“…With the demonstration of a reduced expression of OCTs after 4 weeks of diabetes, this effect is clearly more than just renoprotection. Although aminoguanidine was used in this study as an inhibitor of advanced glycation, aminoguanidine also inhibits the activity of inducible nitric-oxide synthase, which may be activated in early diabetes (Ziyadeh et al, 1995). However, other inhibitors of inducible nitricoxide synthase (N -nitro-L-arginine methyl ester and methylguanidine) are not renoprotective in diabetes (Soulis et al, 1997a), whereas chemically unrelated inhibitors of glycation, such as pyridoxamine, confer some degree of renal protection in diabetes (Degenhardt et al, 2002).…”