Project description:The impact of canagliflozin on gene expression changes was investigated in human renal proximal tubular cells (HK2) after pre-treatment with high glucose.
Project description:Shiga toxin type 2 (Stx2) from Escherichia coli is thought to be a main factor to casue renal dysfunction in Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) infection. The renal dysfunction caused by the proximal tubular defects can be detected in the earlier EHEC infection. However, the precise information of gene expression from proximal tubular epithelial cells has yet to be clarified. We performed microarray experiments using Stx2-injected mouse kidney and Stx2-treated human renal proximal tubular epithelial cells (RPTEC), and extracted common genes that were differentially expressed.
Project description:This experiment is designed to investigate common transcriptional alterations in renal proximal tubular cell cultures due to nephrotoxin exposure.
Project description:To understand the transcription regulation of renal tubular epithelial cells under stimuli, here we investigated transcriptome, chromatin accessibility and their dynamics through RNA-seq and ATAC-seq under the three types of treatments. We identified genome-wide functional regions which coordinated transcription regulation in human renal proximal tubule epithelial cells (HK2). Our results provide a cell type-specific landscape of chromatin dynamics under stimuli and discovered an important TF in renal tubular epithelial cells that mediated genomic response to different injury stimuli.
Project description:To further explore differentially expressed genes in high glucose-induced renal tubular fibrosis cells, we used whole transcriptome microarray expression profiling as a discovery platform to identify genes with a potential role in the high glucose-induced renal fibrosis process. Low-glucose stimulation (5.5 mM glucose) and high-glucose stimulation (25 mM glucose) of human renal tubular HK2 cells identified a consensus profile of 644 highly expressed genes to distinguish high-glucose fibrotic renal tubules from control samples.
Project description:Kidney damage involves the progressive and inexorable destruction of tubular and glomerular system. However, it is known that the patients survive AKI often recover renal structure and function. Correspondingly, previous studies demonstrated tubular regeneration in mice after massive kidney injury and linked mouse Sox9+ renal progenitor cells to this process. Here we show that renal progenitor cells can be cloned from renal needle biopsy sample of CKD patients. Progenitor cells can readily assembly into “kidney organoids” expressing proximal/distal tubular cell markers in 3D culture.
Project description:The present study aims to assess the potential changes in microRNAs of proximal renal tubular cells in response to the adhesion of calcium oxalate monohydrate (COM) crystals.
Project description:The present study aims to assess the potential changes in microRNAs of proximal renal tubular cells in response to the adhesion of calcium oxalate monohydrate (COM) crystals. microRNA microarray was applied to evaluate the expression of HK-2 cells exposed to COM crystals for 0 and 24 hours.