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New insights into diagnostic values and mechanisms of ferroptosis associated with immune infiltration in diabetic kidney disease

Key takeaways

Researchers studied ferroptosis, a kind of cell death driven by iron, in kidney disease caused by diabetes. They point to genes tied to that process and to immune cells in the kidney, and suggest these could become tests for the disease. The work was done in tissue samples and lab analysis, not in people given a treatment. There is nothing here a patient can act on yet.

Who did this work

Ying Tan (Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine) · Zihui Liu (Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine) · Siyuan Song (Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine) · Lingling Zhu (Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine) · Yun She (Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine) · Xiqiao Zhou (Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine) · Jiangyi Yu (Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine) · Qianhua Yan (Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, Kidney disease concept sweep (verified C2778653478) · 2026-08-28
https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2026.13278