Pancreatic Kininogenase Ameliorates Renal Fibrosis in Streptozotocin Induced-Diabetic Nephropathy Rat

• Main Authors: Dan Zhu (Author), Linlin Zhang (Author), Lijuan Cheng (Author), Liansheng Ren (Author), Jie Tang (Author), Dianjun Sun (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background/Aims: We aimed to evaluate whether pancreatic kininogenase (PKase) can relieve renal fibrosis and investigate its mechanisms in diabetic nephropathy (DN) rats Methods: We established streptozotocin (STZ) induced-DN rats. After treatment with PKase for 4 weeks, urinary weight, urinary prot...