Obesity suppresses cellular process critical to kidney health

Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 21:30 in Health & Medicine

Unlike in normal-weight mice with kidney disease, a degradation process called autophagy is suppressed in obese mice with kidney disease. This suppression leads to kidney cell damage. In obese people the same with kidney disease, suppressed autophagy.

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