Plasma met-enkephalin and leu-enkephalin in chronic renal failure

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1987, Pages 219-222

  Zoccali, C ^a   Ciccarelli, M ^a   Mallamaci, F ^a   Maggiore, Q ^a   Lotti, M ^b   Zucchelli, G C ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dialysis; Endogenousopioids; Leu enkephalin; Met enkephalin; Uraemia

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE ENKEPHALIN; METENKEPHALIN;

BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMAN;

ADULT; BLOOD; ENKEPHALIN, LEUCINE; ENKEPHALIN, METHIONINE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGE; RENAL DIALYSIS; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 0023518515     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.ndt.a091480     Document Type: Article

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