Pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy: focus on transforming growth factor-β and connective tissue growth factor
- 1 November 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension
- Vol. 10 (6), 727-738
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00041552-200111000-00001
Abstract
Although considerable improvement in the prognosis of diabetic nephropathy has been achieved in recent years due to intensive insulin and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor treatment, these approaches do not provide complete protection against progression of diabetic nephropathy. An urgent need for additional novel therapies to prevent or further slow the progression of diabetic nephropathy motivated us to provide an up-to-date review with particular emphasis on the potential role of two growth factors--transforming growth factor-beta and connective tissue growth factor--in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy. The most intensively studied to date, transforming growth factor-beta appears to play a central role in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy. Recently, attention has focused on connective tissue growth factor, which mimics the biological activity of transforming growth factor-beta in profibrotic tissue formation. Thus, acting as a downstream mediator of the profibrotic activity of transforming growth factor-beta, connective tissue growth factor may constitute a more specific target for future antifibrotic therapies.Keywords
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