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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-44161-y
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- JIkei University Graduate Research Fund, KAKENHI [21370098]
- Grant for pathophysiological research conference in chronic kidney disease, The Kidney Foundation, Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21370098] Funding Source: KAKEN
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In acute kidney injury (AKI), the S3 segment of the proximal tubule is particularly damaged, as it is most vulnerable to ischemia. However, this region is also involved in renal tubular regeneration. To deeply understand the mechanism of the repair process after ischemic injury in AKI, we focused on glial cells missing 1 (Gcm1), which is one of the genes expressed in the S3 segment. Gcm1 is essential for the development of the placenta, and Gcm1 knockout (KO) is embryonically lethal. Thus, the function of Gcm1 in the kidney has not been analyzed yet. We analyzed the function of Gcm1 in the kidney by specifically knocking out Gcm1 in the kidney. We created an ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) model to observe the repair process after AKI. We found that Gcm1 expression was transiently increased during the recovery phase of IRI. In Gcm1 conditional KO mice, during the recovery phase of IRI, tubular cell proliferation reduced and transforming growth factor-beta 1 expression was downregulated resulting in a reduction in fibrosis. In vitro, Gcm1 overexpression promoted cell proliferation and upregulated TGF-beta 1 expression. These findings indicate that Gcm1 is involved in the mechanisms of fibrosis and cell proliferation after ischemic injury of the kidney.
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