Fifty years of research in balkan endemic nephropathy: Where are we now?

Nephron - Clinical Practice

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Stefanović, Vladisav ^a   Polenaković, Momir ^b  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Serbia)

^b MACEDONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Macedonia)

Author keywords

Aristolochic acid; Balkan endemic nephropathy, etiology; Ochratoxin A; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Urothelial cancer

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 MICROGLOBULIN; ANILINE; ANTHRACENE; ARISTOLOCHIC ACID; AROMATIC AMINE; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; COAL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; OCHRATOXIN; PARACETAMOL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRENE; TRYPAN BLUE;

ARISTOLOCHIA; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIET THERAPY; DNA ADDUCT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEPHROTOXICITY; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEINURIA; RENAL PROTECTION; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SHORT SURVEY; STEPHANIA TETRANDRA; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT CANCER; WEATHERING;

BALKAN NEPHROPATHY; COAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POLYCYCLIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 65449118063     PISSN: 16602110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000213081     Document Type: Short Survey

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