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ArticleScientific reports2022

Rac1 deficiency impairs postnatal development of the renal papilla.

Nobuhiro Ayuzawa, Mitsuhiro Nishimoto, Wakako Kawarazaki, Shigeyoshi Oba, Takeshi Marumo, Atsu Aiba, Toshiro Fujita

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Rac1 promotes proximal tubule kidney repair by coupling the actin cytoskeleton to mitochondrial function.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  3. Integrins in the kidney - beyond the matrix.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2025
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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.

Nobuhiro AyuzawaDivision of Clinical Epigenetics, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-Ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan. ayuzawa-tky@umin.ac.jp.
Mitsuhiro NishimotoDivision of Clinical Epigenetics, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-Ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan.
Wakako KawarazakiDivision of Clinical Epigenetics, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-Ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan.
Shigeyoshi ObaDivision of Clinical Epigenetics, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-Ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan.
Takeshi MarumoDivision of Clinical Epigenetics, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-Ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan.
Atsu AibaLaboratory of Animal Resources, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Toshiro FujitaDivision of Clinical Epigenetics, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-Ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan. Toshiro.FUJITA@rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
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Funding

JSPS KAKENHI JP15H05788JSPS KAKENHI JP26860546
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Development of the renal medulla continues after birth to form mature renal papilla and obtain urine-concentrating ability. Here, we found that a small GTPase, Rac1, plays a critical role in the postnatal development of renal papilla. Mice with distal tubule-specific deletion of Rac1 reached adulthood but showed polydipsia and polyuria with an impaired ability to concentrate urine. The elongation of renal papilla that occurs in the first weeks after birth was impaired in the Rac1-deficient infants, resulting in shortening and damage of the renal papilla. Moreover, the osmoprotective signaling mediated by nuclear factor of activated T cells 5, which is a key molecule of osmotic response to osmotic stress in renal medulla, was significantly impaired in the kidneys of the Rac1-deficient infants. These results demonstrate that Rac1 plays an important role in the development of renal papilla in the postnatal period, and suggested a potential link between Rac1 and osmotic response.

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KidneyKidney MedullaAnimalsMiceSignal Transduction

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PMID36434091
PMCPMC9700760
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