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ArticleBiomedicines2020

Carnosine Activates Cellular Stress Response in Podocytes and Reduces Glycative and Lipoperoxidative Stress.

Maria Scuto, Angela Trovato Salinaro, Sergio Modafferi, Alessandra Polimeni, Tilman Pfeffer, Tim Weigand, Vittorio Calabrese, Claus Peter Schmitt, Verena Peters

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Article in Biomedicines, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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22citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Maria ScutoDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1019-5158
Angela Trovato SalinaroDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2377-858X
Sergio ModafferiDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9441-0507
Alessandra PolimeniDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy.
Tilman PfefferCentre for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University of Heidelberg, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
Tim WeigandCentre for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University of Heidelberg, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
Vittorio CalabreseDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0478-985X
Claus Peter SchmittCentre for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University of Heidelberg, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
Verena PetersCentre for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University of Heidelberg, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4649-0848
Heidelberg University · DEUniversity of Catania · IT

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft CRC 1118
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Carnosine improves diabetic complications, including diabetic nephropathy, in in vivo models. To further understand the underlying mechanism of nephroprotection, we studied the effect of carnosine under glucose-induced stress on cellular stress response proteins in murine immortalized podocytes, essential for glomerular function. High-glucose stress initiated stress response by increasing intracellular heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70), sirtuin-1 (Sirt-1), thioredoxin (Trx), glutamate-cysteine ligase (gamma-glutamyl cysteine synthetase; γ-GCS) and heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) in podocytes by 30-50% compared to untreated cells. Carnosine (1 mM) also induced a corresponding upregulation of these intracellular stress markers, which was even more prominent compared to glucose for Hsp70 (21%), γ-GCS and HO-1 (13% and 20%, respectively; all

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carnosinediabetic nephropathy cellular stress responseglucoseoxidative stressvitagenes

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PMID32604897
PMCPMC7344982
OpenAlexW3037889833

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