{"id":122278,"date":"2021-05-05T08:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T15:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/the-enzyme-that-could-help-700-million-people-worldwide"},"modified":"2021-05-05T08:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T15:22:20","slug":"the-enzyme-that-could-help-700-million-people-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/the-enzyme-that-could-help-700-million-people-worldwide","title":{"rendered":"The enzyme that could help 700 million people worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Szi0YW0-ZdU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In diabetic nephropathy\u2014a common cause of kidney disease\u2014levels of NEDD4-2 are severely reduced. This is the case even when salt is not a factor.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>University of South Australia researchers have identified an enzyme that may help to curb chronic kidney disease, which affects approximately 700 million people worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>This enzyme, NEDD4-2, is critical for kidney health, says UniSA Centre for Cancer Biology scientist Dr. Jantina Manning in a new paper published this month in Cell Death &amp; Disease.<\/p>\n<p>The early career researcher and her colleagues, including 2020 SA Scientist of the Year Professor Sharad Kumar, have shown in an animal study the correlation between a high salt <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/diet\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">diet<\/a>, low levels of NEDD4-2 and advanced kidney <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/disease\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">disease<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In diabetic nephropathy\u2014a common cause of kidney disease\u2014levels of NEDD4-2 are severely reduced. This is the case even when salt is not a factor. University of South Australia researchers have identified an enzyme that may help to curb chronic kidney disease, which affects approximately 700 million people worldwide. This enzyme, NEDD4-2, is critical for kidney [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}