Autophagy activity and expression pattern of autophagy-related markers in the podocytes of patients with lupus nephritis: association with pathological classification.

CONCLUSIONS: Autophagy activity and expression pattern of autophagy-related markers in podocytes were significantly positively correlated with LN of types III, IV, and V-IV, but negatively correlated with II and V types. Therefore autophagy could be a useful predictor of LN pathology type, and be informative and helpful in the development of treatment strategies in clinical settings. PMID: 31014158 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Renal Failure - Category: Urology & Nephrology Tags: Ren Fail Source Type: research