369 results about "Kidney injury" patented technology

The present invention relates to methods of detecting renal transplant rejection and other forms of renal damage. Protein markers or renal damage are provided, along with assays for detecting said markers. Also provided are methods for identifying markers of renal damage.

Method of limiting development of acute kidney injury (AKI) and treating AKI using pyridoxamine are described, together with methods for monitoring efficacy of pyridoxamine therapy.

The present invention provides compositions and methods for the detection, treatment, and prevention of a kidney injury. The invention relates to the discovery that chitinase 3-like 1/Brp-39/YKL-40 serves as both a biomarker for the degree of kidney injury and a critical mediator of a reparative response in the kidney.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis, and determination of treatment regimens in subjects suffering from or suspected of having a renal injury. In particular, the invention relates to using a plurality of assays, one or more of which is configured to detect a kidney injury marker selected from the group consisting of Hyaluronic acid, Immunoglobulin A, Immunoglobulin G1, Immunoglobulin G2, Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 7, Alpha-1 antitrypsin, Serum amyloid P component, Metalloproteinase inhibitor 2, Hepatocyte growth factor, Intercellular adhesion molecule 1, Beta-2-glycoprotein 1, Interleukin-1 beta, Neutrophil Elastase, Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 11B, Interleukin-11, Cathepsin D, C—C motif chemokine 24, C—X—C motif chemokine 6, C—C motif chemokine 13, C—X—C motif chemokines -1, -2, and -3, Matrilysin, Interleukin-2 receptor alpha chain, Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 3, and Macrophage colony-stimulating factor 1 as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in renal injuries.

We disclose a new and useful biomarker for acute kidney injury (i.e., AKI), renal ischemia reperfusion injury (i.e., IRI), ischemic acute kidney injury, and/or ischemic acute tubular necrosis (i.e., ATN). The biomarker is GRO-alpha (i.e., CXCL1, chemokine C-X-C ligand 1, GRO1, GROa, MGSA, MGSA alpha, MGSA-a, NAP-3, SCYB1). We detected the biomarker using a QUANTIKINE® human GRO-alpha immunoassay (Cat. No. DGR00, R & D Systems, Minneapolis, Minn.). In addition, we disclose a method of treating lung damage.

A method for the early identification and prediction of elevated blood creatinine levels resulting from a reduction in kidney function in a subject, comprises contacting a urine sample from the subject with a capture molecule for a biomarker specific for the distal region of the renal tubule and which biomarker is released from said region when there is damage to said region indicative and predictive of elevated blood creatinine levels resulting from a reduction in kidney function. The method can be used to detect Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) caused by many conditions or diseases or through the administration of drugs. The method can indicate and/or predict a reduction in kidney function significantly earlier than the current standard creatinine test. Methods for predicting a need for renal replacement therapy (RRT) are also disclosed.

Disclosed are a human antibody comprising a human complementarity-determining region (CDR), which binds specifically to c-Met, and a framework region (FR), a polynucleotide encoding the human antibody, an expression vector comprising the polynucleotide, a transformant transformed with the expression vector, a method of producing the human antibody B7 by culturing the transformant, a wound healing composition comprising the human antibody as an active ingredient, a cell regeneration composition comprising the antibody as an active ingredient, and a drug conjugate comprising a drug linked to the human antibody. The c-Met-specific human antibody can function as an HGF mimic that can be used as a wound healing composition. The antibody can be widely used to determine the treatment and prognosis of various diseases, including neuronal infarction, progressive nephropathy, liver cirrhosis, lung fibrosis, kidney injury, liver injury, lung injury, and ulcerative wounds, which are treated by activation of HGF or c-Met.

Systems and methods for the clinical treatment of individuals susceptible to or suffering from acute kidney injury are provided. Drugs, biologics, or other therapies or treatments are administered by fluid agent delivery directly to the kidneys via their arterial blood supply. Bifurcated renal artery infusion catheter devices and methods can treat kidney injury in patients with locally-delivered drugs, biologics, and other agents, so as to increase the ability of the kidneys to excrete nitrogenous waste products from the blood, and prevent or ameliorate azotemia.

The present invention is directed to acute kidney injury biomarkers, and methods and kits comprising the use of agents directed against acute kidney injury biomarkers for facilitating and enhancing the diagnosis of AKI. The present invention is based on the discovery that specific biomarkers are present in urine at higher concentrations in subjects with acute kidney injury (AKI) as compared with subjects that have no symptoms of AKI. The invention is directed to methods for diagnosis of AKI by determining and monitoring the levels of at least one biomarker protein in a biological sample, such as urine. Further, the invention is directed to methods for facilitating the distinction of kidney infection from bladder infection in a subject.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis, and determination of treatment regimens in sepsis patients. In particular, the invention relates to using assays that detect one or more biomarkers selected from the group consisting of Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 7, Beta-2-glycoprotein 1, Metalloproteinase inhibitor 2, Alpha-1 Antitrypsin, Leukocyte elastase, Serum Amyloid P Component, C-X-C motif chemokine 6, Immunoglobulin A, Immunoglobulin G subclass I, C-C motif chemokine 24, Neutrophil collagenase, Cathepsin D, C-X-C motif chemokine 13, Involucrin, Interleukin-6 receptor subunit beta, Hepatocyte Growth Factor, CXCL-1, -2, -3, Immunoglobulin G subclass II, Metalloproteinase inhibitor 4, C-C motif chemokine 18, Matrilysin, C-X-C motif chemokine 11, and Antileukoproteinase as diagnostic and prognostic biomarker assays of renal injury in the sepsis patient.

