SIRT1 and renal fibrosis: He et al. [87] demonstrated that salvianolic acid B mitigates EMT in renal fibrosis by inducing SIRT1-dependent autophagy studies analogous to ours, which have demonstrated the efficacy of targeting the SIRT1-NF-κB pathway and autophagy activation in modulating EMT in podocytes, thereby ameliorating renal fibrosis.