Microalbuminuria as Predictor of Early Glomerular Injury in Children and Adolescents with Sickle Cell Anaemia at Muhimbili National Hospital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2012 [PDF]
, 2012 Microalbuminuria (MA) is the earliest marker of various diseases affecting the renal system. Its relevance in children and adolescents with sickle cell anaemia (SCA), who are known to be prone to renal complications, has not been fully explored in our ...
Christopher, Richard
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TGF-beta 1-induced epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and therapeutic intervention in diabetic nephropathy [PDF]
, 2010 Background/Aims: Epithelial-to-mesenchymal cell transformation (EMT) is the trans-differentiation of tubular epithelial cells into myofibroblasts, an event underlying progressive chronic kidney disease in diabetes, resulting in fibrosis.
Hills, Claire E., Squires, Paul E.
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Proteomic prediction and Renin angiotensin aldosterone system Inhibition prevention Of early diabetic nephRopathy in TYpe 2 diabetic patients with normoalbuminuria (PRIORITY): essential study design and rationale of a randomised clinical multicentre trial [PDF]
, 2016 Introduction: Diabetes mellitus affects 9% of the European population and accounts for 15% of healthcare expenditure, in particular, due to excess costs related to complications.
Beige, Joachim +14 more
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Different behaviour of BK-virus infection in liver transplant recipients [PDF]
, 2016 Polyomavirus BK (BKV) infects up to 90% of the general population. After primary infection, occurring early during childhood, a state of non-replicative infection is established in the reno-urinary tract, without complications for immunocompetent hosts ...
MITTERHOFER, Anna Paola +3 more
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Drug Design, Development and TherapyYijing Zhou,* Chengli Lou,* Xiuqin Xu, Bo Feng, Xiaoping Fan, Xiangjing Wang Department of Nephropathy, Jiaxing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Jiaxing, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this ...
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Urinary excretion of RAS, BMP, and WNT pathway components in diabetic kidney disease. [PDF]
, 2014 The renin-angiotensin system (RAS), bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), and WNT pathways are involved in pathogenesis of diabetic kidney disease (DKD).
Afkarian, Maryam +5 more
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Scientific ReportsRituximab occasionally induces reactivation of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in patients with resolved HCV infection, sometimes with fatal consequences. As rituximab has become one of the first-line therapies for the treatment of phospholipase A2 receptor ...
Xiaodan Li +7 more
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Elevated hemoglobin glycation index identify non-diabetic individuals at increased risk of kidney dysfunction [PDF]
, 2017 Hemoglobin glycation index (HGI), calculated as the difference between the observed value of HbA1 and the predicted HbA1c based on plasma glucose concentration, is a measure of the individual tendency toward non-enzymatic hemoglobin glycation which has ...
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