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ReviewPediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)2012

Tubulointerstitial injury and the progression of chronic kidney disease.

Kavita S Hodgkins, H William Schnaper

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Review in Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 123 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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123citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

123 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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63 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kavita S HodgkinsDivision of Kidney Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA. khodgkins@childrensmemorial.org
H William Schnaper

Funding

MULTIDISCIPLINARY CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE (MCTS) PROGRAM (UL1)UL1RR025741 · NCRR · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI GREENLAND, PHILIP · 2008 to 2011
$24.7M
Signaling Pathways in Renal FibrogenesisR01DK049362 · NIDDK · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI SCHNAPER, H WILLIAM · 1994 to 2014
$4.0M
Adaptor Molecules in TGF-beta SignalingR01DK075663 · NIDDK · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI SCHNAPER, H WILLIAM · 2008 to 2012
$1.5M
NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR025741NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK049362NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK075663
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In chronic kidney disease (CKD), once injury from any number of disease processes reaches a threshold, there follows an apparently irreversible course toward decline in kidney function. The tubulointerstitium may play a key role in this common progression pathway. Direct injury, high metabolic demands, or stimuli from various other forms of renal dysfunction activate tubular cells. These, in turn, interact with interstitial tissue elements and inflammatory cells, causing further pathologic changes in the renal parenchyma. The tissue response to these changes thus generates a feed-forward loop of kidney injury and progressive loss of function. This article reviews the mechanisms of this negative cycle mediating CKD.

Indexed as

Cell CommunicationChronic DiseaseDisease ProgressionFeedback, PhysiologicalFibrosisHumansKidney DiseasesKidney TubulesNephritis, InterstitialSignal Transduction

Identifiers

PMID21947270
PMCPMC3337413

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