Angiopoietin-like 4 based therapeutics for proteinuria and kidney disease

• Main Authors: Sumant Singh Chugh (Author), Camille eMace (Author), Lionel C Clement (Author), Maria eDel Nogal Avila (Author), Caroline eMarshall (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Current drugs used to treat proteinuric disorders of the kidney have been borrowed from other branches of medicine, and are only partially effective. The discovery of a central, mechanistic role played by two different forms of the secreted glycoprotein Angiopoietin-like 4 (Angptl4) in human and exp...