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ArticleJournal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN2017

Yap/Taz Deletion in Gli

Ming Liang, Michael Yu, Ruohan Xia, Ke Song, Jun Wang, Jinlong Luo, Guang Chen, Jizhong Cheng

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Article in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 104 papers.

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104citing papers in PubMed
5.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

104 citing papers in PubMed, 149 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ming LiangDepartment of Nephrology, Guangzhou First People's Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China; and.
Michael YuDepartments of Medicine, Section of Nephrology, Selzman Institute for Kidney Health and.
Ruohan XiaDepartments of Medicine, Section of Nephrology, Selzman Institute for Kidney Health and.
Ke SongDepartments of Medicine, Section of Nephrology, Selzman Institute for Kidney Health and.
Jun WangMolecular Physiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Jinlong LuoDepartments of Medicine, Section of Nephrology, Selzman Institute for Kidney Health and.
Guang ChenDepartments of Medicine, Section of Nephrology, Selzman Institute for Kidney Health and.
Jizhong ChengDepartments of Medicine, Section of Nephrology, Selzman Institute for Kidney Health and jizhongc@bcm.edu.
Baylor College of Medicine · USGuangzhou First People's Hospital · CN

Funding

PROTEIN NUTRITION IN EXPERIMENTAL UREMIAR37DK037175 · NIDDK · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI MITCH, WILLIAM EVANS · 2006 to 2015
$3.8M
Nephrology Institutional Training Grant FLSA SupplementT32DK007656 · NIDDK · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI SANDS, JEFF M, WALL, SUSAN MARIE · 1990 to 2020
$3.5M
CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE ADVERSELY INFLUENCES VASCULAR FUNCTIONSR01DK095867 · NIDDK · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI CHENG, JIZHONG · 2013 to 2017
$1.7M
A Hippo-Yap Pathway in Cranial Bone Development and RegenerationK01DE026561 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI WANG, JUN · 2017 to 2021
$739k
NIDCR NIH HHS K01 DE026561NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK095867NIDDK NIH HHS R37 DK037175NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK007656
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In damaged kidneys, increased extracellular matrix (ECM) and tissue stiffness stimulate kidney fibrosis through incompletely characterized molecular mechanisms. The transcriptional coactivators yes-associated protein (Yap) and transcriptional coactivator with PDZ-binding motif (Taz) function as mechanosensors in cancer cells and have been implicated in the regulation of myofibroblasts in the kidney. We hypothesized that the development of kidney fibrosis depends on Yap-induced activation and proliferation of kidney fibroblasts. In mice, Yap expression increased in renal fibroblasts after unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO), in association with worsening of interstitial fibrosis. In cultured fibroblasts, inhibition of Yap/Taz signaling blocked TGF-

Indexed as

MyofibroblastsAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAnimalsCell Cycle ProteinsExtracellular MatrixFibroblastsFibrosisGene DeletionKidneyMaleMicePhosphoproteinsTrans-ActivatorsUreteral ObstructionYAP-Signaling ProteinsZinc Finger Protein GLI1Adaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCell Cycle ProteinsGli1 protein, mousePhosphoproteinsTrans-ActivatorsWwtr1 protein, mouseYap1 protein, mouseYAP-Signaling ProteinsZinc Finger Protein GLI1fibrosisobstructive nephropathystiffnessYAP

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PMID28768710
PMCPMC5661271
OpenAlexW2741303755

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