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1Centre de Génétique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Unit 5534, 2Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Unit 5558, and 3Laboratoire de Physiologie Intégrative Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Unit 5123, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
Submitted 23 January 2006 ; accepted in final form 22 March 2006
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gene expression profiling; hypoxia; cell adhesion; metabolism; aging
The aim of this study was to investigate early changes in transcriptome in the normally well-oxygenated renal proximal cortical tubule. Rat tubule suspensions were differentially oxygenated under three conditions that reproduce normoxia with lactate uptake and two conditions of controlled hypoxia with a progressive shift toward a glycolytic metabolism. Transcriptome changes were analyzed on a high scale by restriction fragment differential display (RFDD) to determine the different functional networks altered by hypoxia and potentially involved in changes of tubular phenotype.
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Renal cortical tubule suspensions were prepared by collagenase digestion as previously described (33) from male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing 
300 g (Charles River, Les Oncins, France). In each experiment, kidney cortexes from four animals were pooled to prepare a purified tubule suspension that was distributed into separate flasks. The DMEM/F12 medium used for preparation and incubation of the suspensions was equilibrated with 75% N2-20% O2-5% CO2 and contained 25 mM bicarbonate, 10 mM HEPES at pH 7.4, 5 mM glucose, 0.5 mM lactate, 4 mM glutamine, and 20 mg/l egg white lysozyme as an antibacterial agent, but neither serum nor albumin except during collagenase digestion. The suspension was incubated at 37°C in 25-ml flasks, the atmosphere of which was equilibrated for 2 min through the stopper with air-CO2 and shaken for 4 h at 120 strokes/min under the following conditions: condition 1: 2.5-ml suspension, 1.75 mg protein/ml; condition 2: 2.5-ml suspension, 3.5 mg protein/ml; and condition 3: 5-ml suspension, 3.5 mg protein/ml. Therefore, differential oxygenation was achieved by modulating the balance between oxygen supply (diffusion across a variable distance) and oxygen consumption (variable concentrations of cells). At the end of the incubation time, PO2, PCO2, and pH of the liquid phase were immediately measured with a gas analyzer (Radiometer ABL 300, or ABL 5), and photomicrographs were taken. Meanwhile, the remaining suspension was centrifuged in the cold for 5 min at 50 g. The supernatant was saved at –20°C in 2% perchloric acid for metabolite determination, and the pellet was resuspended in RNA later (Ambion) for further RNA extraction.
Glucose and lactate were determined in neutralized perchloric extracts as previously described (33).
Transcriptome Analysis by RFDD
RNA extraction and double-stranded cDNA synthesis. Total RNA was extracted with the TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen, Cergy Pontoise, France), treated with RNase-free DNase (Ambion), and purified with phenol/chloroform/isoamylic alcohol (Invitrogen).
The first cDNA strand was prepared in 20 µl containing 1 µg RNA, 80 pmol oligoVdT25, 20 pmol random octamers, 20 nmol dNTP mix, 2 µl Qthermo RT reverse transcriptase, and 1 µl RNAsin. Incubation was performed for 30 min at 37°C, 30 s at 70°C, 30 min at 37°C, 30 s at 70°C, and 5 min at 37°C. After denaturation, the RNA strand was hydrolyzed with 0.8 µl RNase H for 20 min at 37°C. The second DNA strand was synthesized in the same tube (final volume 50 µl) by addition of 5 nmol dNTP mix, 0.5 µl Taq DNA polymerase, 3 mM MgCl2, and incubation for 6 min at 95°C, 30 s at 55°C, and 5 min at 72°C. All reagents were obtained from MP Biomedicals (Illkirch, France). Double-stranded cDNAs purified with phenol-chloroform extraction and alcohol precipitation were resuspended in 20 µl H2O and stored at +4°C.
