APOPTOSIS INHIBITOR OF MACROPHAGE (AIM) AS PREVENTIVE OR THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR KIDNEY DISEASE

摘要

The present invention provides: a preventive or therapeutic agent for kidney disease, which contains AIM, or a partial peptide thereof, or a nucleic acid having the base sequence encoding the same; or a method for screening a preventive or therapeutic agent for kidney disease using an animal obtained by unilateral ureter ligation or temporary renal ischemia-reperfusion in an AIM expression-deficient non-human mammal.