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Check out this great paper for @davidbaird86.bsky.social and our Edinburgh Kidney Team.
Delighted to see the first publication of seNSOR which was a prospective study of CKD patients from Edinburgh and Glasgow to find new non-invasive biomarkers of kidney disease funded by @kidneyresearchuk.org
Urine levels of the protein clusterin reflect damaged ‘senescent’ cells in kidney disease, based on new research led by @davidbaird86.bsky.social . This test could help personalise therapy and prevent disease progression.

🔍Summary: edin.ac/4jrtXVC...
📄Full paper: edin.ac/3SNjRmL...
May 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Transcriptomic and proteomic profiling of insulin resistant kidney cells! TMT proteomics of podocytes, glomerular endothelial, mesangial and proximal tubular cells. Mitochondrial bioenergetics and mechanistic insights of diabetic kidney disease. This has a little something for everyone!
Profiling of insulin-resistant kidney models and human biopsies reveals common and cell-type-specific mechanisms underpinning Diabetic Kidney Disease - Nature Communications
Diabetic kidney disease is the leading cause of kidney failure in the world and cellular insulin resistance is an important driver of this disease. Here, Lay et al identify multiple insulin-resistance...
www.nature.com
December 6, 2024 at 10:36 AM
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#NoTimeToDie! @inflammasomelab, Holley, Monteleone &co show @natimmunol.bsky.social that cells that die by #pyroptosis, or #necroptosis, are crowned with F-actin filopodia that makes them visible by dendritic cells via CLEC9A to initiate adaptive immunity! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pyroptotic cell corpses are crowned with F-actin-rich filopodia that engage CLEC9A signaling in incoming dendritic cells - Nature Immunology
Pyroptotic cell death results in inflammation. Here the authors find that F-actin-rich structures formed during macrophage pyroptosis persist after cell death to activate dendritic cells.
www.nature.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Crafting in Lab - we present the Den-way recycled expensive Lab 🎄
December 4, 2024 at 4:53 PM
I have had some amazing students, when urine love and all that. Vintage card still goes up #kidney #Christmas
December 1, 2024 at 2:30 PM
🤩🤩 here she is our post-doc star Rachel Bell presenting her data at #EMDS24 . Who does love Mo:Macs and 🫘.
November 27, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Eek 1st post to say Dr Rachel Bell is currently at #EMDS2024 in Vienna presenting some of our new kidney myeloid cell work. What a venue 😍😍, truly inspiring! If you are there go say Hi to her!
November 27, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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🎨 In case anyone need…

The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!

Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
November 23, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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Delighted to share our latest paper:

"The glomerular circadian clock temporally regulates basement membrane dynamics and the podocyte glucocorticoid response"

Expertly led by Rebecca Preston & in collaboration with clock superstar Qing Jun Meng

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39515644/

Key findings 👇👇
November 21, 2024 at 3:39 PM