title: [Kidney disease and insulin resistance--clinical impact of thiazolidinedione compounds for kidney disease].
abstract: The thiazolidinedione compounds are well known hypoglycemic agents via increasing insulin-sensitivity. Herein, we provide the possibility that thiazolidinedione compounds could be useful for renal dysfunction through mechanism dependent or independent of its insulin-sensitizing action. In type 2 diabetes, troglitazone could reduce urinary albumin-creatinine ratio compared to metformin. Furthermore, we have shown that troglitazone was able to prevent diabetic glomerular dysfunction through inhibition of diacylglycerol-protein kinase C-extracellular signal-regulated kinase pathway in type 1 diabetic rats. Thus, thiazolidinediones might be effective agents for treating insulin-resistant diabetes as well as diabetes-induced kidney disease.
authors.affiliation: Third Department of Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Isshiki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haneda
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Koya
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kikkawa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002839:Chromans / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007333:Insulin Resistance; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D051381:Rats; D013844:Thiazoles / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D045162:Thiazolidinediones; D000077288:Troglitazone
chemical_list: D002839:Chromans; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents; D013844:Thiazoles; D045162:Thiazolidinediones; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D000077288:Troglitazone