Serum hepatocyte growth factor concentration in patients with various degrees of chronic renal failure

Nephrology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 175-179

  Chang, Hangil ^a,e   Okuda, Toshihiro ^b   Nomura, Yuji ^c   Nagao, Tsuyoshi ^c   Nakamura, Toshikazu ^d   Kurokawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Katoh, Tetsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO TEISHIN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic renal failure; Haemodialysis; Hepatocyte growth factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842485113     PISSN: 13205358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.1996.tb00084.x     Document Type: Article

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