Evidence of tubular damage in the very early stage of chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka: A cross-sectional study

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 109-117

  Nanayakkara, Shanika ^a   Senevirathna, S T M L D ^a   Karunaratne, Upul ^b   Chandrajith, Rohana ^c   Harada, Kouji H ^a   Hitomi, Toshiaki ^a   Watanabe, Takao ^d   Abeysekera, Tilak ^b   Aturaliya, T N C ^e   Koizumi, Akio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Teaching Hospital Kandy   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^d Tohoku Bunkyo University   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

1 Microglobulin; Chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology; N acetyl Dglucosaminidase; Sri Lanka; Urine

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 MICROGLOBULIN; CADMIUM; N ACETYL BETA GLUCOSAMINIDASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADMIUM POISONING; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE OF UNCERTAIN ETIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TUBULE DAMAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; SRI LANKA; URINARY EXCRETION;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; ADULT; ALPHA-GLOBULINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CADMIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TUBULES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; SRI LANKA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862841094     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-011-0224-z     Document Type: Article

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