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High Elmo1 expression aggravates and low Elmo1 expression prevents diabetic nephropathy.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 23 Feb 2016
Hathaway Catherine K, Chang Albert S, Grant Ruriko, Kim Hyung-Suk, Madden Victoria J, Bagnell C Robert, Jennette J Charles, Smithies Oliver, Kakoki Masao
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Human genome-wide association studies have demonstrated that polymorphisms in the engulfment and cell motility protein 1 gene (ELMO1) are strongly associated with susceptibility to diabetic nephropathy. However, proof of causation is lacking. To test whether modest changes in its expression alter the severity of the renal phenotype in diabetic mice, we have generated mice that are type 1 diabetic because they...
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