Impact of cigarette smoking on kidney inflammation and fibrosis in diabetic rats.

CONCLUSION: Cigarette smoke might promote risk of kidney dysfunction in DM by augmentation of renal inflammation, oxidant radicals and fibrosis. The kidney promotes compensatory increase in MMP-2 in response to smoking probably to prevent pro-fibrotic factors induced-fibrosis. PMID: 30947565 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Inhalation Toxicology - Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Inhal Toxicol Source Type: research