Update on the role of angiogenesis in diabetes associated nephropathy

Diabetic mellitus is common worldwide health problem which brings about different rigorous complications like retinopathy, nephropathy and numerous other lethal complications. Diabetic nephropathy is the major cause for blindness and renal failure in many of the developing countries. Hyperglycemia induced diabetic nephropathy gets elicited through improved development of reactive oxygen species in multiple cell types. The starting of organ damage or kidney failure shows some symptomatic effect or morphological changes as in one or both the kidneys like expansion or enlargement of kidneys from their original size and this enlargement process is known as nephromegaly. Microalbuminuria is the best possible predictable condition proceeding towards renal failure. This review briefly discussed about the diabetic nephropathy with regard to progression, angiogenic and non-angiogenic factors involved in pathogenesis and treatment of angiogenesis in diabetic nephropathy.