Permeability plasma factors in nephrotic syndrome: More than one factor, more than one inhibitor

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 882-885

  Ghiggeri, Gian Marco ^a   Artero, Mary ^b   Carraro, Michele ^b   Perfumo, Francesco ^a  

^a G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA ACTININ; CYCLOSPORIN; HUMORAL ANTIBODY; PODOCIN; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYBRIDOMA; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMA FACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0035023913     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/16.5.882     Document Type: Editorial

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