ReviewKidney international2017
The third path of tubulointerstitial fibrosis: aberrant endothelial secretome.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Serum Total Bilirubin and Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease and Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Endothelial prolyl hydroxylase 3 mitigates maladaptive inflammation to promote post-ischemic kidney repair.Kidney international · 2026Article
- Spatiotemporal Control of Intercellular Crosstalk: A New Therapeutic Paradigm for Halting Acute Kidney Injury to Chronic Kidney Disease Transition.Biomolecules · 2026Review
- MicroRNA Regulation in Kidney Interstitial Fibrosis.Epigenomes · 2026Review
- Exposure of endothelial cells to doxorubicin inhibits extracellular matrix production by dermal fibroblasts in a paracrine manner.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2026Article
- Endothelial cells regulate mesangial cells through the Dll4/Notch3 axis to participate in glomerular injury in lupus nephritis.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Critical role of transcription factor SOX4 in tubular epithelial cell dedifferentiation and fibroblast activation during kidney fibrosis.Kidney international · 2026Article
- Submacular tissue repair and fibrosis in neovascular macular degeneration: A predictable outcome secondary to a chronic age-related endotheliopathy.Molecular vision · 2026Review
- G protein-coupled receptor-mediated renal fibrosis: a key focus on kidney disease drug development.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
- Permissive role of vascular endothelium in fibrosis: focus on the kidney.American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2024Review
- The role of cellular crosstalk in the progression of diabetic nephropathy.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Review
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- Ion channels as a therapeutic target for renal fibrosis.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Review
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- Systemic sclerosis biomarkers detection in the secretome of TGFβ1-activated primary human lung fibroblasts.Journal of proteomics · 2021Article
- Canonical Secretomes, Innate Immune Caspase-1-, 4/11-Gasdermin D Non-Canonical Secretomes and Exosomes May Contribute to Maintain Treg-Ness for Treg Immunosuppression, Tissue Repair and Modulate Anti-Tumor ImmunityFrontiers in immunology · 2021Article
- Hyperlipidemia May Synergize with Hypomethylation in Establishing Trained Immunity and Promoting Inflammation in NASH and NAFLD.Journal of immunology research · 2021Article
- Sirtuin 1 and endothelial glycocalyx.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2020Review
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Abstract
The secretome, defined as a portion of proteins secreted by specific cells to the extracellular space, secures a proper microenvironmental niche not only for the donor cells, but also for the neighboring cells, thus maintaining tissue homeostasis. Communication via secretory products exists between endothelial cells and fibroblasts, and this local mechanism maintains the viability and density of each compartment. Endothelial dysfunction, apart from obvious cell-autonomous defects, leads to the aberrant secretome, which predisposes fibroblasts to acquire a myofibroblastic fibrogenic phenotype. In our recent profiling of the secretome of such dysfunctional profibrogenic renal microvascular endothelial cells, we identified unique profibrogenic signatures, among which we detected ligands of Notch and Wnt-β-catenin pathways. Here, we stress the role of reprogramming cues in the immediate microenvironment of (myo)fibroblasts and the contribution of the endothelial secretome to the panoply of instructive signals in the vicinity of fibroblasts. We hope that this brief overview of endothelial-fibroblast communication in health and disease will lead to eventual unbiased proteomic mapping of individual secretomes of glomerular and tubular epithelial cells, pericytes, and podocytes through reductionist approaches to allow for the synthetic creation of a complex network of secretomic signals acting as reprogramming factors on individual cell types in the kidney. Knowledge of profibrogenic and antifibrogenic signatures in the secretome may garner future therapeutic efforts.
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