Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Aldose reductase (ALR2), a NADPH-dependent aldo-keto reductase (AKR), is widely distributed in mammalian tissues and has been implicated in complications of diabetes, including diabetic nephropathy. 10944187 2000
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Aldose reductase and the role of the polyol pathway in diabetic nephropathy. 10997684 2000
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Aldose reductase expression is induced by hyperglycemia in diabetic nephropathy. 11422753 2001
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Aldose reductase gene polymorphism is associated with progression of diabetic nephropathy in Japanese patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. 12542725 2003
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Aldose reductase and sorbitol dehydrogenase protein levels in the patients with diabetic nephropathy were significantly increased in PBMCs cultured in high-glucose conditions. 16644704 2006
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Analysis of the association between diabetic nephropathy and polymorphisms in the aldose reductase gene in Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes mellitus. 11703436 2001
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Another pathway relevant to diabetic nephropathy is polyol pathway, where glucose is reduced to sorbitol by aldose reductase. 11841617 2002
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE As AKR1B1 is located on 7q35, where we have previously reported linkage to diabetic nephropathy in Pima Indians, this study examined the association of AKR1B1 variants with diabetic nephropathy in this population. 16620264 2006
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Association between DN and two DNA sequence variants in the promoter region of the AR gene implicates the polyol pathway in the development of kidney complications in Type 1 diabetes mellitus. 10746480 2000
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Association of aldose reductase gene Z+2 polymorphism with reduced susceptibility to diabetic nephropathy in Caucasian Type 1 diabetic patients. 15270790 2004
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN Autoimmune hypoglycemia in a type 2 diabetic patient with anti-insulin and insulin receptor antibodies. 14694017 2004
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE In conclusion, our study strongly suggests that multiple roles for aldose reductase may give it a more complex place in diabetic nephropathy than is currently recognized. 12166624 2002
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In conclusion, the results of our association study in Caucasian patients with Type II diabetes do not support the hypothesis that the 5'-ALR2 polymorphism in the aldose reductase gene contributes to susceptibility to diabetic nephropathy. 10027585 1999
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Multiple metabolic pathways of DKD have been evaluated with varying success; including mitochondrial function, reactive oxygen species, NADPH oxidase (NOX), transcription factors (NF-B and Nrf2), advanced glycation, protein kinase C (PKC), aldose reductase, JAK-STAT, autophagy, apoptosis-signaling kinase 1 (ASK1), fibrosis and epigenetics. 31154867 2019
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN Phenotypic heterogeneity and associations of two aldose reductase gene polymorphisms with nephropathy and retinopathy in type 2 diabetes: response to Wang et al. 14694018 2004
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Robust and specific inhibition of aldose reductase might be an effective strategy for the prevention and treatment of diabetic nephropathy. 21267539 2011
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Significant differences were found between AR rs759853 polymorphism and susceptibility of DN from both type 1 and type 2 diabetes in all genetic models (allele contrast, OR = 1.37, CI (1.18, 1.59), P < 0.0001; additive model, OR = 1.78, CI (1.25, 2.53), P = 0.01; recessive model OR = 1.33 CI (1.08, 1.63), P = 0.008; dominant model, OR = 1.52, CI (1.26, 1.84), P < 0.0001; codominance model OR = 1.30 (1.15, 1.47), P < 0.0001). 25885804 2015
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The -106C>T polymorphism in the promoter region of the aldose reductase (AR) gene has been shown to be associated with the susceptibility to diabetic nephropathy in type 2 diabetes, but the findings regarding the occurrence of diabetic retinopathy are conflicting. 16545977 2006
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The 5' -ALR2 dinucleotide repeat polymorphism is associated with the development of diabetic nephropathy in Southern Chinese with Type 2 diabetes. 11874426 2002
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The C-106T polymorphism in the AR gene is a risk factor for development of diabetic nephropathy in type 2 diabetes in patients with poor glycaemic control. 15637423 2005
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The aim of this study therefore, was to investigate the relationship between the aldose reductase gene and type 2 diabetic microvascular complications such as diabetic nephropathy and retinopathy. 11796181 2002
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The aim of this study was to investigate the possible beneficial effects of 1-acetyl-5-phenyl-1H-pyrrol-3-ylacetate (APPA), an aldose reductase inhibitor, on DN. 28802633 2017
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The aim of this study was to investigate whether high glucose induces aldose reductase (AKR1B1) expression through NFkappaB, which may contribute to the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy. 18325349 2008
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN The C-106T polymorphism in the AR gene is a risk factor for development of diabetic nephropathy in type 2 diabetes in patients with poor glycaemic control. 15637423 2005
CUI: C0011881
Disease: Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetic Nephropathy
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The data suggested that epalrestat has protective effects on DN, and the inhibition of aldose reductase and the modulation of polyol pathway in nephritic cells be a potentially therapeutic strategy for DN. 29930278 2019