The invention relates to the treatment or prevention of renal impairment and/or complications using a SGLT-2 inhibitor, for example in patients diagnosed with metabolic disorders and related conditions.

Methods to treat or prevent acute kidney injury and chronic kidney injury in subjects using CXCR4 antagonists are disclosed.

The invention relates to a method for determining the temporal phase of acute kidney injury, comprising obtaining a test sample from a subject and measuring the expression level of at least one biomarker selected from the group comprising Chac1, Birc5 and Angpt17. The invention also relates to a method for determining the early early phase, the late early phase, the severity and/or timing of acute kidney injury via analysis of the biomarkers Chac1, Birc5 and/or Angptl7, in addition to a test kit for carrying out said methods and antibodies directed against Chac1, Birc5 or Angptl7.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis, and determination of treatment regimens in subjects suffering from or suspected of having a renal injury. In particular, the invention relates to using a one or more assays configured to detect a kidney injury marker selected from the group consisting of Coagulation factor VII, CA19-9, Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 7, C—X—C motif chemokine 6, and C—C motif chemokine 13 as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in renal injuries.

This invention relates to the use of beta-3-adrenoceptor agonists for the prevention and treatment of kidney damage and/or functional bladder complaints, particularly bladder complaints of neurogenic origin as the result of spinal cord injury.

The invention provides an MG53 (mitsugumin53) mutant and a preparation method thereof. The mutant is a serine-site mutant of MG53 protein in a Coiled-coil structural domain, and the mutant results in inactivation of MG53 phosphorylation. Meanwhile, the MG53 protein mutant can be used for preventing or treating diseases related to cellular membrane damage, such as diseases related to myocardial cell injury, diseases related to ulcer, trauma with a wound, particularly a difficult-to-heal wound, intestinal leakage, kidney injury and the like. The diseases related to myocardial cell injury can include one or more diseases related to following symptoms: myocardial ischemia, heart ischemia, heart ischemia/reperfusion injury, myocardial infarction, cardiac failure, arrhythmia and cardiac rupture. The diseases related to ulcer include one or more of following diseases: chronic ulcer, peptic ulcer, diabetic foot ulcer, diabetic foot gangrene and chronic gastric ulcer. Besides, the invention further provides a dry powder preparation, a spray preparation, a gel preparation and an emulsion containing MG53 or MG53 mutant as well as preparation methods of the preparations.

The invention relates to an application of Sargassum polysaccharide in medicine preparation used for treating kidney injury, the Sargassum polysaccharide is an active extract total polysaccharide in Sargassum graminifolium, the invention specifically relates to an application of Sargassum polysaccharide in kidney protection, and an application of Sargassum polysaccharide which can be mixed or individually used as antidotes in the pharmacy fields. The results show that the Sargassum graminifolium polysaccharide has certain protection effect on rat kidney, and can resist the kidney injury caused by medicines and chemicals such as gentamycin, cisplatin and high oxalic acid and the like.

The invention discloses a polypeptide hydrogel. The polypeptide hydrogel is prepared by mixing a self-assembled peptide (SAP) aqueous solution with exosomes (Exos). The present invention also discloses a preparation method and application of the polypeptide hydrogel. The polypeptide hydrogel provided by the invention can effectively slow down the release of the Exos and prolong the half-life of the Exos; and the released Exos have the activity similar to that of newly-separated Exos, and can effectively reduce HK2 cell injury caused by hypoxia and promote the recovery of vascular endothelial damage. The polypeptide hydrogel disclosed by the invention is capable of effectively reducing acute kidney injury and slowing down renal fibrosis by reducing kidney cell apoptosis and inflammatory factors, the expression amount of kidney injury marker protein-neutrophil gelatinase-related apolipoprotein (NGAL), and the synthesis and secretion of renal extracellular matrix (ECM), and has a good clinical application prospect.

The invention relates to the technical field of animal models and concretely, relates to a method for building an animal model with PHF 14 gene knockout-based acute kidney injury and renal fibrosis after injury. The invention builds a model of renal fibrosis after kidney injury under the genetic background of PHF 14 gene knockout under adult conditions and provides essential conditions for researching a use of a PHF 14 gene in fibrotic diseases. Compared with the existing PHF 14 knockout model, the PHF 14 gene knockout provided by the invention does not cause embryonic lethal. A test on adult-stage tamoxifen induced knockout of PHF 14 proves that the PHF 14 gene knockout does not cause embryonic lethal. Compared with a group without knockout, the group subjected to knockout has no substantial pathology of lung, liver and kidney. The method prevents systemic disease state-caused interference on following-up acute kidney injury model making and realizes individual research on use of the gene defect in renal fibrosis pathogenesis.