Increased urinary adrenomedullin excretion in children with urinary-tract infection

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1686-1689

  Dötsch, Jörg ^a   Hänze, Jörg ^a   Knüfer, Verena ^a   Steiß, Jens O ^a   Dittrich, Katalin ^a   Seidel, Anke ^a   Rascher, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Department of Pediatrics ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Adrenomedullin; Inflammation; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

ADRENOMEDULLIN; CREATININE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BLADDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY PELVIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URETER; URETHRA; URINARY EXCRETION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADRENOMEDULLIN; BASE SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CREATININE; CYSTITIS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; PEPTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYELONEPHRITIS; RNA, MESSENGER; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE;

EID: 0031779416     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/13.7.1686     Document Type: Article

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