ZEB1 and diabetic kidney disease: Notably, miR-30c, miR-98-5p and miR-302a-3p target the fibrosis-related JAK1, Snail1, HMGA2, and ZEB1, respectively, thus blocking the fibrotic process in DKD by inhibiting EMT (Zhao et al., 2017; Tang et al., 2018b; Zhu et al., 2019c; Gao et al., 2020).