Acacia gum in chronic renal failure

Therapy

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 183-185

  Chesney, Russell W ^a   Patters, Andrea B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; GENTAMICIN; GUM ARABIC; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; PECTIN; PLACEBO; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UREA; URIC ACID; XANTHAN;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIET THERAPY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; EDITORIAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; LONG TERM CARE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RENAL PROTECTION; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 33646205028     PISSN: 14750708     EISSN: 1744831X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14750708.3.2.183     Document Type: Editorial

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