Human Urotensin II in the plasma of anephric subjects [6]

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1269-1270

  Mosenkis, Ari ^a   Danoff, Theodore M ^b   Aiyar, Nambi ^b   Bazeley, Jonathan ^a   Townsend, Raymond R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; UROTENSIN II;

BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; STUDENT T TEST; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

HUMANS; KIDNEY; NEPHRECTOMY; RENAL DIALYSIS; UROTENSINS;

EID: 34047102445     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl697     Document Type: Letter

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