Composition for preventing acute kidney injury

• Main Authors: CHOI HOON IN, BAE EUN HUI, MA SEONG KWON, KIM SOO WAN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 02.05.2019
• Subjects: FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing, alleviating, or treating kidney disease. More specifically, the present invention relates to the pharmaceutical composition and health functional food for preventing acute kidney disease which contains, as an active component, a peroxisome proliferator activated receptor γ coactivator 1α (PGC-1α) protein or drug inducing the overexpression of the protein. 본 발명은 신장질환 예방, 개선 또는 치료용 약학조성물에 대한 것으로, 보다 구체적으로는 PGC-1α(Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor γ coactivator 1α) 단백질 또는 상기 단백질의 과발현을 유도하는 약물을 유효성분으로 포함하는 급성신장질환 예방용 약학조성물 및 건강기능식품에 관한 것이다.