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The role of WNT signalling in chronic kidney disease (CKD)
Malik, SA Modarage, K Goggolidou, P
Malik, SA
Modarage, K
Goggolidou, P
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2020-04-30
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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) encompasses a group of diverse diseases that are associated with accumulating kidney damage and a decline in glomerular filtration rate (GFR). These conditions can be of an acquired or genetic nature and, in many cases, interactions between genetics and the environment also play a role in disease manifestation and severity. In this review, we focus on genetically inherited chronic kidney diseases and dissect the links between canonical and non-canonical Wnt signalling, and this umbrella of conditions that result in kidney damage. Most of the current evidence on the role of Wnt signalling in CKD is gathered from studies in polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and nephronophthisis (NPHP) and reveals the involvement of beta-catenin. Nevertheless, recent findings have also linked planar cell polarity (PCP) signalling to CKD, with further studies being required to fully understand the links and molecular mechanisms.
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Malik, S.A., Modarage, K. and Goggolidou, P. (2020) The Role of Wnt Signalling in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Genes, 11(5), 496. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11050496
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© 2020 The Authors. Published by MDPI. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence.
The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11050496
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2073-4425
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2073-4425