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BMP7 is a podocyte survival factor and rescues podocytes from diabetic injury.
American journal of physiology. Renal physiology - 1 Nov 2007
Mitu Grace M, Wang Shinong, Hirschberg Raimund
Abstract excerpt
In early diabetic renal injury, there is podocyte drop-out (but no decrease in the number of other glomerular cells) which is thought to cause glomerular proteinuria and subsequent diabetic glomerular injury. We tested the hypothesis that early diabetic podocyte injury is caused, in part, by down...
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