NFE2L2 and acute kidney injury: Recently, Xiao et al. reported that ferroptosis of renal tubular epithelial cells was occurred in SA-AKI mice, and the results demonstrated that Maresin conjugates in tissue regeneration 1 (MCTR1) could significantly suppress cell ferroptosis in SA-AKI by activating Nrf2 pathway (Xiao et al., 2021).