2023
The ASSESS-AKI Study found urinary epidermal growth factor is associated with reduced risk of major adverse kidney events
Menez S, Wen Y, Xu L, Moledina D, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Hu D, Obeid W, Bhatraju P, Ikizler T, Siew E, Chinchilli V, Garg A, Go A, Liu K, Kaufman J, Kimmel P, Himmelfarb J, Coca S, Cantley L, Parikh C. The ASSESS-AKI Study found urinary epidermal growth factor is associated with reduced risk of major adverse kidney events. Kidney International 2023, 104: 1194-1205. PMID: 37652206, PMCID: PMC10840723, DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2023.08.007.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMajor adverse kidney eventsUEGF/CrUrinary epidermal growth factorAdverse kidney eventsChronic kidney diseaseEpidermal growth factorKidney eventsKidney failureEGF expressionUrinary EGF/CrAcute Kidney Injury studyGrowth factorIschemia-reperfusion injuryProportional hazards regressionTubular healthKidney atrophyObservational cohortHospitalized participantsTubular functionClinical findingsHazards regressionKidney diseaseClinical variablesProgressive atrophyUrinary EGFLongitudinal biomarkers and kidney disease progression after acute kidney injury
Wen Y, Xu L, Melchinger I, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Moledina D, Coca S, Hsu C, Go A, Liu K, Siew E, Ikizler T, Chinchilli V, Kaufman J, Kimmel P, Himmelfarb J, Cantley L, Parikh C, Consortium T. Longitudinal biomarkers and kidney disease progression after acute kidney injury. JCI Insight 2023, 8: e167731. PMID: 36951957, PMCID: PMC10243801, DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.167731.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAcute Kidney InjuryAnimalsBiomarkersDisease ProgressionInflammationKidneyMiceProspective StudiesRenal Insufficiency, ChronicConceptsAcute kidney injuryIschemic reperfusion injuryKidney disease progressionKidney injuryTubular healthDisease progressionChronic kidney disease (CKD) incidenceCox proportional hazards regressionMurine acute kidney injuryKidney disease incidenceUrine KIM-1Proportional hazards regressionCKD progressionCKD transitionUrine uromodulinIncident CKDComposite outcomeKidney atrophyProspective cohortReperfusion injuryHazards regressionKIM-1Prognostic valueMCP-1Initial insult
2021
Cadherin-11, Sparc-related modular calcium binding protein-2, and Pigment epithelium-derived factor are promising non-invasive biomarkers of kidney fibrosis
Schmidt I, Colona M, Kestenbaum B, Alexopoulos L, Palsson R, Srivastava A, Liu J, Stillman I, Rennke H, Vaidya V, Wu H, Humphreys B, Waikar S, Knight R, Lecker S, Stillman I, Bogen S, Amodu A, Ilori T, Maikhor S, Schmidt I, Beck L, Henderson J, Onul I, Verma A, McMahon G, Valerius M, Waikar S, Weins A, Colona M, Greka A, Hacohen N, Hoover P, Marshall J, Aulisio M, Chen Y, Janowczyk A, Jayapandian C, Viswanathan V, Bush W, Crawford D, Madabhushi A, Bush L, Cooperman L, Gonzalez-Vicente A, Herlitz L, Jolly S, Nguyen J, O’toole J, Palmer E, Poggio E, Sedor J, Sendrey D, Spates-Harden K, Taliercio J, Bjornstad P, Pyle L, Vinovskis C, Appelbaum P, Balderes O, Barasch J, Bomback A, Canetta P, D’Agati V, Kiryluk K, Kudose S, Mehl K, Shang N, Bansal S, Alexandrov T, Rennke H, El-Achkar T, Barwinska D, Bledso S, Borner K, Bueckle A, Cheng Y, Dagher P, Dunn K, Eadon M, Ferkowicz M, Herr B, Kelly K, Ferreira R, Quardokus E, Record E, Rivera M, Su J, Sutton T, Williams J, Winfree S, Jain Y, Menez S, Parikh C, Rosenberg A, Corona-Villalobos C, Wen Y, Johansen C, Rosas S, Roy N, Sun J, Williams M, Azeloglu E, Hansen J, He C, Iyengar R, Xiong Y, Prasad P, Srivastava A, Madhavan S, Parikh S, Rovin B, Shapiro J, Anderton C, Lukowski J, Pasa-Tolic L, Velickovic D, Oliver G, Ardayfio J, Bebiak J, Brown K, Campbell T, Campbell C, Hayashi L, Jefferson N, Roberts G, Saul J, Shpigel A, Stutzke C, Koewler R, Pinkeney R, Sealfon R, Troyanskaya O, Wong A, Tuttle K, Pollack A, Goltsev Y, Ginley B, Lucarelli N, Lutnick B, Sarder P, Lake B, Zhang K, Boada P, Laszik Z, Nolan G, Anjani K, Sarwal M, Mukatash T, Sigdel T, Alloway R, Burg A, Lee P, Rike A, Shi T, Woodle E, Ascani H, Balis U, Blanc V, Conser N, Eddy S, Frey R, He Y, Hodgin J, Kretzler M, Lienczewski C, Luo J, Mariani L, Menon R, Otto E, Schaub J, Steck B, Elder M, Gilliam M, Hall D, Murugan R, Palevsky P, Randhawa P, Rosengart M, Tublin M, Vita T, Winters J, Kellum J, Alpers C, Berglund A, Berry B, Blank K, Carson J, Daniel S, De Boer I, Dighe A, Dowd F, Grewenow S, Himmelfarb J, Hoofnagle A, Limonte C, McClelland R, Mooney S, Rezaei K, Shankland S, Snyder J, Wang R, Wilcox A, Williams K, Park C, Bansal S, Montellano R, Pamreddy A, Sharma K, Venkatachalam M, Ye H, Zhang G, Basit M, Hedayati S, Kermani A, Lee S, Lu C, Miller R, Moe O, Patel J, Pillai A, Sambandam K, Torrealba J, Toto R, Vazquez M, Wang N, Wen N, Zhang D, Park H, Caprioli R, Patterson N, Sharman K, Spraggins J, Van de Plas R, Basta J, Diettman S, Gaut J, Jain S, Rauchman M, Vijayan A, Cantley L, Kakade V, Moledina D, Shaw M, Ugwuowo U, Wilson F, Arora T. Cadherin-11, Sparc-related modular calcium binding protein-2, and Pigment epithelium-derived factor are promising non-invasive biomarkers of kidney fibrosis. Kidney International 2021, 100: 672-683. PMID: 34051265, PMCID: PMC8384690, DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2021.04.037.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPigment epithelium-derived factorBoston Kidney Biopsy CohortEnd-stage kidney diseaseChronic kidney diseaseModular calcium binding protein-2Seattle Kidney StudyKidney fibrosisKidney diseaseEpithelium-derived factorNon-invasive biomarkersBiopsy cohortTubular atrophyInterstitial fibrosisKidney StudyBinding protein 2Cox proportional hazards regression modelHuman chronic kidney diseaseProportional hazards regression modelsUrine biomarker levelsCohort of patientsHazards regression modelsPromising non-invasive biomarkerIndependent prospective cohortsAssociation of biomarkersNon-invasive assessment