Recombinant human erythropoietin attenuates renal tubulointerstitial injury in murine adriamycin-induced nephropathy.

Conclusions: EPO provides renoprotection against AN by reducing apoptotic cell death and preserving peritubular capillaries, possibly by exerting pleiotropic effects independently of its hemopoietic effects.
PMID: 22684648 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)