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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2023

Poroelastic modelling reveals the cooperation between two mechanisms for albuminuria.

Zelai Xu, Pengtao Yue, James J Feng

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Zelai XuDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z2.ORCID 0000-0001-9052-9896
Pengtao YueDepartment of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8343-846X
James J FengDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z2.ORCID 0000-0002-7141-5823
University of British Columbia · CAVirginia Tech · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Albuminuria occurs when albumin leaks abnormally into the urine. Its mechanism remains unclear. A gel-compression hypothesis attributes the glomerular barrier to compression of the glomerular basement membrane (GBM) as a gel layer. Loss of podocyte foot processes would allow the gel layer to expand circumferentially, enlarge its pores and leak albumin into the urine. To test this hypothesis, we develop a poroelastic model of the GBM. It predicts GBM compression in healthy glomerulus and GBM expansion in the diseased state, essentially confirming the hypothesis. However, by itself, the gel compression and expansion mechanism fails to account for two features of albuminuria: the reduction in filtration flux and the thickening of the GBM. A second mechanism, the constriction of flow area at the slit diaphragm downstream of the GBM, must be included. The cooperation between the two mechanisms produces the amount of increase in GBM porosity expected

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AlbuminuriaPodocytesAlbuminsAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalGlomerular Basement MembraneMiceAlbuminsalbuminuriafiltrationgel compression hypothesisglomerular basement membraneporoelasticity

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PMID36628531
PMCPMC9832287
OpenAlexW4315619271

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