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FOXO4 enhances high glucose-induced HK-2 cell damage and inflammation by targeting TFPI2 in diabetic nephropathy.

Key takeaways

In lab-grown human kidney cells, high sugar caused damage and inflammation. A protein called FOXO4 made this worse by acting on another protein, TFPI2. This was done in cells, not in people, so it only hints at how kidney damage from diabetes may work. There is no patient result here yet.

Who did this work

Mu L (Department of General Medicine, First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.) · Zhao Y (Department of General Medicine, First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.) · Li Y (Department of General Medicine, First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.) · Gao W (Department of General Medicine, First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.) · Wang J (Department of General Medicine, First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China. [email protected].)

Source

Paper · Europe PMC, CKD · 2026-08-20
https://doi.org/10.23876/j.krcp.25.389