BalakuntalamKasinathMD

Emeritus Professor, Medicine, University of Texas Medical School, San Antonio

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Dr. Balakuntalam Kasinath is a nephrologist in San Antonio, TX. He retired in 2018. He was affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including South Texas Veterans Health Care System and University Health / UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. He received his medical degree from Bangalore Medical College and was in practice 43 years. He is experienced in clinical: glomerulonephritis, diabetic nephropathy and research: molecular basis of kidney injury in diabetes and aging. He has more than 100 publications and over 500 citings.

University of ChicagoFellowship, Nephrology, 1980 - 1983
Advocate Health Care/Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 1977 - 1980
Bangalore Medical CollegeClass of 1974

PubMed

High glucose-induced downregulation of PTEN-Long is sufficient for proximal tubular cell injury in diabetic kidney disease.
Falguni Das, Nandini Ghosh-Choudhury, Balakuntalam S Kasinath, Kumar Sharma, Goutam Ghosh Choudhury
Experimental Cell Research. 2024-07-01
3 citations
Female Protection Against Diabetic Kidney Disease Is Regulated by Kidney-Specific AMPK Activity.
Hak Joo Lee, Liang Min, Jingli Gao, Shane Matta, Viktor Drel
Diabetes. 2024-07-01
TGFβ instructs mTORC2 to activate PKCβII for increased TWIST1 expression in proximal tubular epithelial cell injury.
Falguni Das, Nandini Ghosh-Choudhury, Soumya Maity, Balakuntalam S Kasinath, Goutam Ghosh Choudhury
FEBS Letters. 2023-05-01

Journal Articles

Marmoset as a Model to Study Kidney Changes Associated with Aging
Andrew Donati, Balakuntalam S Kasinath, The Journals of Gerontology
Hydrogen Sulfide Ameliorates Aging-Associated Changes in the Kidney
Balakuntalam Kasinath, MD, Geroscience