CCL2 and acute kidney injury: Moreover, LRNA9884 is also involved in the pathogenesis of acute kidney injury (AKI), which is highly expressed in the tubular epithelial cells of AKI kidneys, promoting IL-1β-induced inflammatory cytokine production (MCP-1, TNF-α, and IL-6) via transcriptional regulation of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) to trigger MIF/NF-κB pathway [75].