The Changing Landscape of Renal Inflammation
Thomas Ernandez, Tanya Norton Mayadas, Thomas Ernandez, Tanya Norton Mayadas
Abstract
Kidney inflammation is a major contributor to progressive renal injury, leading to glomerulonephritis (GN) and chronic kidney disease. We review recent advances in our understanding of leukocyte accumulation in the kidney, emphasizing key chemokines involved in GN. We discuss features of renal inflammation such as the evolving concept of immune cell plasticity. We also describe certain aspects of organ-specific tissue microenvironments in shaping immune cell responses, as well as the current knowledge of how regulatory T lymphocytes impact on other immune effector cell populations to control inflammation. It is clear that present and future research in these areas may contribute to the development of novel targeted therapeutics, with the hope of alleviating the burden of end-stage renal disease (ESRD).
Keywords: chemokines; effector immune cells; environmental triggers; glomerulus; leukocyte recruitment; local inflammation; phenotype stability; regulatory immune cells.
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