Urinary NGAL measurement: Biological variation and ratio to creatinine

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 412, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 390-

  Delanaye, Pierre ^a   Rozet, Eric ^a   Krzesinski, Jean Marie ^a   Cavalier, Etienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; NEUTROPHIL GELATINASE ASSOCIATED LIPOCALIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANALYTIC METHOD; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LETTER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; RANDOM SAMPLE; URINALYSIS;

EID: 78650242430     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2010.10.011     Document Type: Letter

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