PMID- 25795502 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20151215 LR - 20220408 IS - 1558-4488 (Electronic) IS - 0270-9295 (Linking) VI - 35 IP - 1 DP - 2015 Jan TI - Sepsis-associated AKI: epithelial cell dysfunction. PG - 85-95 LID - S0270-9295(15)00010-8 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2015.01.009 [doi] AB - Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs frequently in critically ill patients with sepsis, in whom it doubles the mortality rate and half of the survivors suffer permanent kidney damage or chronic kidney disease. Failure in the development of viable therapies has prompted studies to better elucidate the cellular and molecular etiologies of AKI, which have generated novel theories and paradigms for the mechanisms of this disease. These studies have shown multifaceted origins and elements of AKI that, in addition to/in lieu of ischemia, include the generation of damage-associated molecular patterns and pathogen-associated molecular patterns, the inflammatory response, humoral and cellular immune activation, perturbation of microvascular flow and oxidative stress, bioenergetic alterations, cell-cycle alterations, and cellular de-differentiation/re-differentiation. It is becoming clear that a major etiologic effector of all these inputs is the renal tubule epithelial cell (RTEC). This review discusses these elements and their effects on RTECs, and reviews the current hypotheses of how these effects may determine the fate of RTECs during sepsis-induced AKI. CI - Copyright (c) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Emlet, David R AU - Emlet DR AD - Center for Critical Care Nephrology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. FAU - Shaw, Andrew D AU - Shaw AD AD - Department of Anesthesia, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN. FAU - Kellum, John A AU - Kellum JA AD - Center for Critical Care Nephrology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Electronic address: kellumja@ccm.upmc.edu. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review PL - United States TA - Semin Nephrol JT - Seminars in nephrology JID - 8110298 SB - IM MH - Acute Kidney Injury/etiology/metabolism/*physiopathology MH - Epithelial Cells/*metabolism/physiology MH - Humans MH - Inflammation MH - Kidney/*metabolism/physiopathology MH - Kidney Tubules, Distal/cytology MH - Kidney Tubules, Proximal/cytology MH - Oxidative Stress MH - Sepsis/complications/metabolism/*physiopathology OTO - NOTNLM OT - DAMPs and PAMPs OT - Sepsis OT - acute kidney injury OT - renal tubule epithelial cell EDAT- 2015/03/22 06:00 MHDA- 2015/12/17 06:00 CRDT- 2015/03/22 06:00 PHST- 2015/03/22 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/03/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/12/17 06:00 [medline] AID - S0270-9295(15)00010-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2015.01.009 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Semin Nephrol. 2015 Jan;35(1):85-95. doi: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2015.01.009.