NGAL in Medical News

Novel Diagnostic Marker for Acute Kidney Injury Previewed at Abbott-Sponsored Scientific Workshop

...or Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Meeting Show Urine ngal Can Potentially Save Lives by Enabling Faster ...w diagnostic biomarker for acute AKI, called urine ngal (neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin). The ... detected by current testing methods. "The urine ngal marker has the potential to represent a major adva...

New Test Predicts Risk of Post-Surgery Kidney Injury

...se-associated lipocalin (NGAL) in urine. "Urine ngal represents a powerful early predictive marker of A...repared statement. "An early elevation in urine ngal would trigger an immediate shift in clinical manag...ys after surgery. The researchers found that urine ngal levels began to increase within a few hours after ...

JCI online early table of contents: March 3, 2008

...d that the gene responsible for making the protein ngal was highly upregulated in human sebaceous glands by 13-cis RA. As ngal was found to mediate apoptosis of human sebaceous ...hors suggested that agents that selectively induce ngal expression in human sebaceous glands might provide...

$4 million award to improve detection of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery

...agnosiswithin 24 to 48 hours. They will also test whether serum cystatin C could better predict pre-operative risk of AKI, and whether urine IL-18 and ngal levels will be better post-operative markers of AKI occurrence and severity. ...

Early test to detect kidney failure

...lmonary bypass, 20 children had developed acute renal injury. The amount of ngal in the urine at 2 hours after the bypass surgery was the earliest predictor..., but it was only possible 1 to 3 days after the surgery. Concentrations of ngal in urine and serum taken after two hours of the surgery represent early bio...