Abstract
Kidney fibrosis is a hallmark of chronic kidney disease yet is poorly treated. Chang etal. determined that plasma and kidney levels of the vascular growth factor, angiopoietin-2, were elevated in patients with chronic kidney disease and mice with kidney disease. Angiopoietin-2 inhibited the renoprotective effects of angiopoietin-1 and promoted CC chemokine ligand 2-mediated kidney damage, endothelial cell apoptosis, vascular rarefaction, inflammation, fibrosis, and kidney dysfunction. Hence, therapeutically inhibiting angiopoietin-2 may represent a novel means of treating these chronic kidney disease-associated pathologies.
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