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Published on: April 22, 2011
Notch Signaling in Kidney Development, Maintenance, and Disease
Malini Mukherjee1, Eric Fogarty2, Madhusudhana Janga3
1Pediatrics and Rare Diseases Group, Sanford Research, 2301 East 60th Street North, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, USA. malini.mukherjee@sanfordhealth.org.
Abstract:
Kidney development involves formation of nephrons intricately aligned with the vasculature and connected to a branched network of collecting ducts. Notch signaling plays multiple roles during kidney development involving the formation of nephrons composed of diverse epithelial cell types arranged into tubular segments, all the while maintaining a nephron progenitor niche. Here, we review the roles of Notch signaling identified from rodent kidney development and injury studies, while discussing human kidney diseases associated with aberrant Notch signaling. We also review Notch signaling requirement in maintenance of mature kidney epithelial cell states and speculate that Notch activity regulation mediates certain renal physiologic adaptations.
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