Immune and inflammatory role in renal disease

Comprehensive Physiology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 957-976

  Imig, John D ^a   Ryan, Michael J ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; KIDNEY DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY DISEASES;

EID: 84879313137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20404603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c120028     Document Type: Article

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