PUBLICATION
Disease Modeling To Understand the Pathomechanisms of Human Genetic Kidney Disorders
- Authors
- Molinari, E., Sayer, J.A.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-200307-14
- Date
- 2020
- Source
- Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 15(6): 855-872 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Sayer, John A.
- Keywords
- genetic renal disease, molecular genetics, transgenic mouse, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Cells, Cultured
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
- Disease Models, Animal
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Humans
- Kidney Diseases/genetics*
- Mice
- Models, Biological*
- Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Dominant/genetics
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 32139361 Full text @ Clin J Am Soc Nephrol
Citation
Molinari, E., Sayer, J.A. (2020) Disease Modeling To Understand the Pathomechanisms of Human Genetic Kidney Disorders. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN. 15(6):855-872.
Abstract
The class of human genetic kidney diseases is extremely broad and heterogeneous. Accordingly, the range of associated disease phenotypes is highly variable. Many children and adults affected by inherited kidney disease will progress to ESKD at some point in life. Extensive research has been performed on various different disease models to investigate the underlying causes of genetic kidney disease and to identify disease mechanisms that are amenable to therapy. We review some of the research highlights that, by modeling inherited kidney disease, contributed to a better understanding of the underlying pathomechanisms, leading to the identification of novel genetic causes, new therapeutic targets, and to the development of new treatments. We also discuss how the implementation of more efficient genome-editing techniques and tissue-culture methods for kidney research is providing us with personalized models for a precision-medicine approach that takes into account the specificities of the patient and the underlying disease. We focus on the most common model systems used in kidney research and discuss how, according to their specific features, they can differentially contribute to biomedical research. Unfortunately, no definitive treatment exists for most inherited kidney disorders, warranting further exploitation of the existing disease models, as well as the implementation of novel, complex, human patient-specific models to deliver research breakthroughs.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping