NEAT1 and renal fibrosis: Recent evidence demonstrates that lncRNAs also mediate renal fibrosis in DN, such as the lncRNA NEAT1 and lncRNA ASncmtRNA-2 which induce kidney fibrosis in DN, and 1700020I14Rik and lncRNAGm4419 which attenuate kidney fibrosis in DN (Gao et al., 2017; Yi et al., 2017; Huang et al., 2019).