Article
Calcineurin inhibition deactivates pyruvate dehydrogenase and induces proximal tubule cell metabolic dysfunction, causing profibrotic phenotype
2024-11-21
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) are indispensable immunosuppressants for transplant recipients and patients with autoimmune diseases, but chronic use causes nephrotoxicity, including kidney fibrosis. Why inhibiting calcineurin, a serine/threonine phosphatase, causes kidney fibrosis remains unknown. We performed single-nucleus RNA sequencing of the kidney from a chronic CNI nephrotoxicity mouse mod...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a675eb22-1159-583d-9429-28dd0b104d73
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.11.20.624584
