Publications by Renuga Devi Rajaram

Differential role of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide deficiency in acute and chronic kidney disease

Johan Auwerx, Elena Katsyuba, Adrienne Joëlle Laurence Mottis, Joseph Rutkowski, Renuga Devi Rajaram

Background. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD(+)) is a ubiquitous coenzyme involved in electron transport and a cosubstrate for sirtuin function. NAD(+) deficiency has been demonstrated in the context of acute kidney injury (AKI). Methods. We studied ...

2021

The secreted protease Adamts18 links hormone action to activation of the mammary stem cell niche

Cathrin Brisken, Giovanna Ambrosini, Marian Caikovski, Dalya Ataca, Philipp Bucher, Renuga Devi Rajaram, Patrik Aouad, Marie Shamseddin, Céline Berthe Constantin, Csaba Ferenc László

Estrogens and progesterone control breast development and carcinogenesis via their cognate receptors expressed in a subset of luminal cells in the mammary epithelium. How they control the extracellular matrix, important to breast physiology and tumorigenes ...

Nature Research2020

Regulation of NAD plus biosynthesis pathway in chronic kidney disease

Johan Auwerx, Adrienne Joëlle Laurence Mottis, Renuga Devi Rajaram

E M H SWISS MEDICAL PUBLISHERS LTD2019

Progesterone and Wnt4 control mammary stem cells via myoepithelial crosstalk

Cathrin Brisken, Jacques Rougemont, Ayyakkannu Ayyanan, Marian Caikovski, Duje Buric, Renuga Devi Rajaram

Ovarian hormones increase breast cancer risk by poorly understood mechanisms. We assess the role of progesterone on global stem cell function by serially transplanting mouse mammary epithelia. Progesterone receptor (PR) deletion severely reduces the regene ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Paracrine signaling by progesterone

Cathrin Brisken, Renuga Devi Rajaram

Steroid hormones coordinate and control the development and function of many organs and are implicated in many pathological processes. Progesterone signaling, in particular, is essential for several important female reproductive functions. Physiological ef ...

Elsevier2012

Role of canonical Wnt signaling in mammary gland development

Renuga Devi Rajaram

The female reproductive hormones estrogens, progesterone, and prolactin control postnatal breast development and are important to breast carcinogenesis. In particular, exposure to progesterone is tightly linked to breast cancer risk. Using the mouse as a m ...

EPFL2010

Alveolar and Lactogenic Differentiation

Cathrin Brisken, Renuga Devi Rajaram

National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Oncology, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), 155 Chemin des Boveresses, CH-1066, Epalinges, Lausanne, Switzerland. 000116136 520__ ...

Springer, Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com2006