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ArticleWorld journal of diabetes2023

Potential therapeutic targets for the prevention of diabetic nephropathy: Glycyrrhetinic acid.

Lu Cai, Michael Horowitz, Md Shahidul Islam

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Article in World journal of diabetes, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lu CaiPediatric Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, United States. lu.cai@louisville.edu.
Michael HorowitzDepartment of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia.
Md Shahidul IslamDepartment of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4000, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
University of Adelaide · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Uncontrolled hyperglycemia or poorly managed disease increases the propensity for a number of diabetes-related complications targeting major organs including the heart, eyes, and kidney. Although the mechanisms by which diabetes induces cardiovascular diseases include oxidative stress and inflammation, when insulin resistance remains the key to the pathogenesis, as implicated in the two reviews in this issue. This editorial mainly comments on the potential preventive application of glycyrrhetinic acid (or 18β-GA) in relation to diabetic nephropathy. The thera-peutic or preventive effects of 18β-GA, as a hydrolytic product of glycyrrhizic acid that is a component of licorice, have been appreciated in other disorders, but have received much less attention in relation to diabetic complications. A study in this issue has identified 18β-GA as a therapeutic for preventing diabetic nephropathy and provides evidence to support efficacy in cultured human renal tubule cells

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Chinese herbal remedyDiabetic cardiomyopathyDiabetic nephropathyGlycyrrhetinic acidInsulin resistanceLicorice

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PMID38222784
PMCPMC10784793
OpenAlexW4389765003

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