The Advance of Single Cell Transcriptome to Study Kidney Immune Cells in Diabetic Kidney Disease

Overview

Journal BMC Nephrol

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Nephrology

Date 2024 Nov 16

PMID 39550562

Authors

Mengjia Wang

Fang Yao

Ning Chen

Ting Wu

Jiaxin Yan

Linshan Du

Shijie Zeng

Chunyang Du

Affiliations

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Abstract

Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is a prevalent microvascular complication of diabetes mellitus and a primary cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Increasing studies suggest that immune cells are involved in regulating renal inflammation, which contributes to the progression of DKD. Compared with conventional methods, single-cell sequencing technology is more developed technique that has advantages in resolving cellular heterogeneity, parallel multi-omics studies, and discovering new cell types. ScRNA-seq helps researchers to analyze specifically gene expressions, signaling pathways, intercellular communication as well as their regulations in various immune cells of kidney biopsy and urine samples. It is still challenging to investigate the function of each cell type in the pathophysiology of kidney due to its complex and heterogeneous structure and function. Here, we discuss the application of single-cell transcriptomics in the field of DKD and highlight several recent studies that explore the important role of immune cells including macrophage, T cells, B cells etc. in DKD through scRNA-seq analyses. Through combing the researches of scRNA-seq on immune cells in DKD, this review provides novel perspectives on the pathogenesis and immune therapeutic strategy for DKD.

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