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SUBMITTER: Lee M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7290306 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Minyoung M Park Ho Seon HS Choi Min Yeong MY Kim Hak Zoo HZ Moon Sung Jin SJ Ha Ji Yoon JY Choi ARim A Park Young Woo YW Park Jong Suk JS Shin Eui-Cheol EC Ahn Chul Woo CW Kang Shinae S
Journal of clinical medicine 20200508 5
Cluster of differentiation 93 (CD93) is a glycoprotein expressed in activated endothelial cells. The extracellular portion of CD93 can be secreted as a soluble form (sCD93) under inflammatory conditions. As diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a well-known inflammatory disease, we hypothesized that sCD93 would be a new biomarker for DN. We prospectively enrolled 97 patients with type 2 diabetes and evaluated the association between serum sCD93 and DN prevalence. The association between CD93 and developm ...[more]