Review

Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology & Metabolism (2008) 4, 285-293
doi:10.1038/ncpendmet0786  
Received 27 November 2007 | Accepted 1 February 2008 | Published online: 11 March 2008

Mechanisms of Disease: advanced glycation end-products and their receptor in inflammation and diabetes complications

Shi Fang Yan, Ravichandran Ramasamy and Ann Marie Schmidt*

Correspondence *Division of Surgical Science, Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, 630 West 168th Street, P&S 17-401, New York, NY 10032, USA

Email
 ams11@columbia.edu

Injury to the vasculature is an important adverse outcome in diabetes. In this Review, Yan et al. explore how advanced glycation end-products and their main receptor, RAGE, might have roles in the development of diabetes and some of its complications–nephropathy, atherosclerosis and inflammatory response–through activation of inflammatory signaling cascades.

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