KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY IMAGE: LOW DOSE METFORMIN WAS FOUND TO HAVE A NEPHROPROTECTIVE EFFECT SIMILAR TO LOSARTAN. CREDIT: PROFESSOR HIROFUMI KAI Researchers from Kumamoto University(Japan) have found that the anti-diabetic drug metformin significantly prolongs the survival of mice in a model that simulates the pathology of non-diabetic chronic kidney disease (ND-CKD) by ameliorating pathological conditions like reduced...
