Molecular Signatures of Diabetic Kidney Disease Hiding in a Patient with Hypertension-Related Kidney Disease: A Clinical Pathologic Molecular Correlation.
Jiten PatelJose R TorrealbaEmilio D PoggioJack BebiakCharles E AlpersStephanie M GrewenowRobert D TotoMichael T Eadonnull nullPublished in: Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN (2021)
The Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) seeks to establish a molecular atlas of the kidney in health and disease and improve our understanding of the molecular drivers of CKD and AKI. Herein, we describe the case of a 66-year-old woman with CKD who underwent a protocol KPMP kidney biopsy. Her clinical history included well-controlled diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and proteinuria. The patient's histopathology was consistent with modest hypertension-related kidney injury, without overt diabetic kidney disease. Transcriptomic signatures of the glomerulus, interstitium, and tubular subsegments were obtained from laser microdissected tissue. The molecular signatures that were uncovered revealed evidence of early diabetic kidney disease adaptation and ongoing active tubular injury with enriched pathways related to mesangial cell hypertrophy, glycosaminoglycan biosynthesis, and apoptosis. Molecular evidence of diabetic kidney disease was found across the nephron. Novel molecular assays can supplement and enrich the histopathologic diagnosis obtained from a kidney biopsy.
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- blood pressure
- type diabetes
- single cell
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- chronic kidney disease
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- stem cells
- wound healing
- genome wide
- cell proliferation
- adipose tissue
- endoplasmic reticulum stress
- gene expression
- rna seq
- high glucose
- mass spectrometry
- insulin resistance
- diabetic nephropathy
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- endothelial cells
- cell cycle arrest
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