Preparation of adapted fragments and discriminating PCR amplification. RFDD-PCR (Display PROfile expression profile products, MP Biomedicals) was performed as recommended by the manufacturer. Briefly, cDNA samples were fragmented with an endonuclease (Taq1 or Hha1) and ligated to one of the adaptor couples specifically designed for each type of endonuclease. A couple was made of adaptor A, designed to be recognized during the RFDD-PCR by a blue fluorescent PCR primer, and adaptor B, designed to be recognized by the common part of the discriminating primers. The discriminating primers will hybridize to adaptor B and to the three nucleotides flanking the restriction site on the fragment by their discriminating sequence. Because there are 64 combinations of 3 nucleotides, there are 64 discriminating primers per endonuclease kit. RFDD-PCR touch-down amplification of the ligated fragments was made on an Eppendorf MasterCycler following the manufacturer's instructions. The PCR products were checked on a 1.7% agarose gel and diluted two- to sixfold. Five microliters were separated on a ABI 3100 capillary sequencer (Applied Biosystems) in the presence of formamide and a red fluorescent size marker (ROX 2500B, Applied Biosystems).
Analysis of fragments and data organization. After separation of the amplicons by electrophoresis, it was possible to identify each of them from its size and its discriminating triplet owing to the fact that a database of predicted fragments had been previously developed in silico. The sizes and fluorescence intensities of the separated PCR products (amplicons) were listed on a text file by GeneScan software (Applied Biosystems). The results were organized, and candidate transcripts were assigned to each amplicon using the program available on the website http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/software/RFDD/. The threshold for peak alignment under different conditions was 0.25 bp. The threshold for assignment of a candidate transcript was 0.6 bp. Fluorescence intensities were normalized by the total fluorescence in each electrophoresis, and in a given PCR type, the three fluorescences from three matched peaks were normalized by division by the maximal fluorescence. Subsequently, a variation in fluorescence between two of the three conditions was taken into account when the difference was >0.45.
Another program in Javascript in free access on http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/software/CCOV was used to crosscheck the variations of several amplicons putatively originating from the same transcript. The variations in fluorescence in response to hypoxia were sorted into five types of response: increased, or decreased under severe hypoxia, no change, decreased maximally by mild hypoxia, or increased maximally by mild hypoxia. After this sorting, a response to hypoxia was accepted if it was found in a majority of PCRs amplifying different fragments from the same transcript, or if two ends of the same fragment were amplified in the two related PCRs with the same type of response (de Laplanche E et al., unpublished observations).
Quantitative PCR
RFDD results were checked on double-stranded cDNAs from separate but similar experiments. Real-time PCR was made using a Light Cycler (Roche Diagnostics) with SYBR Green 1 (Roche Diagnostics) as a fluorescent probe. Semiquantitative PCR was performed in several tubes arrested after an increasing number of cycles, and the products were analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis. 
2-Microglobulin and ribosomal L32 protein were used as control transcripts. The primer sequences are given in supplementary data (the online version of this article contains supplemental data).
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Figure 1 shows a clear-cut difference between condition 1 and condition 3, with excellent reproducibility of the difference, as attested by the Student's analysis of paired data. Condition 1 resembles normoxia (95 mmHg in human arterial blood); however, PO2 was not sufficient to characterize oxygenation status, because PO2 may be high in the venous blood of organs that take up oxygen at a low rate and in the medium surrounding cells that produce ATP from anaerobic glycolysis (3). As a consequence, the Pasteur effect, i.e., the shift of lactate uptake (condition 1) toward lactate production and glucose uptake (condition 3) was probably a better index of the oxygenation status in tubular proximal cells. Incubation was performed in 5 mM glucose and 0.5 mM lactate, i.e., the normal plasma content of glucose and lactate.
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Tubule suspensions could be incubated for up to 6 h without significant changes in PO2, in glucose consumption rate (28), and their morphology after 6 h was essentially maintained (Fig. 2).
