Histological evidence of neuraminidase involvement in acute nephritis: Desialized leukocytes infiltrate the kidney in acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 217-221

  Marin C ^a   Mosquera, J ^b   Rodriguez Iturbe B ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MARACAIBO   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL ZULIA   (Venezuela)

^c NONE   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Glomerulonephritis; Leukocytes; Neuraminidase

Indexed keywords

CD11B ANTIGEN; PEANUT AGGLUTININ; SIALIDASE;

ALLERGIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; KIDNEY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; NEPHRITIS; PATHOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; NEURAMINIDASE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030898021     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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