MALAT1 and diabetic kidney disease: Recent studies in DKD revealed interactions of podocytes and PTs with lncRNAs posesing deleterious roles, among which metastasis - associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1) and nuclear enriched abundant transcript 1 (NEAT1), and with renal protective lncRNAs, such as taurine - upregulated gene 1 (TUG1) and myocardial infarction - associated transcript (MIAT) 14.