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RFDD, as well as other differential cDNA analyses, requires a good quality of RT (i.e., reproducibility in yield and in range of cDNA sizes). Moreover, the fact that RFDD is prone to display several fragments per transcript was used to confirm their variation by crosschecking the results, and therefore it was important to get cDNAs as long as possible. Good quality was obtained by using a thermo-resistant reverse transcriptase with pulses at 70°C during the synthesis of the first cDNA strand, and Taq DNA polymerase at 72°C for the synthesis of the second strand, preventing the formation of loops and of consecutive deletions in the process of cDNA synthesis. The cDNA lengths were increased by adding a minor proportion of random primers to oligoVdT primers. As a result, agarose gel analysis showed five similar smears, each with a wide range of sizes stretching to 2,652 bp and more (Fig. 3). The quantitative reproducibility of the method was checked in purified cDNAs by real-time PCR of 2-microglobulin reverse transcribed from transcripts naturally present in tissue RNA (Fig. 3). Moreover, a synthetic and nonhomologous poly(A) standard mRNA (SmRNA; patent no. 03290958.2, April 17, 2003) was added to the RNA sample before five different RT reactions, and the resulting cDNAs were checked in the five purified reaction products by real-time PCR. The good reproducibility of the cDNA synthesis was assessed by crossing point values varying by no more than ±0.56% (SD; n = 5; Fig. 3).
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Double-stranded cDNAs were prepared from tubule suspensions incubated for 4 h under the three different conditions as described above. cDNAs from each condition were fragmented with two different endonuclease kits (Taq 1 and Hha1, respectively) and processed as indicated in METHODS. Eighty-three discriminating RFDD-PCRs of 128 provided satisfactory results under the 3 experimental conditions, i.e., >50 peaks/electrophoregram, similar number of peaks (n = ±15%), and a similar range of sizes. Among the 4,582 transcripts present in RFDD-Base (version 1) for Rattus norvegicus, 3,853 were proposed as candidates, and, after crosschecking of the variations, the response to hypoxia of 1,533 transcripts was retained as valid (de Laplanche E et al., unpublished observations). The file of whole results can be accessed at http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/datasets/delaplanche2005.
The response to hypoxia of 33 transcripts was checked by quantitative PCR (qPCR), and 29 were confirmed (this study and de Laplanche E, unpublished observations). The tables show the variations of 85 transcripts selected for their relevance to EMT, energy production, and cell-cell interactions, among which 26 have been validated by qPCR (Fig. 4).
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Table 4), one of the protease-maturing proteins imported into the mitochondrion, succinate dehydrogenase A (SDHA; Sdha gene), and cytochrome c oxidase 2, subunits of respiratory chain complexes II and IV, and the 
1-subunit of the plasma membrane Na-K-ATPase (Atp1a1) (see Table 4). Among the transcripts whose level was not changed by hypoxia was also found a molecule encoding a kidney-specific transporter, the Na-driven glucose transporter SGLT2 (Slc5a2), and nonmuscle myosin heavy chain-B (Myh10, see Table 2). As shown by qPCR (Fig. 4), the relative abundances of these unchanged mRNAs were generally high because their levels were close to that of the transcript encoding ribosomal protein L32.
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Proximal tubule-specific transcripts but not distal-specific transcripts were maximally expressed under normoxia. Table 1 shows that several mRNAs normally restricted to proximal tubules were decreased by hypoxia. The transcript of Cyp27b1, which encodes the final maturating enzyme for active vitamin D, 25-hydroxyvitamin D 1-hydroxylase, was decreased by hypoxia, and the result was confirmed by qPCR (Table 1 and Fig. 4). So were the transcripts of Pklr, encoding the liver-type pyruvate kinase that is normally expressed in proximal tubule (Table 1; confirmed by qPCR as shown in Fig. 4), and that of Atp60a1, which encodes a lysosomal proton-transporting ATPase subunit, involved in the very active endocytic degradation of proteins in proximal tubule (Table 1). Three transcripts involved in solute transport in this part of the nephron were found by RFDD; however, at variance with the preceding transcripts, they were not affected by hypoxia (Table 1). Table 1 also shows that the transcripts activated by hypoxia were not always related to EMT because, typically epithelial transcripts, kidney specific, were maximally expressed under hypoxia. The furosemide-sensitive Na-K-Cl transporter, restricted to the thick ascending limb of Henle, and UT3, a urea transporter isoform, whose transcripts were increased by hypoxia, are normally present in the medullary zone and absent from the cortex for UT3. The response to hypoxia of UT3 was confirmed by qPCR (Fig. 4). Hypoxia also increased Scnn1g, an isoform of the amiloride-sensitive sodium channel of the distal nephron, cortical and medulla segments (Table 1).
