Relation between cytokines and diabetic nephropathy

ISBN-13: 9783659466090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 160 str.

Amira Abdallah; Hanaa Ahmed; Emad Eskander

Opis

- Diabetes is a very common disease. - Nephropathy is 0ne of a microvascular complication of diabetes. - Cytokines have a critical role in pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy. - Cytokines such as transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1), connective tissue growth factor (CTGF), monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP 1) and fibronectin (FN)may cause inflammation or fibrosis or both in diabetic nephropathy.

O autorze

Education:Master degree in biochemistry, Faculty of pharmacy, Ain Shams university, Cairo, Egypt.Publication:Paper titled Clinical significance of inflammatory and fibrogenic cytokines in diabetic nephropathy was published in Clinical Biochemistry.Current job:-Researcher assistant in Hormone department, Medical Division,National Research Centre