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Molecular Basis of Oxidative Stress-Induced Acute Kidney Injury, Kidney Fibrosis, Chronic Kidney Disease, and Clinical Significance of Targeting Reactive Oxygen Species-Regulated Pathways to Treat Kidney Disease

Frontiers in Bioscience-Scholar
Kidney disease is a growing public health problem globally. Multiple or repeated acute injuries to the kidney due to chronic exposure to toxicants promote the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD), an irreversible disease for which there is no ...
Ramji Kandel, Priti Roy, Kamaleshwar P Singh   +2 more
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Corneal myofibroblasts and fibrosis

Experimental Eye Research, 2020
Myofibroblasts are alpha-smooth muscle actin (SMA)+ cells that have a critical role in the corneal stromal response to infections, injuries, and surgeries, and which produce corneal scarring fibrosis when they develop in excess. These contractile and opaque cells-produce large amounts of disordered extracellular matrix (ECM)-and develop from keratocyte-
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Comparison of rat hypertrophic scar models: Caudal tension model with superior pathological consistency

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
This study compared hypertrophic scar (HS) formation in SD rats at ear, back, and tail sites with or without mechanical tension. The ear model healed spontaneously by day 30. Dorsal full‐thickness excision (1 × 8 cm) produced moderate HS. In contrast, the tail tension model showed the greatest scar thickness, fibroblast density, collagen deposition ...
Lingyi Zhan, Hong Xiang, Yaohui Kong, Yunfeng Lei, Shuqi Xiao, Shiqi Chen, Jiaming Li, Ziwei Li, Rui Ni, Dan Peng, Yao Liu   +10 more
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Matrix stiffness-induced myofibroblast differentiation is mediated by intrinsic mechanotransduction.

, 2012
The mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix have recently been shown to promote myofibroblast differentiation and lung fibrosis. Mechanisms by which matrix stiffness regulates myofibroblast differentiation are not fully understood.
Morris, SW, Fiore, VF, Huang, X, Thannickal, VJ, Yang, N, Zhou, Y, Sun, Y, Ding, Q, Barker, TH   +8 more
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Establishment and characterization of mouse lymph node fibrosis models

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
The design of the entire paper. Schematic illustration of four strategies for establishing mouse lymph node (LN) fibrosis models. The study further compares their fibrotic remodeling patterns and immune alterations. Abstract Background Lymph node (LN) fibrosis occurs in a variety of pathological conditions, including HIV infection, obesity, cancer, and
Yaru Niu, Xu Guan, Jian Ma, Xin Zhang, Yihang Shi, Jinzhu Zhang, Leiqiong Gao, Wei Chen, Xishan Wang   +8 more
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Myofibroblasts impair myocardial impulse propagation by heterocellular connexin43 gap-junctional coupling through micropores

Frontiers in Physiology
Aim: Composite population of myofibroblasts (MFs) within myocardial tissue is known to alter impulse propagation, leading to arrhythmias. However, it remains unclear whether and how MFs alter their propagation patterns when contacting cardiomyocytes (CMs)
Yumika Tsuji, Yumika Tsuji, Takehiro Ogata, Kentaro Mochizuki, Shoko Tamura, Yuma Morishita, Tetsuro Takamatsu, Tetsuro Takamatsu, Satoaki Matoba, Hideo Tanaka, Hideo Tanaka   +10 more
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Ac‐SDKP modulates apoptosis via HSP27 and the FAS/FASL and mitochondrial axes

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
Schematic diagram of Ac‐SDKP regulating the FAS/FASL and mitochondrial apoptosis pathways via HSP27. Ac‐SDKP inhibits HSP27 expression, activates the FAS/FASL pathway and Caspase‐3 signaling, increases Caspase‐8 and Caspase‐3 expression, and induces cell apoptosis.
Wenxin Guo, Jinyin Yan, Wenli Li, Jin Wang, Lu Liu, Chengmei Zhang, Wei Cao, Shanshan Yao, Haibo Gong, Yi He, Zihan Zhou, Siyan Chen, Li Feng, Haijing Deng   +13 more
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Control of lung myofibroblast transformation by monovalent ion transporters

, 2019
Myofibroblast differentiation is a critical process in the pathogenesis of tissue fibrosis. We focus our mini-review on recent data showing an implication of monovalent ion transporters in fibroblast to myofibroblast transformation of human lung ...
Larisa V. Smolyaninova, Nickolai O. Dulin, Sergei N. Orlov, Orlov, Sergei N., Dulin, Nickolai O., Smolyaninova, Larisa V.   +5 more
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Cytokine Pathways Driving Diverse Tissue Pathologies in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a complex systemic disorder characterized primarily by articular inflammation and destruction with associated functional loss and reduced quality of life. RA is also associated with extra‐articular disease, such as that of the lung, with potentially devastating clinical consequences. The critical importance of comorbidities,
Aurelie Najm, Lyn D. Ferguson, Iain B. McInnes   +2 more
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Suppression of Cornea Stromal Fibrosis by Vitamin D

Cells
Corneal fibrosis, a significant source of visual impairment, can result from keratocyte-to-myofibroblast transdifferentiation during wound healing. This study investigated the antifibrotic role of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25 Vit D) and the lesser ...
Xiaowen Lu, Zhong Chen, Jerry Lu, Mitchell A. Watsky   +3 more
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