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Hemin therapy improves kidney function in male streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats: role of the heme oxygenase/atrial natriuretic peptide/adiponectin axis.
Endocrinology - 1 Jan 2014
Ndisang Joseph Fomusi, Jadhav Ashok
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Diabetic nephropathy is characterized by elevated macrophage infiltration and inflammation. Although heme-oxygenase (HO) is cytoprotective, its role in macrophage infiltration and nephropathy in type 1 diabetes is not completely elucidated. Administering the HO inducer, hemin, to streptozotocin-diabetic rats suppressed renal proinflammatory macrophage-M1 phenotype alongside several proinflammatory agents,...
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