Urine proteomics for the early diagnosis of acute glomerulonephritis: Has the time come?

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 705-709

  Boumpas, Dimitrios T ^a   Kuroiwa, Takashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COMPLEMENT; CREATININE; CRYOGLOBULIN; CXCL16 CHEMOKINE; DNA ANTIBODY; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE ANTIBODY; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1;

ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; ANTIBODY DETECTION; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; URINALYSIS; VASCULITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHEMOKINES; CYTOKINES; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MICE; PROTEOMICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33947123752     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.22413     Document Type: Editorial

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