Ruiz-Ortega Marta, Rodrigues-Diez Raul R, Lavoz Carolina, Rayego-Mateos Sandra
Molecular and Cellular Biology in Renal and Vascular Pathology, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz-UniversidadAutónoma Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Red de Investigación Renal (REDINREN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
J Clin Med. 2020 Mar 17;9(3):813. doi: 10.3390/jcm9030813.
Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is the main cause of end-stage renal disease. DN is a complex disease mediated by genetic and environmental factors, and many cellular and molecular mechanisms are involved in renal damage in diabetes. There are no biomarkers that reflect the severity of the underlying renal histopathological changes and can effectively predict the progression of renal damage and stratify the risk of DN among individuals with diabetes mellitus. Current therapeutic strategies are based on the strict control of glucose and blood pressure levels and, although there are new anti-diabetic drugs, these treatments only retard renal damage progression, being necessary novel therapies. In this Special Issue, there are several comprehensive reviews and interesting original papers covering all these topics, which would be of interest to the growing number of readers of the .
糖尿病肾病(DN)是终末期肾病的主要病因。DN是一种由遗传和环境因素介导的复杂疾病,糖尿病患者肾脏损伤涉及多种细胞和分子机制。目前尚无能够反映潜在肾脏组织病理学变化严重程度、有效预测肾脏损伤进展以及对糖尿病患者的DN风险进行分层的生物标志物。当前的治疗策略基于严格控制血糖和血压水平,尽管有新型抗糖尿病药物,但这些治疗仅能延缓肾脏损伤进展,因此需要新的治疗方法。在本期特刊中,有几篇涵盖所有这些主题的全面综述和有趣的原创论文,这将吸引越来越多的《》读者。