A protein related to kidney failure which could lead to a breakthrough for new interventions to treat the disease has been keyed.

The research team studied three mouse models of kidney fibrosis.
One group of mice contained HIV viral proteins incorporated into their genome.
The second group was injected with a high dose of folic acid.
In the third group, kidney filtration was blocked in one kidney.
All of these factors caused kidney fibrosis, Xinhua reported.
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They found that HIPK2, a protein kinase, or regulator, was highly active in the mice with kidney fibrosis.
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The study was published this week in Nature Medicine.
Source-IANS