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Lipotoxic and inflammatory phenotypes in rats with uncontrolled metabolic syndrome and nephropathy.
American journal of physiology. Renal physiology - 1 Sept 2007
Dominguez Jesus, Wu Pengfei, Packer C Subah, Temm Constance, Kelly Katherine J
Abstract excerpt
Anomalous inflammatory responses triggered by the metabolic syndrome cause renal injury. This discovery links renal lipid accumulation with lipotoxicity to inflammation and may explain the insidious fibrosis and cellular decay characteristic of nephropathy in the metabolic syndrome. However, it is not clear whether control of inflammation protects the kidney independently of lipid accumulation, which is a...
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