Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research

Alessandro Cataliotti

John C Burnett, Jr

Stephen James Russell

Yasuhiro Ikeda

Jason M Tonne

Sasantha J Sangaralingham

Denise M Heublein

This document provides methods and materials for treating cardiovascular and/or renal diseases. For example, AAV9 vectors designed to express natriuretic polypeptides, nucleic acid molecules encoding natriuretic polypeptides, methods for making AAV9 vectors, and methods for using such vectors or molecules to treat cardiovascular and/or renal diseases are provided.

Treating cardiovascular or renal diseases

This document provides methods and materials involved in assessing renal structural alterations (e.g., renal fibrosis, glomerular basement thickening, mesangial matrix expansion, swollen podocytes, and foot processes effacement) as well as methods and materials involved in assessing outcomes. For example, methods and materials for using the level of urinary CNP (e.g., a urinary to plasma CNP ratio) to determine whether or not a mammal is developing renal structural alterations (e.g., renal fibrosis, glomerular basement thickening, mesangial matrix expansion, swollen podocytes, and foot processes effacement) as well as methods and materials for using the level of urinary CNP levels to identify patients having an increased likelihood of experiencing a poor outcome are provided.

Assessing renal structural alterations and outcomes

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