JAK-STAT pathway activation compromises nephrocyte function in a Drosophila high-fat diet model of chronic kidney disease

Yunpo Zhao, Jianli Duan, Hannah Seah, Joyce van de Leemput, Zhe Han, Ilse S Daehn, Yunpo Zhao, Jianli Duan, Hannah Seah, Joyce van de Leemput, Zhe Han · 2025

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A fat-rich diet can wreck the kidney's filter cells, and a fruit fly can stand in for a mammal in tracing how. Zhao and co-authors use that fly model in 2025 to show a chain from fat tissue to filter cell. The fly's filter cells match, in job, the cells that guard the human kidney's filters.

On the rich diet, the filter's fine slits break down and its sieving work fades. A signal path in the cells switches on. That path is lit by a hormone-like factor freed from the fat body, a leptin-like signal. Blocking the path, by genes or by drugs, restores the cells' work. The chain names a lever that past work had tied to diabetic kidney disease, here in a diet-driven form.

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CREATORYunpo Zhao, Jianli Duan, Hannah Seah, Joyce van de Leemput, Zhe Han, Ilse S Daehn, Yunpo Zhao, Jianli Duan, Hannah Seah, Joyce van de Leemput, Zhe Han
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE76 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12755883

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