Commentary Open Access
Volume 4 | Issue 3 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/Signaling.4.097
The Finer Points of Podocyte Sphingolipid Metabolism in Diabetic Kidney Disease
Alla Mitrofanova1,2, Rachel Njeim1,2, Alessia Fornoni1,2,*
- 1Katz Family Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
- 2Peggy and Harold Katz Family Drug Discovery Center, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
Corresponding Author
Alla Mitrofanova, a.mitrofanova@miami.edu
Received Date: June 05, 2023
Accepted Date: July 06, 2023
Mitrofanova A, Njeim R, Fornoni A. The Finer Points of Podocyte Sphingolipid Metabolism in Diabetic Kidney Disease. J Cell Signal. 2023;4(3):99-103.
Copyright: © 2023 Mitrofanova A et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords
C1P, Ceramdie, DKD, Podocyte, S1P, Sphingolipid
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