Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21903675›Full record

ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2011

Renal collecting system growth and function depend upon embryonic γ1 laminin expression.

Dong-Hua Yang, Karen K McKee, Zu-Lin Chen, Glenda Mernaugh, Sidney Strickland, Roy Zent, Peter D Yurchenco

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Basement Membranes in Development and Disease.Current topics in developmental biology · 2018
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  8. Laminin: loss-of-function studies.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dong-Hua YangDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Karen K McKee
Zu-Lin Chen
Glenda Mernaugh
Sidney Strickland
Roy Zent
Peter D Yurchenco
Johnson University · USRockefeller University · US

Funding

TYPE IV COLLAGEN, LAMININS, AND INTEGRINS IN NORMAL AND DISEASED GLOMERULIP01DK065123 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI HUDSON, BILLY GERALD · 2003 to 2012
$12.9M
Basement Membrane Self-assembly and StructureR37DK036425 · NIDDK · UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH · PI YURCHENCO, PETER DANA · 2003 to 2012
$2.9M
Betal Integrin and Renal TubulogenesisR01DK075594 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI ZENT, ROY · 2008 to 2015
$2.6M
NIDDK NIH HHS P01 DK065123NIDDK NIH HHS R01-DK065123NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK075594NIDDK NIH HHS R01-DK075594NIDDK NIH HHS R01-DK65123NIDDK NIH HHS R37 DK036425NIDDK NIH HHS R37-DK36425
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In order to understand the functions of laminins in the renal collecting system, the Lamc1 gene was inactivated in the developing mouse ureteric bud (UB). Embryos bearing null alleles exhibited laminin deficiency prior to mesenchymal tubular induction and either failed to develop a UB with involution of the mesenchyme, or developed small kidneys with decreased proliferation and branching, delayed renal vesicle formation and postnatal emergence of a water transport deficit. Embryonic day 12.5 kidneys revealed an almost complete absence of basement membrane proteins and reduced levels of α6 integrin and FGF2. mRNA levels for fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) and mediators of the GDNF/RET and WNT11 signaling pathway were also decreased. Furthermore, collecting duct cells derived from laminin-deficient kidneys and grown in collagen gels were found to proliferate and branch slowly. The laminin-deficient cells exhibited decreased activation of growth factor- and integrin-dependent pathways, whereas heparin lyase-treated and β1 integrin-null cells exhibited more selective decreases. Collectively, these data support a requirement of γ1 laminins for assembly of the collecting duct system basement membrane, in which immobilized ligands act as solid-phase agonists to promote branching morphogenesis, growth and water transport functions.

Indexed as

AnimalsBasement MembraneDiabetes InsipidusFemaleGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGrowth SubstancesHeparan SulfateHydronephrosisIntegrin beta1Kidney Tubules, CollectingLamininMaleMesodermMiceMice, 129 StrainMice, Inbred C57BLGrowth SubstancesHeparan SulfateIntegrin beta1Lamininlaminin gamma 1

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PMID21903675
PMCPMC3177319
OpenAlexW2029470774

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