NR3C1 and diabetes mellitus: Furthermore, podocyte-endothelial cell crosstalk regulated by glucocorticoid receptor (GR) plays an important role on renal homeostasis in diabetes (Srivastava et al., 2021a; Srivastava et al., 2021b), suggesting the importance of focusing not only on the podocytes themselves, but also on the interactions between podocytes and other cells in DKD development.