Inhalational Exposures and Pulmonary-Renal Crosstalk in Renal Injury
Mary Foster, MD
Professor of Medicine
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
Description: Environmental inhalational exposures may play a complex role in kidney injury that extends beyond direct renal cell toxicity from inhaled nephrotoxicants delivered to the kidney via the circulation. Air pollution has emerged as a risk factor for chronic kidney disease and silica dust exposure is implicated in CKDu. Circulating factors capable of mediating injury in kidneys and other organs are upregulated during lung infection and inflammation and after inhalation of wildfire smoke. Data from mouse models suggest potential mechanisms of pulmonary-renal crosstalk that may contribute to environmentally provoked kidney injury.
The Symposium will be held on Thursday, April 4, 2024, from 11:30am – 5:45pm Eastern.
Location: Field Auditorium Room 1112, Grainger Hall, (9 Circuit Drive, Durham, NC)