Increased serum levels of vascular endothelial growth factor in human crescentic glomerulonephritis

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 76-82

  Nitta, K ^a   Uchida, K ^a   Kimata, N ^a   Honda, K ^a   Horita, S ^a   Hayashi, T ^a   Ishizuka, T ^a   Kobayashi, H ^a   Kawashima, A ^a   Yumura, W ^a   Nihei, H ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crescent; Crescentic glomerulonephritis; Macrophage; Tubulointerstitial change; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; TIME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CREATININE; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, IGA; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; LYMPHOKINES; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRITIS; NEPHROSIS, LIPOID; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0032810693     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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