Urinary neopterin concentrations in patients with Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN)

Kidney International

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1817-1821

  Toncheva, Draga ^b   Galabov, Angel S ^b   Laich, Andreas ^b   Atanassova, Srebrena ^b   Kamarinchev, Bojin ^b   Dimitrov, Tzvetan ^b   Fuchs, Dietmar ^a  

^a Institute for Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Balkan endemic nephropathy; Neopterin; Urinary

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; NEOPTERIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BULGARIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 0142156119     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2003.00280.x     Document Type: Article

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