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Antibody blockade of c-fms suppresses the progression of inflammation and injury in early diabetic nephropathy in obese db/db mice.
Diabetologia - 1 Aug 2009
Lim A K H, Ma F Y, Nikolic-Paterson D J, Thomas M C, Hurst L A, Tesch G H
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Macrophage-mediated renal injury plays an important role in the development of diabetic nephropathy. Colony-stimulating factor (CSF)-1 is a cytokine that is produced in diabetic kidneys and promotes macrophage accumulation, activation and survival. CSF-1 acts exclusively through the c-fms receptor, which is only expressed on cells of the monocyte-macrophage lineage. Therefore, we used c-fms...
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