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ReviewNature reviews. Nephrology2025

Advances and challenges in kidney fibrosis therapeutics.

Lilia Abbad, Emmanuel Esteve, Christos Chatziantoniou

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Review in Nature reviews. Nephrology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Regulated cell death: a multidimensional regulatory network in the pathogenesis of renal fibrosis.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026
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  19. Targeted Expansion of Treg Cells to Induce Immune Tolerance after Kidney Transplantation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lilia AbbadINSERM UMR S 1155, Common and Rare Kidney Diseases, Tenon Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6548-6935
Emmanuel EsteveINSERM UMR S 1155, Common and Rare Kidney Diseases, Tenon Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3656-8557
Christos ChatziantoniouINSERM UMR S 1155, Common and Rare Kidney Diseases, Tenon Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Sorbonne University, Paris, France. christos.chatziantoniou@sorbonne-universite.fr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4440-099X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major global health burden that affects more than 10% of the adult population. Current treatments, including dialysis and transplantation, are costly and not curative. Kidney fibrosis, defined as an abnormal accumulation of extracellular matrix in the kidney parenchyma, is a common outcome in CKD, regardless of disease aetiology, and is a major cause of loss of kidney function and kidney failure. For this reason, research efforts have focused on identifying mediators of kidney fibrosis to inform the development of effective anti-fibrotic treatments. Given the prominent role of the transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) family in fibrosis, efforts have focused on inhibiting TGFβ signalling. Despite hopes raised by the efficacy of this approach in preclinical models, translation into clinical practice has not met expectations. Antihypertensive and antidiabetic drugs slow the decline in kidney function and could slow fibrosis but, owing to the lack of technologies for in vivo renal imaging, their anti-fibrotic effect cannot be truly assessed at present. The emergence of new drugs targeting pro-fibrotic signalling, or enabling cell repair and cell metabolic reprogramming, combined with better stratification of people with CKD and the arrival of nanotechnologies for kidney-specific drug delivery, open up new perspectives for the treatment of this major public health challenge.

Indexed as

KidneyRenal Insufficiency, ChronicAnimalsFibrosisHumansTransforming Growth Factor betaTransforming Growth Factor beta

Identifiers

PMID39934355

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Registered trials

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