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
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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 progression of diabetic glomerular…
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