Plasma pteridine concentrations in patients with chronic renal failure

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1032-1036

  Yokoyama, Keitaro ^a   Tajima, Masamich ^b   Yoshida, Hiraku ^a   Nakayama, Masaaki ^a   Tokutome, Goro ^a   Sakagami, Hiroshi ^b   Hosoya, Tatsuo ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MEIKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic renal failure; Dihydrobiopterin; NADH; Nitric oxide; Superoxide; Tetrabiopterin

Indexed keywords

BIOPTERIN; CREATININE; DIHYDROBIOPTERIN; NEOPTERIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHENYLALANINE 4 MONOOXYGENASE; PTERIDINE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PTERIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CREATININE CLEARANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; METABOLIC DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UREMIA; BLOOD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPTERIN; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; NEOPTERIN; PTERIDINES; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 0035991961     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/17.6.1032     Document Type: Article

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