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ReviewVascular health and risk management2008

Fibrosis in diabetes complications: pathogenic mechanisms and circulating and urinary markers.

Camelia R Ban, Stephen M Twigg

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Review in Vascular health and risk management, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 144 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

144 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  10. Prevalence of Hepatic Steatosis and Fibrosis in Asian Indian Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2025
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  14. Update: the role of epigenetics in the metabolic memory of diabetic complications.American journal of physiology. Renal physiology · 2024
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  18. Multi-organ single-cell RNA sequencing in mice reveals early hyperglycemia responses that converge on fibroblast dysregulation.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Camelia R BanDiscipline of Medicine and Department of Endocrinology, The University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney, New South Wales, 2006, Australia.
Stephen M Twigg

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is characterized by a lack of insulin causing elevated blood glucose, often with associated insulin resistance. Over time, especially in genetically susceptible individuals, such chronic hyperglycemia can cause tissue injury. One pathological response to tissue injury is the development of fibrosis, which involves predominant extracellular matrix (ECM) accumulation. The main factors that regulate ECM in diabetes are thought to be pro-sclerotic cytokines and protease/anti-protease systems. This review will examine the key markers and regulators of tissue fibrosis in diabetes and whether their levels in biological fluids may have clinical utility.

Indexed as

AnimalsBasement MembraneBiomarkersCardiomyopathiesConnective Tissue Growth FactorDiabetes ComplicationsDiabetic AngiopathiesDiabetic NephropathiesDiabetic RetinopathyEndothelium, VascularExtracellular MatrixFatty LiverFibrosisGlycation End Products, AdvancedHeart DiseasesHeart FailureBiomarkersCCN2 protein, humanConnective Tissue Growth FactorGlycation End Products, AdvancedImmediate-Early ProteinsIntercellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsMetalloproteasesPeptide FragmentsProcollagenprocollagen Type III-N-terminal peptideTransforming Growth Factor betadiabetic complicationsextracellular matrixmarkers

Identifiers

PMID18827908
PMCPMC2515418

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