TGFB1 and diabetic kidney disease: Zhao et al. (2017) found that miR-30c inhibited EMT through Snail1-TGF-β1 pathway, and attenuated diabetic nephropathy. In another study, researchers found that miR-152 overexpression inhibited TGF-β1-induced EMT in HK-2 cells (Ning et al., 2018).