The urinary sediment beyond light microscopical examination

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1482-1485

  Colucci, G ^a   Floege, J ^b   Schena, F P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

mRNA expression; Urinary sediment; Urine

Indexed keywords

CD103 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR3; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; GRANULYSIN; GRANZYME B; INTERLEUKIN 2; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; NEPHRIN; PERFORIN; PODOCIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; VASCULOTROPIN;

AUTOIMMUNITY; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE MODEL; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULOPATHY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY INJURY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEINURIA; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; URINE SEDIMENT;

HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; RNA, MESSENGER; URINE;

EID: 33745991117     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl223     Document Type: Review

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