Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23029177›Full record

ArticlePloS one2012

NaCl potentiates human fibrocyte differentiation.

Nehemiah Cox, Darrell Pilling, Richard H Gomer

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Article in PloS one, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. New approaches to modulating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2013
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  19. Peritoneal Dialysis Fluid and Some of Its Components Potentiate Fibrocyte Differentiation.Peritoneal dialysis international : journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nehemiah CoxDepartment of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
Darrell Pilling
Richard H Gomer
Texas A&M University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Excessive NaCl intake is associated with a variety of fibrosing diseases such as renal and cardiac fibrosis. This association has been attributed to increased blood pressure as the result of high NaCl intake. However, studies in patients with high NaCl intake and fibrosis reveal a connection between NaCl intake and fibrosis that is independent of blood pressure. We find that increasing the extracellular concentration of NaCl to levels that may occur in human blood after high-salt intake can potentiate, in serum-free culture conditions, the differentiation of freshly-isolated human monocytes into fibroblast-like cells called fibrocytes. NaCl affects the monocytes directly during their adhesion. Potassium chloride and sodium nitrate also potentiate fibrocyte differentiation. The plasma protein Serum Amyloid P (SAP) inhibits fibrocyte differentiation. High levels of extracellular NaCl change the SAP Hill coefficient from 1.7 to 0.8, and cause a four-fold increase in the concentration of SAP needed to inhibit fibrocyte differentiation by 95%. Together, our data suggest that NaCl potentiates fibrocyte differentiation. NaCl-increased fibrocyte differentiation may thus contribute to NaCl-increased renal and cardiac fibrosis.

Indexed as

Cell DifferentiationGluconatesHumansMonocytesNitratesSerum Amyloid P-ComponentSodium ChlorideGluconatesgluconic acidNitratesSerum Amyloid P-ComponentSodium Chloridesodium nitrate

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PMID23029177
PMCPMC3445484
OpenAlexW2059526701

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