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Revise definition of kidney as per kidney expert community request #3046

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emquardokus opened this issue Aug 30, 2023 · 7 comments · Fixed by #3204
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Revise definition of kidney as per kidney expert community request #3046

emquardokus opened this issue Aug 30, 2023 · 7 comments · Fixed by #3204

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@emquardokus
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Uberon term
kidney
UBERON:0002113
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002113

Suggested revision of textual definition
Requested by Sanjay Jain MD, PhD (HuBMAP, KPMP) in response to being contacted by several researchers and colleagues about the current definition of kidney that appears on the HuBMAP website organ pages : https://portal.hubmapconsortium.org/organ/kidney that is directly coming from uberon “A paired organ of the urinary tract which has the production of urine as its primary function”.

Proposed revised definition approved by Sanjay Jain MD, PhD "A paired organ of the urinary tract that produces urine and maintains bodily fluid homeostasis, blood pressure, pH levels, red blood cell production and bone health."

Add reference source from the National Kidney Foundation: :
https://www.kidney.org/kidneydisease/top-5-jobs-kidneys-do

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sbello commented Aug 31, 2023

Are all those functions applicable to all species with kidneys? Given that cartilaginous fishes have kidneys I'm concerned at least about the inclusion of 'bone health'. If the production of the active form of vitamin D is not species specific then maybe this could be rephrased?

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RDruzinsky commented Aug 31, 2023 via email

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Looking at multiple resources I propose the following definition:

"A paired organ of the urinary tract that is responsible for filtering blood (producing urine), regulating bodily fluid homeostasis, and maintaining electrolyte levels."

Kimball's biology pages: 15.5B: Vertebrate Kidneys
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-81585-0
PMID:31759442
Encyclopedia Britannica
Wikipedia: Kidney (vertebrates)

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@RDruzinsky @sbello Thank you for your comments. I dug into the literature rather heavily and the last part about "bone health was the only thing that I think needs to be changed to be more broadly applicable; otherwise all of the other parts apply to all including cartilaginous fishes.

Proposed revision based on comments and literature: A paired organ of the urinary tract that produces urine and maintains bodily fluid homeostasis, blood pressure, pH levels, red blood cell production and skeleton mineralization.

PMID: 35003210 Atake, O. J. & Eames, B. F. Mineralized Cartilage and Bone-Like Tissues in Chondrichthyans Offer Potential Insights Into the Evolution and Development of Mineralized Tissues in the Vertebrate Endoskeleton. Front Genet 12, 762042 (2021).

Supriyati, H., Rakhmiyati, R. & Luthfi, M. J. Anatomical and Histological Study of Shark (Carcharhinus sorrah) Kidney. Biology, Medicine, & Natural Product Chemistry (2019). at https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:214636289

blood pressure across vertebrates wrt kidney: Kevin Schulte and others, The evolution of blood pressure and the rise of mankind, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Volume 30, Issue 5, May 2015, Pages 713–723, https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfu275

osmoregulation/body fluid homeostasis: Imaseki, I., Wakabayashi, M., Hara, Y., Watanabe, T., Takabe, S., Kakumura, K., Honda, Y., Ueda, K., Murakumo, K., Matsumoto, R., Matsumoto, Y., Nakamura, M., Takagi, W., Kuraku, S. & Hyodo, S. Comprehensive analysis of genes contributing to euryhalinity in the bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas; Na(+)-Cl(-) co-transporter is one of the key renal factors upregulated in acclimation to low-salinity environment. J Exp Biol 222, jeb201780 (2019).

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Proposed revision based on comments and literature: A paired organ of the urinary tract that produces urine and maintains bodily fluid homeostasis, blood pressure, pH levels, red blood cell production and skeleton mineralization.

@emquardokus could you run this definition with Sanjay Jain MD, PhD?
@RDruzinsky @sbello Are there any further concerns with the revised definitions?

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RDruzinsky commented Oct 31, 2023 via email

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Received approval from original requester Sanjay Jain:

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Jain, Sanjay" [email protected]
Subject: RE: Fwd: Kidney definition update proposed Re: HuBMAP website
Date: February 7, 2024 at 11:36:44 AM EST
To: "Quardokus, Ellen M" [email protected]
Cc: "Borner, Katy" [email protected]

the definition below is fine
Thanks
Sanjay

Sanjay Jain MD, PhD
Professor: Medicine (Nephrology), Pediatrics, Pathology and Immunology
Director, Kidney Translational Research Center (KTRC)
PI/MPI: HuBMAP (TMC, HIVE OT2), KPMP (TIS), ATLAS-D2K, PCEN-WU
Washington University School of Medicine, Box 8126
McDonnell Medical Sc Rm 880
660 S. Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110
Office:314-454-8728; Lab:314-454-8464; Fax:314-454-7735.

aleixpuigb added a commit that referenced this issue Feb 7, 2024
Fixes #3046 text definition kidney
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Fixes #3046 text definition kidney
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