Urinary vitamin A excretion in very low birth weight infants

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-66

  Nagl, Britta ^a   Loui, Andrea ^b   Raila, Jens ^a   Felderhoff Mueser, Ursula ^b   Obladen, Michael ^b   Schweigert, Florian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kidney function; Urinary RBP4; Urinary retinol; Urine; Verylow birth weight infants; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; PREALBUMIN; RETINOL; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN 4;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; URINARY EXCRETION; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 59849088482     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-008-0965-0     Document Type: Article

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