Therapies to slow polycystic kidney disease

Nephron. Experimental Nephrology
Vicente E Torres

Abstract

Advances in the understanding of cystogenesis and availability of animal models orthologous to human autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) and recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) will likely facilitate the development of treatments for these diseases. Proteins mutated in ADPKD and ARPKD, as well as in several animal models, are localized to renal primary cilia. These are thought to have a sensory function and contribute to the regulation of the intracellular calcium ([Ca2+]i). It seems likely that the maintenance of a differentiated renal epithelial phenotype, characterized by controlled fluid secretion and cell proliferation, requires precise functional coordination of cAMP and Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK signaling by [Ca2+]i. [Ca2+]i alterations, linked to genetic defects causing polycystic kidney disease, may hinder negative feedback mechanisms that control cAMP and Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK signaling, and result in increased fluid secretion and cell proliferation. cAMP levels, Raf kinase activities and ERK phosphorylation are increased in polycystic kidneys. There is also evidence of abnormal cross-talk between cAMP and MAPK pathways, that can be reproduced in wild-type cells by altering [Ca2+]i. While cAMP inhibits Ras-Ra...Continue Reading

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