[This paper will review the experimental and clinical evidence on the use of GAGs in renal disease other than diabetic nephropathy, following the reports of experimental findings supporting their use and the possible mechanisms involved: anticoagulant and antiproliferative activity, effect on growth factors (PDGF, FGF2 and TGF-beta1), inhibition of heparanase, macrophage renal infiltration and of the renin-angiotensin system, and decrease in proteinuria.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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