Kidney disease

November 15, 2017
Published by admin_auro at November 15, 2017
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Molecular therapy for Diabetic nephropathy (DN):  Atorvastatin (trade name: Lipitor), a lipid-lowering medication, 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, 15/November/2017, 5.38 am

Introduction: What they say A study from the Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA shows that “Pyruvate kinase M2 activation may protect against the […]
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June 23, 2017
Published by admin_auro at June 23, 2017
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Natural product-derived therapy for Diabetic Kidney disease: Methyl Jasmonate (MeJA), isolated from Jasmine, decreases VEGF-B expression, inhibits lipid accumulation in Podocytes, promotes insulin signalling in Podocytes, induces insulin sensitivity, ameliorates renal dysfunction and alleviates diabetic kidney disease via down regulation of its target gene, 23/June/2017, 9.39 am

Introduction: What they say A study from the Division of Vascular Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden shows that […]
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