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  • Title: Role of Podocyte in Kidney Disease.
    Author: Husain S.
    Journal: Front Biosci (Landmark Ed); 2024 Jul 11; 29(7):250. PubMed ID: 39082335.
    Abstract:
    Podocytes are epithelial cells lining the outer surface of the renal glomerular capillaries and they play a pivotal role in maintaining the structural and functional integrity of the glomerular filtration barrier. Podocytes react to injury in various ways and any injury to these highly specialized cells can progress to podocyte dysfunction, resulting in a group of proteinuric renal diseases called podocytopathies. Podocytopathies include a wide spectrum of primary and secondary kidney diseases, including minimal change disease, diffuse mesangial sclerosis, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, collapsing glomerulopathy, diabetic, membranous and lupus nephropathies. Etiologically, they can be idiopathic, genetic or secondary to infections and drugs, metabolic diseases, hemodynamic factors or associated with various immune and non-immune systemic diseases. This manuscript provides a basic understanding of podocyte structure, causes of podocyte injury, response to the injury and the subsequent progression to podocytopathies. The pathogenesis of these diseases is set around podocytes. The clinical and morphological manifestations, the commonality and heterogeneity of these podocytopathies are also discussed. As our knowledge of podocyte biology improves, so will our treatment avenues with a more podocyte-centric personalized approach.
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