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Epithelial-mesenchymal crosstalk alteration in kidney fibrosis
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Prunotto, Marco
Budd, David C
Gabbiani, Giulio
Meier, Matthias
Formentini, Ivan
Hartmann, Guido
Pomposiello, Silvia
Moll, Solange
Published in The Journal of Pathology. 2012, vol. 228, no. 2, p. 131-47
Abstract The incidence of chronic kidney diseases (CKD) is constantly rising, reaching epidemic proportions in the western world and leading to an enormous threat, even to modern health-care systems, in industrialized countries. Therapies of CKD have greatly improved following the introduction of drugs targeting the renin-angiotensin system (RAAS) but even this refined pharmacological approach has failed to stop progression to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in many individuals. In vitro historical data and recent new findings have suggested that progression of renal fibrosis might occur as a result of an altered tubulo-interstitial microenvironment and, more specifically, as a result of an altered epithelial-mesenchymal crosstalk. Here we the review biological findings that support the hypothesis of an altered cellular crosstalk in an injured local tubulo-interstitial microenvironment leading to renal disease progression. Copyright © 2012 Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords Cell Communication/physiology — Cellular Microenvironment — Disease Progression — Epithelial Cells/pathology — Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition/physiology — Feedback, Physiological/physiology — Fibrosis — Humans — Kidney/pathology — Kidney Failure, Chronic/diagnosis/physiopathology — Kidney Tubules/pathology — Mesoderm/pathology — Renin-Angiotensin System/physiology
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PMID: 22570261
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine fondamentale / Département de pathologie et immunologie
Research group Analyse protéomique et Analyse génomique des maladies rénales (659)
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(ISO format) 		PRUNOTTO, Marco et al. Epithelial-mesenchymal crosstalk alteration in kidney fibrosis. In: The Journal of Pathology, 2012, vol. 228, n° 2, p. 131-47. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:28456

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