The quest for a better understanding of chronic kidney disease complications: an update on uremic toxins

Chronic kidney disease is characterized by a progressive reduction of glomerular filtration rate and/or the appearance of proteinuria, and subsequently the progressive retention of organic waste compounds called uremic toxins (UT). Over the last decades, a large number of such compounds have been id...

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Main Authors: Fellype Carvalho Barreto, Andréa Emilia Marques Stinghen, Rodrigo Bueno de Oliveira, Ana Tereza Barufi Franco, Andréa Novais Moreno, Daniela Veit Barreto, Roberto Pecoits-Filho, Tilman B. Drüeke, Ziad A. Massy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Nefrologia 2014-04-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Nephrology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-28002014000200221&lng=en&tlng=en