Faculty Biography

Laminin-521 is a Novel Target of Autoantibodies Associated with Lung Hemorrhage in Anti-GBM Disease.
Cong-Rong Shen, Xiao-Yu Jia, Wentian Luo, Florina Olaru, Zhao Cui, Ming-Hui Zhao, Dorin-Bogdan Borza

A glycine substitution in the collagenous domain of Col4a3 in mice recapitulates late onset Alport syndrome.
Christoforos Odiatis, Isavella Savva, Myrtani Pieri, Pavlos Ioannou, Petros Petrou, Gregory Papagregoriou, Kyriaki Antoniadou, Neoklis Makrides, Charalambos Stefanou, Danica Galešić Ljubanović, Georgios Nikolaou, Dorin-Bogdan Borza, Kostas Stylianou, Oliver Gross, Constantinos Deltas

Maternal alloimmune IgG causes anti-glomerular basement membrane disease in perinatal transgenic mice that express human laminin α5.
Dale R Abrahamson, Brooke M Steenhard, Larysa Stroganova, Adrian Zelenchuk, Patricia L St John, Margaret G Petroff, Manuel Patarroyo, Dorin Bogdan Borza

Peroxidasin Is a Novel Target of Autoantibodies in Lupus Nephritis.
Pallavi Manral, Selene Colon, Gautam Bhave, Ming-Hui Zhao, Sanjay Jain, Dorin-Bogdan Borza

Alternative Pathway Is Essential for Glomerular Complement Activation and Proteinuria in a Mouse Model of Membranous Nephropathy.
Wentian Luo, Florina Olaru, Jeffrey H Miner, Laurence H Beck, Johan van der Vlag, Joshua M Thurman, Dorin-Bogdan Borza

Glomerular basement membrane heparan sulfate in health and disease: A regulator of local complement activation.