Assessment of salivary urea as a less invasive alternative to serum determinations

Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 330-334

  Cardoso, Estela M L ^a,b,d   Arregger, Alejandro L ^a   Tumilasci, Omar R ^a,b   Elbert, Alicia ^c   Contreras, Liliana N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c CEREHA Dialysis Unit   (Argentina)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS ALFREDO LANARI   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Chronic renal failure; Routine laboratory; Salivary flow rate; Salivary urea; Serum urea

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; UREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYMATIC ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SALIVARY GLAND; SALIVATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; UREMIA; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; SALIVA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SALIVA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UREA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649781705     PISSN: 00365513     EISSN: 15027686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365510802588076     Document Type: Article

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