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ArticlePloS one2024

Defining the molecular response to ischemia-reperfusion injury and remote ischemic preconditioning in human kidney transplantation.

Johan Nordström, Pau Badia-I-Mompel, Anna Witasp, Angelina Schwarz, Pieter Evenepoel, Matthias B Moor, Lars Wennberg, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Annika Wernerson, Hannes Olauson

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Article in PloS one, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Effects of remote ischemic preconditioning and/or erythropoietin on lung injury induced by skeletal ischemia reperfusion: role of the NLRP3 inflammasome.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Johan NordströmDepartment of Transplantation Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-7443-9521
Pau Badia-I-MompelInstitute for Computational Biomedicine, Bioquant, Faculty of Medicine, and Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1004-3923
Anna WitaspDivision of Renal Medicine, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention, and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Angelina SchwarzDivision of Renal Medicine, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention, and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Pieter EvenepoelDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Nephrology and Renal Transplantation Research Group, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Matthias B MoorDivision of Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Lars WennbergDepartment of Transplantation Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Julio Saez-RodriguezInstitute for Computational Biomedicine, Bioquant, Faculty of Medicine, and Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Annika WernersonDivision of Renal Medicine, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention, and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Hannes OlausonDivision of Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIschemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) inevitably occurs during kidney transplantation and extended ischemia is associated with delayed graft function and poor outcomes. Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) is a simple, noninvasive procedure aimed at reducing IRI and improving graft function. Experimental studies have implicated the kynurenine pathway as a protective mechanism behind RIPC.

methodsFirst, paired biopsies from 11 living kidney donors were analyzed to characterize the acute transcriptomic response to IRI. Second, 16 living kidney donors were subjected to either RIPC (n = 9) or no pretreatment (n = 7) to evaluate the impact of RIPC on the transcriptomic response to IRI. Finally, the effect of RIPC on plasma metabolites was analyzed in 49 healthy subjects.

resultsThere was a robust immediate response to IRI in the renal transcriptomes of living-donor kidney transplantation, including activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathways. Preconditioning with RIPC did not significantly alter the transcriptomic response to IRI or the concentration of plasma metabolites.

conclusionsThe present data validate living-donor kidney transplantation as a suitable model for mechanistic studies of IRI in human kidneys. The failure of RIPC to alter transcriptomic responses or metabolites in the kynurenine pathway raises the question of the robustness of the standard procedure used to induce RIPC, and might explain the mixed results in clinical trials evaluating RIPC as a method to attenuate IRI.

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Ischemic PreconditioningKidney TransplantationReperfusion InjuryAdultFemaleHumansKidneyKynurenineLiving DonorsMaleMiddle AgedTranscriptomeKynurenine

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