TGFB1 and chronic kidney disease: Although the identification of miR-193b-3p targets is beyond the scope of our work, it is worth mentioning that several key features of CKD, such as inflammatory cell infiltration, tubular cell atrophy, mesangial cell hypertrophy and podocyte apoptosis, are linked to transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) pathway activation (Trionfini et al, 2015).