IgA nephropathy

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Lai, Kar Neng ^a,b   Tang, Sydney C W ^b   Schena, Francesco Paolo ^c   Novak, Jan ^d   Tomino, Yasuhiko ^e   Fogo, Agnes B ^f   Glassock, Richard J ^g  

^a HONG KONG SANATORIUM AND HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^e Showakai Hospital   (Japan)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BUDESONIDE; CHEMOKINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FISH OIL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR;

AGE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GLYCOSYLATION; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; KIDNEY FAILURE; MESANGIUM CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PODOCYTE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEINURIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL STATUS; TONSILLECTOMY; URINALYSIS; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOLOGY; KIDNEY;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, IGA; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; KIDNEY; PROTEINURIA; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 85019471249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2056676X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrdp.2016.1     Document Type: Review

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