ReviewFrontiers in immunology2022
Strategies Towards Antigen-Specific Treatments for Membranous Nephropathy.
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- Evaluating rituximab against cyclophosphamide or cyclosporine in idiopathic membranous nephropathy: a meta-analysis.European journal of medical research · 2025Pooled it
- A single-center, open label, randomized, controlled study of hydroxychloroquine sulfate in the treatment of low risk PLABMC nephrology · 2024Trial
- Treatment strategies for rituximab-resistant primary membranous nephropathy: from resistance mechanisms to emerging therapies.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Short-term clinical remission rates and adverse reactions of rituximab compared to cyclosporine in patients with refractory membranous nephropathy (MN).American journal of translational research · 2026Article
- The lipid-podocyte axis: emerging clues in membranous nephropathy pathogenesis.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- A Phenome-Wide Association and Mendelian Randomization Study of Genetically Predicted Membranous Nephropathy with Multiple Diseases.Kidney & blood pressure research · 2026Article
- Research progress on chimeric antigen receptor-based immunotherapy against autoimmune diseases.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025Review
- Clinical evaluation of strengthening spleen and draining dampness in the treatment of idiopathic membranous nephropathy: a retrospective 10-year follow-up study.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2025Article
- Newer B-cell and plasma-cell targeted treatments for rituximab-resistant patients with membranous nephropathy.Clinical kidney journal · 2025Review
- Therapeutic targets in membranous nephropathy: plasma cells and complement.Clinical kidney journal · 2024Review
- A new era in the science and care of kidney diseases.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2024Review
- Membranous nephropathy: pathogenesis and treatments.MedComm · 2024Review
- Current progress in CAR-based therapy for kidney disease.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
- Bibliometric and visual analysis of membranous nephropathy literature from 2010 to 2023.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Review
- Hope or hype? Clinicians' dilemma in the era of ever-expanding antigens in membranous nephropathy.Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association · 2023Article
- Future landscape for the management of membranous nephropathy.Clinical kidney journal · 2023Review
- A meta-analysis on the efficacy and safety of obinuzumab for membranous nephropathy.Sage open chronic diseaseArticle
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Abstract
Membranous nephropathy (MN) is a rare but potentially severe autoimmune disease and a major cause of nephrotic syndrome in adults. Traditional treatments for patients with MN include steroids with alkylating agents such as cyclophosphamide or calcineurin inhibitors such as cyclosporine, which have an undesirable side effect profile. Newer therapies like rituximab, although superior to cyclosporine in maintaining disease remission, do not only affect pathogenic B or plasma cells, but also inhibit the production of protective antibodies and therefore the ability to fend off foreign organisms and to respond to vaccination. These are undesired effects of general B or plasma cell-targeted treatments. The discovery of several autoantigens in patients with MN offers the great opportunity for more specific treatment approaches. Indeed, such treatments were recently developed for other autoimmune diseases and tested in different preclinical models, and some are about to jump to clinical practice. As such treatments have enormous potential to enhance specificity, efficacy and compatibility also for MN, we will discuss two promising strategies in this perspective: The elimination of pathogenic antibodies through endogenous degradation systems and the depletion of pathogenic B cells through chimeric autoantibody receptor T cells.
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