The current diagnosis of acute kidney injury involves the measurement of renal biomarkers, such as serum creatinine, which provide a crude means of detecting cellular stress and injury. To determine whether Ngal expression provides an alternate renal biomarker capable of detecting the initial phases of renal injury, Paragas et al. have developed an Ngal reporter mouse that offers a noninvasive and real-time method for the continuous and quantitative reporting of cell stress and injury at the injury site.
- Neal Paragas
- Andong Qiu
- Jonathan Barasch
