Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Renal involvement in T2DM can be due to diabetes per se (Diabetic Kidney Disease) or causes other than diabetes (non-diabetic kidney disease). Currently available clinical, biochemical, and radiological markers fail to differentiate DKD from NDKD. Renal biopsy remains gold standard for diagnosis. Urinary signatures may provide a non-invasive alternative to that end. In cell culture and in animal models with diabetes and kidney disease, dysregulation of several meta...