Abstract

Current immunosuppression regimens for lupus nephritis are incompletely effective, placing patients at risk for poor long-term outcomes. This emphasizes the need to dissect pathogenic mechanisms in lupus nephritis, to inform the development of targeted therapies. In this issue of Kidney International, Parikh etal. performed transcriptomic analysis of pretreatment and posttreatment protocol kidney biopsies, segregated into glomerular and tubulointerstitial compartments, to identify candidate molecular pathways distinguishing treatment responders and nonresponders.

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