This finding is consistent with our and others’ previous findings in diseased glomeruli and other kidney diseases, showing that local cellular HuR is aberrantly increased in kidney diseases in response to various forms of damage/injury [12, 16, 17, 38, 39], and the kidney transcriptome data that show mRNA expression levels of HuR in kidneys from CKD patients are much higher than those in healthy living donors (2.113-fold ↑, p = 0.006, www.nephroseq.org). Here, ELAVL1 is linked to chronic kidney disease.