Dietary soy protein reduces early renal disease progression and alters prostanoid production in obese fa/fa Zucker rats.

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With the rising incidence of obesity and the metabolic syndrome, obesity-associated nephropathy also has increased. One of the earliest pathologies in the development of this nephropathy is glomerular hyperfiltration and hypertrophy. Dietary soy protein (SP) ameliorates disease progression in several models of renal disease, and vegetable sources of protein, as compared to animal sources of protein, alter renal...

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