The Promise of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Diabetic Kidney Disease

Current Diabetes Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Griffin, Tomás P ^a,b   Martin, William Patrick ^a,b   Islam, Nahidul ^a   O’Brien, Timothy ^a,b   Griffin, Matthew D ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Diabetic nephropathy; Inflammation; Mesenchymal stem cells; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 21; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 23; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; KIDNEY INJURY MOLECULE 1; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; NEUTROPHIL GELATINASE ASSOCIATED LIPOCALIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B; PROTEIN KINASE C; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BONE MARROW DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; CAPILLARY BASEMENT MEMBRANE THICKENING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; REVIEW; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ANIMAL; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; INFLAMMATION; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 84961692504     PISSN: 15344827     EISSN: 15390829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11892-016-0734-6     Document Type: Review

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