Drug Discovery for Overcoming Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD): Development of Drugs on Endothelial Cell Protection for Overcoming CKD

• Main Authors: Keisuke Ishizawa (Author), Kunihisa Yamaguchi (Author), Yuya Horinouchi (Author), Yayoi Fukuhara (Author), Soichiro Tajima (Author), Shuichi Hamano (Author), Shuhei Tomita (Author), Koichiro Tsuchiya (Author), Toshiaki Tamaki (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is becoming a major public health problem worldwide. It is important to protect endothelial function in CKD treatment because injury of the endothelium is a critical event for the generation and progression of CKD. Recently, clinical studies showed that nifedipine, an an...