Molecular therapy for Diabetic nephropathy (DN): Fosinopril(Trade name: Monopril), an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor used in the treatment of hypertension, increases Pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2) expression, decreases toxic glucose metabolites, mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis, augments glycolytic flux and PGC-1α levels, improves metabolic abnormalities, albuminuria, glomerular pathology, and renal dysfunction and alleviates diabetic nephropathy via down regulation of its target gene, 23/January/2018, 5.23 am
January 22, 2018Molecular therapy for Metastatic cancers: Metformin, an anti-hyperglycemic drug, increases the expression of tumor suppressor/DNA repair protein Fas Ligand (FasL) and hMSH, inhibits cell cycle progression, and suppresses migration, invasion and metastasis of cancer cells via up regulation of its target gene, 23/January/2018, 11.17 pm
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