Nephrotic syndrome: A new specific test for idiopathic membranous nephropathy

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 496-498

  Debiec, Hanna ^a   Ronco, Pierre ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2 RECEPTOR; RITUXIMAB;

ADULT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEROLOGY;

AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; RECEPTORS, PHOSPHOLIPASE A2;

EID: 80052259467     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2011.106     Document Type: Review

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