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. 2022 Jul 12;3:931331. doi: 10.3389/fragi.2022.931331

TABLE 1.

Klotho insufficiency and related pathologies.

Organ/system Disease or lesion References
Kidneys Chronic kidney disease/fibrosis, hyperphosphatemia, ischemic injury, nephrectomy, toxic injury (adriamycin streptozotocin), diabetic nephropathy, calciprotein deposition (aging) Cheng et al. (2010)
Hu et al. (2013), Hu et al. (2016), Hu et al. (2017)
Kuro-o. (2010); 2012; Kuro-o. (2019), Kuro-o. (2021)
Maquigussa et al. (2018)
Oishi et al. (2021)
Prud’homme et al. 2017a, 2020
Saar-Kovrov et al. (2021)
Takenaka et al. (2017)
Xing et al. (2021)
Zou et al., (2018)
Cardiovascular Arterial/aortic calcification, Atheroslerosis, Cardiomyopathy, Cardiac hypertrophy, Hypertension, Myocardial ischemic injury/infarct Chen K, et al. (2021)
Freunlich et al. (2021)
Manrique et al. (2016)
Myung et al. (2022)
Martin-Nunez et al. (2022)
Olejnik et al., 2018, 2020
Tyrenkov et al. (2021)
Wang F and Zheng, (2022)
Yang et al. (2015)
Brain Alzheimer’s disease (β-amyloid and Tau protein pathologies), hippocampal neuronal loss (Klotho promotes regeneration), cognitive deficits, frailty Dias et al. (2021)
Driscoll et al. (2021)
Cararo-Lopes et al. (2017)
Fung et al. (2022)
Hanson et al. (2021)
Kundu et al. (2022)
Laszczyk et al. (2017)
Mytych, (2022)
Nietzel et al. (2021)
Sanz et al. (2021)
Cancer Loss of Klotho’s tumor suppressor function (Klotho protects against multiple cancer types) Doi et al. (2011)
Ewendt et al. (2021)
Rubinek and Wolf, (2016)
Sachdeva et al. (2020)
Lungs Pulmonary fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Huang Q. et al. (2020)
Gao et al. (2015)
Bones Osteoporosis, osteomalacia from chronic kidney disease Kuro-o. (2017). 2019, 2021
Tasnim et al. (2021)
Metabolism, Diabetes Pancreatic β-cell apoptosis in type 1 and 2 diabetes, glucose and lipid homeostasis, regeneration of β cells, autoimmunity and inflammation (insulitis) Keles et al. (2016)
Landry et al., 2021a,b
Lin and Sun, 2012, 2015a, 2015b
Nie et al. (2017)
Prud’homme et al. (2017a), 2020
Razzaque. (2012); Takenata et al. (2019)