ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2020
Proteomic Characterization of Urinary Extracellular Vesicles from Kidney-Transplanted Patients Treated with Calcineurin Inhibitors.
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- Urinary Extracellular Vesicles Are a Novel Tool to Monitor Allograft Function in Kidney Transplantation: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Pooled it
- Urinary extracellular vesicles: A position paper by the Urine Task Force of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles.Journal of extracellular vesicles · 2021Guideline
- The dual role of exosomes in renal fibrosis and their potential for clinical translational applications.Renal failure · 2026Review
- Renal allograft interstitial fibrosis: multicellular interactions and therapeutic strategies.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Extracellular Vesicles and Immune Activation in Solid Organ Transplantation: The Impact of Immunosuppression.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2025Review
- Kidney-derived Urinary Extracellular Vesicles are Increased During Acute Rejection after Kidney Transplantation: A Pilot Study.Transplantation direct · 2025Article
- Biomarker-Development Proteomics in Kidney Transplantation: An Updated Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Extracellular Vesicles: The Future of Diagnosis in Solid Organ Transplantation?International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Urinary Extracellular Vesicles in Chronic Kidney Disease: From Bench to Bedside?Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Physiopathological role of extracellular vesicles in alloimmunity and kidney transplantation and their use as biomarkers.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Review
- Exosomal proteomics in kidney disease: From technical approaches to clinical applications.Journal of food and drug analysis · 2022Review
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Abstract
Use of immunosuppressive drugs is still unavoidable in kidney-transplanted patients. Since their discovery, calcineurin inhibitors (CNI) have been considered the first-line immunosuppressive agents, in spite of their known nephrotoxicity. Chronic CNI toxicity (CNIT) may lead to kidney fibrosis, a threatening scenario for graft survival. However, there is still controversy regarding CNIT diagnosis, monitoring and therapeutic management, and their specific effects at the molecular level are not fully known. Aiming to better characterize CNIT patients, in the present study, we collected urine from kidney-transplanted patients treated with CNI who (i) had a normal kidney function, (ii) suffered CNIT, or (iii) presented interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (IFTA). Urinary extracellular vesicles (uEV) were enriched and the proteome was analyzed to get insight into changes happening during CNI. Members of the uroplakin and plakin families were significantly upregulated in the CNIT group, suggesting an important role in CNIT processes. Although biomarkers cannot be asserted from this single pilot study, our results evidence the potential of uEV as a source of non-invasive protein biomarkers for a better detection and monitoring of this renal alteration in kidney-transplanted patients.
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