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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2012-01-01
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Series: | Journal of Pharmacological Sciences |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S134786131930475X |