Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Autophagy in acute kidney injury and maladaptive kidney repair

Autophagy in acute kidney injury and maladaptive kidney repair Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a major renal disease characterized by a sudden decrease in kidney function. After AKI, the kidney has the ability to repair, but if the initial injury is severe the repair may be incomplete or maladaptive and result in chronic kidney problems. Autophagy is a highly conserved pathway to deliver intracellular contents to lysosomes for degradation. Autophagy plays an important role in maintaining renal function and is involved in the pathogenesis of renal diseases. Autophagy is activated in various forms of AKI and acts as a defense mechanism against kidney cell injury and death. After AKI, autophagy is maintained at a relatively high level in kidney tubule cells during maladaptive kidney repair but the role of autophagy in maladaptive kidney repair has been controversial. Nonetheless, recent studies have demonstrated that autophagy may contribute to maladaptive kidney repair after AKI by inducing tubular degeneration and promoting a profibrotic phenotype in renal tubule cells. In this review, we analyze the role and regulation of autophagy in kidney injury and repair and discuss the therapeutic strategies by targeting autophagy. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Burns & Trauma Oxford University Press

Autophagy in acute kidney injury and maladaptive kidney repair

Download PDF
9 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/oxford-university-press/autophagy-in-acute-kidney-injury-and-maladaptive-kidney-repair-i6i6RS4Wjo

References (161)

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press.
eISSN
2321-3876
DOI
10.1093/burnst/tkac059
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a major renal disease characterized by a sudden decrease in kidney function. After AKI, the kidney has the ability to repair, but if the initial injury is severe the repair may be incomplete or maladaptive and result in chronic kidney problems. Autophagy is a highly conserved pathway to deliver intracellular contents to lysosomes for degradation. Autophagy plays an important role in maintaining renal function and is involved in the pathogenesis of renal diseases. Autophagy is activated in various forms of AKI and acts as a defense mechanism against kidney cell injury and death. After AKI, autophagy is maintained at a relatively high level in kidney tubule cells during maladaptive kidney repair but the role of autophagy in maladaptive kidney repair has been controversial. Nonetheless, recent studies have demonstrated that autophagy may contribute to maladaptive kidney repair after AKI by inducing tubular degeneration and promoting a profibrotic phenotype in renal tubule cells. In this review, we analyze the role and regulation of autophagy in kidney injury and repair and discuss the therapeutic strategies by targeting autophagy.

Journal

Burns & Trauma – Oxford University Press

Published: Jan 22, 2023

Keywords: Autophagy; Acute kidney injury; Maladaptive repair; Fibrosis; Chronic kidney disease

There are no references for this article.