Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of urine and blood samples from patients with diabetic chronic kidney disease. The Illumina Infinium MethylationEPIC BeadChip kit was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 850,000 CpGs. Samples included two urine and four buffy coat samples from adults with diabetic chronic kidney disease.
Project description:Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage chronic kidney disease (ESKD). Despite the usefulness of transplantation as replacement therapy, long-term graft survival represents a major challenge for transplant immunology. Although nowadays there has been an advance in understanding immunological mechanisms mediating rejection, and the improvement of immunomodulation therapies, there are still underlying molecular processes marking an important variability among patients, and presumably influencing allograft rejection. With our analysis we explored differences in gene expression by Next Generation Sequencing implementing RNA-Seq in biopsies, blood and urine from kidney transplant patients with acute and chronic rejection. For this, we performed an intra-outcome analysis simultaneously in acute and chronic rejection, with which we sought: 1. To identify differences in gene expression between peripheral blood vs renal tissue and peripheral blood vs urine in acute rejection and chronic rejection; 2. To identify the level of agreement in gene expression between renal tissue and urine in acute rejection and chronic rejection and 3. To identify genes and biological processes associated with acute rejection and chronic rejection that could be potentially detected in blood, and simultaneously in urine and biopsy in acute rejection and in chronic rejection.
Project description:Understanding gut bacterial composition and proteome changes in patients with early-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD) could lead to better methods of controlling the disease progression. Here, we investigated the gut microbiome and microbial functions in patients with S. stercoralis infection (strongyloidiasis) and early-stage CKD.
2024-09-07 | PXD045189 | JPOST Repository
Project description:Oral microbiome analysis of young patients with chronic kidney disease
Project description:Urinary proteomics studies have primarily focused on identifying markers of chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression. Here, we aimed to specify CKD-related injury markers through proteomics analysis in urine of patients with CKD. Label-free quantitative proteomics analysis based on liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry was performed on urine samples obtained from 6, 9, 11, and 10 patients in health control, CKD stage 1, 3 and 5, respectively.
Project description:Urinary proteomics studies have primarily focused on identifying markers of chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression. Here, we aimed to specify CKD-related injury markers through proteomics analysis in urine of patients with CKD. Label-free quantitative proteomics analysis based on liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry was performed on urine samples obtained from 6, 9, 11, and 10 patients in health control, CKD stage 1, 3 and 5, respectively.
Project description:Controlling the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) at an early stage is critical for reducing disease severity. A cross-sectional study of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients at all stages with S. stercoralis infection found that helminth infection caused gut dysbiosis, which may be involved in CKD progression. Because of the variation of gut microbiome results with helminth infection, the cross-sectional study of 16S rRNA sequencing, therefore, is insufficient to draw valid conclusions and correct the effects of S. stercoralis on the early stages of CKD. Combination with other omics approach is warrant to be better understand the disease.
Project description:Congenital obstructive nephropathy (CON) is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in children. CON is a complex disease process involving pathological changes in kidney development and function that occur as a result of obstructed antegrade urine flow beginning in utero. The megabladder (mgb-/-) mouse is an animal model of CON that develops kidney disease secondary to a bladder-specific defect in smooth muscle development. Expression levels of specific microRNAs were compared by microarray analysis on the Agilent platform and by quantitative PCR (qPCR) of kidney samples from wild type and mgb-/- mice.
Project description:Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is the gradual, asymptomatic loss of kidney function and current tests only identify it when significant loss has already happened. Using RNA sequencing in a mouse model of folic acid (FA) induced nephropathy, here we report the identification of 10 genes that track kidney fibrosis development, the common pathological finding in CKD patients. The gene expression of all 10 candidates was confirmed to be significantly high (~ 10-150 fold) in three well-established and mechanistically distinct mouse models of kidney fibrosis. Protein expression was also high in the FA model as well as patients with biopsy-proven kidney fibrosis. The specificity of these 10 candidates for kidney fibrosis was demonstrated by showing a very modest (~ 2-5 fold) increase in the mouse models of acute kidney injury as well as following liver fibrosis in mice and humans. Using targeted selected reaction monitoring mass spectrometry (SRM-MS) we found that 3 out of 10, cadherin 11 (CDH11), mannose receptor C1 (MRC1), phospholipid transfer protein (PLTP), are detectable in human urine. Furthermore, the levels of CDH11 and MRC1 are able to distinguish patients with chronic kidney disease from healthy individuals (n = 78, p<0.01). In summary, we report the identification of CDH11 and MRC1 as novel non-invasive biomarkers of CKD. mRNA sequencing of mouse kidney before and at various time points (1,2,3,7 & 14 days) after intraperitoneal treatment with folic acid.