Fetuin-mineral complex: A new potential biomarker for vascular calcification

Kidney International

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 874-876

  Komaba, Hirotaka ^a   Fukagawa, Masafumi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; ETIDRONIC ACID; FETUIN A;

BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; BONE MINERALIZATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OSTEOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UREMIA;

EID: 64949095562     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2009.52     Document Type: Note

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