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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

Urinary Exosomal MicroRNA Signatures in Nephrotic, Biopsy-Proven Diabetic Nephropathy.

Wen-Chin Lee, Lung-Chih Li, Hwee-Yeong Ng, Pei-Ting Lin, Terry Ting-Yu Chiou, Wei-Hung Kuo, Chien-Te Lee

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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25citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Characterizing Circulating microRNA Signatures of Type 2 Diabetes Subtypes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  9. Research progress on small extracellular vesicles in diabetic nephropathy.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025
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  14. Epsin1-mediated exosomal sorting of Dll4 modulates the tubular-macrophage crosstalk in diabetic nephropathy.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2023
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  15. Exosomes in Diabetic Kidney Disease.Kidney diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wen-Chin LeeDivision of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung 83301, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-6172-1483
Lung-Chih LiDivision of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung 83301, Taiwan.
Hwee-Yeong NgDivision of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung 83301, Taiwan.
Pei-Ting LinDivision of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung 83301, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-8474-4976
Terry Ting-Yu ChiouDivision of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung 83301, Taiwan.
Wei-Hung KuoDivision of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung 83301, Taiwan.
Chien-Te LeeDivision of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung 83301, Taiwan.
Chang Gung University · TW

Funding

Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital CORPG8F1011, CORPG8F1012, and CMRPG8J0621
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Elucidating the mechanisms underlying proteinuria in DKD is crucial because it is a common problem in DKD-related mortality and morbidity. MicroRNAs (miRs) associated with DKD have been detected in experimental diabetes models and in patients with both diabetes and CKD. Here, we aimed to investigate pathologic miRs in diabetic nephropathy (DN) by prospectively following six nephrotic, biopsy-proven isolated DN patients (enrolled between August 2015 and July 2017) for one year. The urinary exosomes were isolated at the time of the biopsy and the contained miRs were analyzed by next-generation sequencing. The results were compared to the control group, composed of age-, gender-, and CKD stage-matched patients with proteinuric CKD who did not present diabetes. Among the 72 identified miRs, we investigated eight (miR-188-5p, miR-150-3p, miR-760, miR-3677-3p, miR-548ah-3p, miR-548p, miR-320e, and miR-23c) exhibiting the strongest upregulation (13-15 fold) and two (miR-133a-3p and miR-153-3p) with the strongest downregulation (7-9 fold). The functional analysis of these miRs showed that they were involved in known and novel pathways of DN, supporting their pathologic roles. The bioinformatics-based prediction of the target genes of these miRs will inspire future research on the mechanisms underlying DN pathogenesis.

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diabetic nephropathymicroRNAnephrotic

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PMID32340338
PMCPMC7231152
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