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GSK-3 inhibitors

cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK)/glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) inhibitors

CDK/GSK-3 inhibitors suppress pathogenic proliferation, apoptosis, and inflammation, and promote regeneration of injured tissue.

Preclinical efficacy has now been demonstrated in mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis, crescentic glomerulonephritis, collapsing glomerulopathy, proliferative lupus nephritis, polycystic kidney diseases, diabetic nephropathy, and several forms of acute kidney injury.

References

- Obligado SH, Ibraghimov-Beskrovnaya O, Zuk A, Meijer L, Nelson PJ. CDK/GSK-3 inhibitors as therapeutic agents for parenchymal renal diseases. Kidney Int. 2008 Mar;73(6):684-90. PMID: 18094678