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ArticleJournal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN2018

Mcp1 Promotes Macrophage-Dependent Cyst Expansion in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.

Marcelo F Cassini, Vijayakumar R Kakade, Elizabeth Kurtz, Parker Sulkowski, Peter Glazer, Richard Torres, Stefan Somlo, Lloyd G Cantley

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Article in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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71citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 111 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Targeting Runx1 Slows Cyst Growth in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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  6. Combination siRNA delivery as a therapeutic strategy for ADPKD.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  11. Inhibition of the inflammasome ameliorates orthologous polycystic kidney disease.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  13. Inflammation and Cyst Expansion in Polycystic Kidney Disease.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2025
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  20. Adamts1 and Cyst Expansion in Polycystic Kidney Disease.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marcelo F CassiniSection of Nephrology, Department of Medicine.
Vijayakumar R KakadeSection of Nephrology, Department of Medicine.
Elizabeth KurtzSection of Nephrology, Department of Medicine.
Parker SulkowskiDepartment of Genetics.
Peter GlazerDepartment of Genetics.
Richard TorresDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Stefan SomloSection of Nephrology, Department of Medicine.
Lloyd G CantleySection of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, lloyd.cantley@yale.edu.
Yale University · US

Funding

Renal Physiology and Phenotyping CoreP30DK079310 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI ARONSON, PETER S. · 2008 to 2022
$16.8M
GENETICS AND GENOMICS OF HUMAN DISEASET32HD007149 · NICHD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI James P Noonan · 1985 to 2026
$8.2M
MOUSE MODELS OF POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE (PKD2)R01DK054053 · NIDDK · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI SOMLO, STEFAN · 1998 to 2015
$3.2M
Targeting polycystin-dependent macrophage responses to slow cyst growth in ADPKDR01DK099504 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CANTLEY, LLOYD G · 2014 to 2018
$1.8M
Mechanisms of Polycystin and Cilia Function in ADPKDR01DK100592 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SOMLO, STEFAN · 2013 to 2017
$1.8M
NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD007149NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK079310NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK054053NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK099504NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK100592
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIn patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), most of whom have a mutation in

methodsTo define the role of Mcp1 and macrophages in promoting cyst growth, we used mice with inducible knockout of

resultsIn single-knockout mice, upregulation of

conclusionsMcp1 is upregulated after knockout of

Indexed as

AnimalsChemokine CCL2Disease Models, AnimalDNA DamageHumansKidney TubulesMacrophage ActivationMacrophagesMaleMiceMice, KnockoutPolycystic Kidney, Autosomal DominantPyrrolidinesReactive Oxygen SpeciesReceptors, CCR2TRPP Cation ChannelsCcl2 protein, mouseCcr2 protein, mouseChemokine CCL2INCB3344PyrrolidinesReactive Oxygen SpeciesReceptors, CCR2TRPP Cation ChannelsADPKDgenetic renal diseaseImmunology and pathologykidney tubuleMCP-1polycystic kidney disease

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PMID30209078
PMCPMC6171277
OpenAlexW2890311099

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