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SUBMITTER: Kawanami D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5454992 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kawanami Daiji D Matoba Keiichiro K Takeda Yusuke Y Nagai Yosuke Y Akamine Tomoyo T Yokota Tamotsu T Sango Kazunori K Utsunomiya Kazunori K
International journal of molecular sciences 20170518 5
Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a major cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) worldwide. Glycemic and blood pressure (BP) control are important but not sufficient to attenuate the incidence and progression of DN. Sodium-glucose cotransporter (SGLT) 2 inhibitors are a new class of glucose-lowering agent suggested to exert renoprotective effects in glucose lowering-dependent and independent fashions. Experimental studies have shown that SGLT2 inhibitors attenuate DN in animal models of both type 1 ...[more]