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Quercetin Alleviates Ferroptosis-Induced Renal Fibrosis by Modulating the PRDM9/HMOX1/PTGS2 Axis

Key takeaways

This lab study reports that quercetin, a natural compound found in foods like onions and apples, reduced kidney scarring (fibrosis). The authors link the effect to blocking ferroptosis, a type of cell death driven by iron. It was done in the lab, in animals or cells, not in people yet. No abstract was available, so the size of the effect and the study details are unknown.

Who did this work

Qiongqiong Zhu (Yueqing People's Hospital) · Zhibin Chen (Yueqing People's Hospital) · Xianxian Yu (Yueqing People's Hospital) · Ye Qiu (Yueqing People's Hospital) · Xu Chen (Yueqing People's Hospital)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, CKD works · 2026-09-16
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.6c05732