Research Article: Renoprotection by Inhibiting Connexin Expression in a Mouse Model of Obesity-Related Renal Injury
Introduction:
Obesity has many impacts on children’s health, which could lead to various metabolic disorders and increase the risks of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, renal injury, and chronic kidney diseases in their adulthood, and the potential pathogenic mechanisms include chronic metabolic inflammation, oxidative stress, insulin resistance and others. It has been reported that microalbuminuria is the early clinical manifestation of obesity-related renal injury in children. The main pathological manifestations of…
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