Dysfunction of the complement system plays an important role in the pathogenesis of renal diseases. Complement inhibitors, such as C5 inhibitors, have shown efficacy in clinical trials, but may not be sufficient to block disease progression as monotherapy.
Unknown etiology is commonly encountered in the kidney pre-transplant routine program. A screening program was performed to detect patients and study recipients that meet the following features: hypertension with no clear etiology and biopsies that do not match with clinical features of classical glomerulopathies.
Nephrotic syndrome is a kidney disorder characterized by abnormal functioning of the glomerular filtration barrier, and is frequently caused by focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). At the World Congress of Nephrology meeting this week, researchers presented a case report of a 32-year-old female patient with nephrotic syndrome caused by FSGS diagnosed when she was 27.
University of Antwerp has identified substituted phenothiazines acting as ferroptosis inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of acute renal failure, sepsis, ischemia-reperfusion injury, neurological and iron metabolism disorders, transplant rejection and chronic kidney disease, among others.
Researchers at Jinan Chengcheng Biotechnology Co. Ltd. and Shandong University have disclosed compounds acting as hypoxia-inducible factor 2-α (HIF-2α; EPAS1) activators and vaccine adjuvant reported to be useful for the treatment of stroke, hypertension, chronic kidney disease and more.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. has obtained IND clearance from the FDA for VX-407, an investigational first-in-class small-molecule corrector that targets the underlying cause of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) in patients with a subset of PKD1 genetic variants.
Maze Therapeutics Inc. has divulged apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of chronic kidney disease, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, diabetic, hypertensive, HIV-associated nephropathy, lupus nephritis, pre-eclampsia and sepsis.
Mironid Ltd. has synthesized phosphodiesterase PDE4 activators reported to be useful for the treatment cancer, hyperparathyroidism, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease and autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease.
Paraneoplastic syndromes are a group of disorders associated with tumors that are prevalent in patients with lymphatic, lung, ovarian or breast cancers.
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