Myosins and muscle differentiation. Eight transcripts of myosin isoforms were found by RFDD. The transcript abundance of nonmuscle myosin heavy chain A (Myh9 gene), which is normally expressed in the kidney, and heavy chain MYR 1 (Myo1b gene) were decreased by hypoxia. Conversely, those of muscle-type myosin II heavy chain (Myh1 gene) and light chain (Mlc3 gene) from fast-twitch skeletal muscle were increased under severe hypoxia (Table 2). This represented a general shift of myosin isoform transcripts toward muscle-type expression, with the exception of Myh10, for which the transcript level did not change.
The transcript of myodulin, a muscle-specific angiogenic protein, was increased by hypoxia, contributing to the general scheme of a transcriptome closer to a muscle type.
ECM, related products, and transdifferentiation factors. After only 4 h of hypoxia, there were strikingly consistent modifications in the abundance of transcripts encoding the ECM, its processing enzymes, and proteins involved in cell adhesion (Table 3). Gelatinases A and B (MMP-2, Mmp2 gene and MMP-9, Mmp9 gene) and heparanase (Hpse gene) were overexpressed under hypoxia, whereas fibronectin (Fn1 gene) was less expressed, suggesting remodeling of the ECM. N-cadherin mRNA (Cdh2 gene), encoding a cell adhesion protein that is normally present in the kidney, was lowered by hypoxia, whereas hypoxia increased transcripts involved in inhibition of cell-cell interaction such as those encoding ADAMTS-1 (Adamts1 gene), a disintegrin/metalloprotease expressed during kidney development and localized to the medullary collecting duct in adults, and CASPR (Cntnap1 gene), a contactin-associated protein. The cell junction-related desmin mRNA (Des gene) remained unchanged, along with barmotin (Bartomin gene), a tight junction component. Taken together, these results show that under severe hypoxia, there is a general increase in the transcripts involved in ECM disruption or remodeling, and a general decrease in the transcripts involved in ECM tightness and tissue cohesion.
Transcripts of TGF-2 and -3 were overexpressed under hypoxia, in agreement with the observations made in other models of hypoxia (32, 45). It should be mentioned that variations in TGF-1 could not be detected by RFDD because its cDNA does not harbor restriction sites for Taq1 or for Hha1. In addition to TGF, the product of Fgfr1, the fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (-isoform) transcript, was overexpressed under hypoxia.
Energy production and storage, substrate and oxygen supply. The transcripts involved in energy production and intermediary metabolism, mostly enzymes (Table 4), were less sensitive to hypoxia than those involved in tissue structure cited above. However, the mRNAs encoding the angiogenic factor VEGF-C (Vegfc gene), the glycolytic enzyme aldolase A (Aldoa gene), and the lactate transporter MCT2 (Slc16a7 gene) were increased by hypoxia. Aldolase A is a well-known hypoxia-induced transcript (32). The increase in MCT2 mRNA during hypoxia could be related to a transition to a collecting duct tissue type, because this latter part of the nephron is able to express MCT2 (10). Less expected were the changes in two transcripts involved in muscle-type energy storage, encoding, respectively, creatine kinase B and L-arginine: glycine amidinotransferase (Gatm gene), which is involved in creatine synthesis (Table 4). The two latter transcripts were overexpressed under hypoxia, favoring the hypothesis of EMT with a new type of marker. Creatine kinase M transcript (Ckm gene), which is preferentially expressed in oxidative-type muscles, was decreased under hypoxia. CKM is thought to be involved in fine regulation of ATP levels more than in storage of energy under the form of creatine phosphate (40).
