Urinary Angiotensinogen as a Novel Early Biomarker of Intrarenal Renin–Angiotensin System Activation in Experimental Type 1 Diabetes

Urinary excretion of albumin (UAlb) is used clinically as a marker of diabetic nephropathy (DN). Although DN was thought to be a unidirectional process, recent studies demonstrated that a large proportion of patients diagnosed with DN reverted to normoalbuminuria. Moreover, despite the normoalbuminu...

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Main Authors: Masumi Kamiyama, Andrea Zsombok, Hiroyuki Kobori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Pharmacological Sciences
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S134786131930475X