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Washington D.C [USA], Nov. 19 : According to a paper publishedin the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, a Children's National Health System research team has come up with a novel process by which the gene APOL1 contributes to kidney disease.

Mutated versions of the APOL1 gene render people of African descent at heightened risk of developing chronic kidney disease.

Employing powerful genetic approaches, the researchers were able to mimic APOL1 renal cell pathology in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.

This opens the door to pinpointing other proteins that interact with APOL1, a vital first step toward identifying medicines to treat renal diseases that currently have no drug therapy.

Mumbai [India], Nov. 19 : The D-Day is finally here and a day ahead of the Global Citizen Festival India, the tinsel town enjoyed their fan-moment with Coldplay's Chris Martin.

Thrissur (Kerala)[India], Nov.19 : The Reserve Bank of India has granted approval for the appointment of C.VR. Rajendran as Managing Director and CEO of the Catholic Syrian Bank Ltd. for a period of three years from the date of his taking charge.

Rajendran is currently holding the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Mutual Funds in India. Prior to this he has held other key positions like Chairman and Managing Director of Andhra Bank and Executive Director at Bank of Maharashtra.

He is a seasoned banker with rich grass root level Indian banking experience spanning more than three and a half decades.

Washington D.C [USA], Nov. 19 : A study published online in The New England Journal of Medicine has found acute kidney disease developing in children admitted to pediatric intensive care units.

One of every four children admitted to pediatric ICU's around the world develops acute kidney injury (AKI), which increases the risk of death, as well as longer and more intensive hospitalizations.

Moreover, the nearly 12 percent who develop more severe AKI have a further increased risk of death within 28 days, according to lead author Stuart L. Goldstein, MD, director of the Center for Acute Care Nephrology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Washington D.C [USA], Nov. 19 : Kidney disease can now be diagnosed with a simple saliva test which will be presented at ASN Kidney Week 2016 November 15¬-20 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL.

The test may also help in predicting patients' risk of early death.

Simple and inexpensive tools for the diagnosis of kidney disease are lacking. Viviane Calice-Silva, MD, PhD (Pro-Kidney Foundation, Brazil) and her colleagues evaluated the diagnostic performance of a salivary urea nitrogen (SUN) dipstick, in Malawi, a low resource country in Africa.

Among 742 individuals who were studied, investigators diagnosed 146 patients with kidney disease using standard tests. High SUN levels were associated not only with the standard diagnostic tests, but also with a higher risk of early death.

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