Loss of Tubule Adhesion During Hypoxia
Microscopy showed tubule agglutination in normally oxygenated tubule suspensions, whereas hypoxic tubules remained well dissociated (Fig. 2). Under all conditions, tubules remained birefringent. Agglutination was not due to a lower concentration of total proteins under normoxia because the protein concentration was identical under mild hypoxia or severe hypoxia, and the tubule suspension nevertheless agglutinated much more under mild hypoxia, as soon as 2 h after the beginning of the incubation period (Fig. 2). Tubule or cell suspensions are generally incubated in the presence of fatty acid free albumin to prevent the cells from clustering together, and to bind by-products of degradation. However, in our experiments, incubation of tubules was done in the absence of albumin because it had been shown to induce tubular defects (4), and this disclosed the dissociating effect of hypoxia. In this latter condition, however, cell junctions were not disrupted and tubular structures were conserved (Fig. 2).
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Owing to the good reproducibility of our model, we could test the soundness of the results observed by RFDD because, if RFDD analysis can be obtained with only 1–2 µg RNA, confirmation of the results by qPCR requires much higher amounts of material. An abundant supply of oxygen to tubule suspensions resulted in metabolic features normally observed in freshly isolated kidney cortex and in in vivo measurements (18), and the RFDD data from the normoxic condition reflected the expected tubule transcriptome, similar in several points to that described by serial analysis of gene expression in freshly dissected nephrons from human kidney (6).
The transcriptome method we chose was not as quantitative as serial analysis of gene expression; however, it presented the combined advantages of a relatively low cost, good capacity to find unexpected and rare transcripts, and its low level of false positive and of false negative because the unchanged transcripts could be reported and confirmed.
One of the main findings of the present study is that the very moderate hypoxia of 40–60 mmHg is able to favor the expression of a subset of transcripts less expressed both in normoxia and in severe hypoxia. These include enzymes of the intermediary metabolism and a transcription factor, myogenin, known to be involved in fetal development of muscle cells but absent in adult muscle. The mechanism underlying a biphasic response to oxygen could be that two or several sensors are recruited at different levels of oxygen. Previous studies have already reported different levels of responses to hypoxia. The Chandel group (8) has shown in cultured fibroblasts that the hypoxia-inducible factor-1 system is activated through different mechanisms according to the level of oxygen deprivation: 1.5 or 0% O2. In vivo, angiogenesis during placental development has been shown to be controlled by different factors, probably in relation to the levels of hypoxia: during early placental development, branching angiogenesis occurs under hypoxic conditions, recruiting the VEGF system, whereas during late pregnancy, nonbranching angiogenesis takes place under less hypoxic conditions under the control of PlGF (26).
The second important finding is that physiological oxygenation status is required for fully differentiated expression of kidney-specific transcripts, this specifically in the proximal tubule. New oxygen-regulated transcripts were identified such as those encoding vitamin D final maturing enzyme and Pklr. 25-Hydroxyvitamin D 1-hydroxylase, the product of Cyp27b, is a monooxygenase and could be regulated by oxygen not only at the substrate level, but also at the transcript level. The so-called liver-type pyruvate kinase (Pklr) is in fact also expressed in other glucose-synthesizing organs such as the kidney proximal tubule and small intestine (43). In the liver, Pklr is modulated by the relative levels of glucose and oxygen (13), but in the kidney it is sensitive to glycerol rather than to glucose (43), and data on the effect of oxygen were lacking.
The fact that transcripts normally restricted to the medullary zone, such as those encoding UT3 and hepatocyte nuclear factor-3, were increased by hypoxia in our cortical preparation was unexpected because, during dissection, the medulla was largely removed from the cortex. However, it could have a biological meaning if we consider that this zone is normally less oxygenated than the cortex and that some transcription factors such as hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (46) are restricted to this zone. The suggested hypothesis is that the highly specialized functions of the different segments of the nephron are modulated, in part, by tissue oxygenation and that an epithelial cell can undergo a transition toward another epithelial phenotype. More unexpected was the fact that transcripts of the amiloride-sensitive sodium transporter and furosemide-sensitive K-Cl transporter, which are normally present in the cortical distal tubule, were increased by hypoxia. The transcript of heparanase also belongs to this relationship. This suggested that the proximal tubule's functions are more sensitive to hypoxia than those of the distal nephron.
