Immune Response Drives Diabetes-Induced Kidney Damage (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Immune Response Drives Diabetes-Induced Kidney Damage (2 of 3)

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Normal control Bama mini-pigs from Bama County, Guanxi Province, China are shown. These animals possess characteristic small size, stable genetics, and uniform phenotypes. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 19, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y. Feng at Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing, China, and colleagues was titled, "Role of Toll-like receptors in diabetic renal lesions in a miniature pig model."

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[Credit: Shulin Yang]

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