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Lipotoxicity in diabetic nephropathy: the potential role of fatty acid oxidation.
Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - 1 Dec 2010
Murea Mariana, Freedman Barry I, Parks John S, Antinozzi Peter A, Elbein Steven C, Ma Lijun
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Cellular toxicity mediated by lipids (lipotoxicity) has been implicated in the pathophysiology of metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus. Genetic analyses now implicate lipotoxicity in susceptibility to type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated nephropathy (T2DN), a pathway that had previously been unexplored. A genome-wide association study in Japanese patients identified a single nucleotide polymorphism in the...
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