Assessment of In Vivo Kidney Cell Death: Glomerular Injury
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Contributors
Abstract
The glomerulus functions as the filtration unit of the kidney. The mesangial, endothelial, and podocyte cells of the glomerulus exhibit the three clinically most important cell types, which are involved in diverse pathologic processes. Cell death has hardly been investigated in these cells but may be of critical importance to the pathogenesis of nephrotic syndrome, nephritic syndrome, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), mesangial proliferation, and thrombonic microangiopathy (which involves dysfunction and death of glomerular endothelial cells). The complexity of the glomerulus is frequently affected in autoimmune disorders, which may elicit cell death in mesangial cells and glomerular endothelia. Artificial antisera are used to induce anti-mesangial cell serum-induced mesangiolysis and selective endothelial cell injury, respectively. Genetic variations result in loss of function of podocytes and nephrotic syndrome, which may encompass similar cell death mechanisms as the ones that are observed in the model of secondary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). The following protocols describe our current arsenal to target glomerular cells in vivo.
Details
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Programmed Necrosis |
Editors | Adrian T. Ting |
Place of Publication | Berlin |
Pages | 145-151 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Publication series
Series | Methods in Molecular Biology |
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Volume | 1857 |
ISSN | 1064-3745 |
External IDs
PubMed | 30136238 |
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Scopus | 85052406449 |
ORCID | /0000-0003-2739-345X/work/146643579 |
ORCID | /0000-0001-6287-9725/work/146644982 |
ORCID | /0000-0002-9728-1413/work/146646215 |
Keywords
Keywords
- Animals, Cell Death, Disease Models, Animal, Endothelium, Vascular/physiopathology, Glomerular Mesangium/physiopathology, Glomerulosclerosis, Focal Segmental/physiopathology, Kidney Glomerulus/pathology, Male, Mice