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    HCK induces macrophage activation to promote renal inflammation and fibrosis via suppression of autophagy

    Renal inflammation and fibrosis are the common pathways leading to progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD). We previously identified hematopoietic cell kinase (HCK) as upregulated in human chronic allograft i...

    Man Chen, Madhav C. Menon, Wenlin Wang, Jia Fu, Zhengzi Yi in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Arctigenin attenuates diabetic kidney disease through the activation of PP2A in podocytes

    Arctigenin (ATG) is a major component of Fructus Arctii, a traditional herbal remedy that reduced proteinuria in diabetic patients. However, whether ATG specifically provides renoprotection in DKD is not known. H...

    Yifei Zhong, Kyung Lee, Yueyi Deng, Yueming Ma, Yi** Chen in Nature Communications (2019)

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    Publisher Correction: Puerarin attenuates diabetic kidney injury through the suppression of NOX4 expression in podocytes

    A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has been fixed in the paper.

    Xueling Li, Wei**g Cai, Kyung Lee, Bohan Liu, Yueyi Deng in Scientific Reports (2018)

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    Publisher Correction: Puerarin attenuates diabetic kidney injury through the suppression of NOX4 expression in podocytes

    A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML version of this paper. The error has been fixed in the paper.

    Xueling Li, Wei**g Cai, Kyung Lee, Bohan Liu, Yueyi Deng in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Puerarin attenuates diabetic kidney injury through the suppression of NOX4 expression in podocytes

    Radix puerariae, a traditional Chinese herbal medication, has been used to treat patients with diabetic nephropathy (DN). Several studies demonstrated that puerarin, the active compound of radix puerariae, reduce...

    Xueling Li, Wei**g Cai, Kyung Lee, Bohan Liu, Yueyi Deng in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Rtn1a-Mediated Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Podocyte Injury and Diabetic Nephropathy

    We previously reported a critical role of reticulon (RTN) 1A in mediating endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in kidney tubular cells and the expression of RTN1A correlates with the renal function and the severi...

    Ying Fan, **g Zhang, Wenzhen **ao, Kyung Lee, Zhengzhe Li in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Role of C/EBP-α in Adriamycin-induced podocyte injury

    Podocytes are terminally differentiated epithelial cells in the kidney glomeruli that act as a key component of the glomerular filtration barrier. Although the inciting injury to the podocyte may vary between ...

    Fang Zhong, Weiming Wang, Kyung Lee, John Cijiang He, Nan Chen in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Erratum: RTN1 mediates progression of kidney disease by inducing ER stress

    Nature Communications 6: Article number: 7841 (2015); Published: 31 July 2015; Updated: 22 October 2015. The original version of the Supplementary Information attached to this Article did not contain Supplemen...

    Ying Fan, Wenzhen **ao, Zhengzhe Li, Xuezhu Li, Peter Y. Chuang in Nature Communications (2015)

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    RTN1 mediates progression of kidney disease by inducing ER stress

    Identification of new biomarkers and drug targets for chronic kidney disease (CKD) is required for the development of more effective therapy. Here we report an association between expression of reticulon 1 (RT...

    Ying Fan, Wenzhen **ao, Zhengzhe Li, Xuezhu Li, Peter Y. Chuang in Nature Communications (2015)