In parallel, hypoxia increased the level of other transcripts that are related to an EMT transition toward myofibroblasts, in agreement with previous in vitro and in vivo studies (19). Nonmuscle myosin mRNAs were decreased under hypoxia, whereas skeletal muscle-type myosin mRNAs and troponin mRNA were induced by hypoxia. Myogenin transcript expression was increased by mild hypoxia. This was strikingly similar to the observations of other authors showing, in myofibroblasts, increased sarcomeric myosin expression, together with that of MyoD, myogenin, and troponin mRNAs (20). However, in this study, at this stage of hypoxia, there was not a true transdifferentiation because tubule structure and morphology remained well maintained and the changes were just initiated. Besides, if there was a transition toward a glycolytic muscle type of energy storage, creatine phosphate, it could represent a positive response to facing transient periods of hypoxia, together with the increase in transcripts involved in glycolysis.
EMT also involves changes in tissue cohesion, which is essential for maintaining the highly organized morphology of nephrons with their surrounding vasculature, and in cell-cell interactions, necessary for epithelial barrier organization. It has been shown that an increase in gelatinase A/MMP-2 was sufficient to induce EMT (7); however, data from the literature are still needed to clarify the effect of hypoxia on MMP-2 levels: increase or decrease (9, 15)? Hypoxia's effect could depend on its duration and level (9, 15). This study clearly shows that early hypoxia decreased transcripts involved in tissue cohesion, such as fibronectin, and increased those of ECM remodeling, such as gelatinase A, whereas transcripts involved in cell-cell junctions were not changed. In agreement, tubule suspensions that naturally aggregated in clusters under normoxia were well dissociated in separate tubules under hypoxia. Heparanase, an ECM-degrading enzyme, is normally found in the inner medulla and in distal parts of the nephron (16), and an increased level of its transcript could be involved both in ECM remodeling and invasion (24), and in release of growth factors trapped in ECM (30), therefore favoring tissue regeneration and tumor invasion. Fibronectin, that plays a pivotal role in cell adhesion to ECM (41), is required for tumor suppression by von Hippel-Lindau protein (36) to which it directly binds, and it is absent from von Hippel-Lindau protein-deficient renal tumors (11). Its mRNA level had been previously reported to be insensitive to extreme hypoxia in nonstirred cultured cell lines (2, 42), but in the present study its transcript was downregulated by early physiological hypoxia. TGF- has been proven to be a major factor of EMT in several tissues either during normal development or during the fibrotic process, especially in kidney disease (35, 45); however, TGF- protein only increased after 24 h of hypoxia (22). This suggests that the early effects observed in the present study could hardly be relevant to TGF- protein signaling, even if hypoxia increased the transcript levels of TGF-2 and -3.
Disruption of the epithelial barrier by hypoxia has been reported in other models of very severe ischemia with ATP depletion (21, 25, 44) or unstirred cultured cells (14), whereas in our model with no ATP depletion (33) cell junctions were essentially maintained. Therefore, ECM changes in mRNA levels appear early during physiological hypoxia but remain modest: they could trigger or favor invasion of the tissue by other cell types such as macrophages, fibroblasts or tumor cells, without altering the tubular barrier, whereas normoxia favors ECM formation and could be required to maintain the well-organized morphology of the kidney cortex.
In conclusion, an abundant supply of oxygen seems an important factor for a fully differentiated phenotype of the proximal cortical tubule in the kidney, and a global approach can provide clues for a better understanding. The proximal part of the nephron is formed during embryogenesis from mesenchymal cells that undergo mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition (27, 31), whereas the collecting duct originates from the epithelial-type ureteric bud. It is therefore tempting to hypothesize that proximal tubular cells easily revert to a mesenchymal, fetal type of tissue under hypoxia. Proximal phenotype shift toward glycolysis and storage of energy as creatine phosphate could favor adaptation to transient periods of hypoxia, but loss of tissue adhesion in the adult quiescent kidney could permit a deleterious tissue invasion by fibroblasts, tumor cells, and new vessels. In addition, the differential hypoxia sensitivity of kidney functions described in this study provides insight into how nephron heterogeneity may be generated and, sometimes, impaired. Investigations are now in progress to understand the mechanisms involved in some of the changes disclosed in this study.
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