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Increased serum hepcidin-25 level and increased tumor expression of hepcidin mRNA are associated with metastasis of renal cell carcinoma

BACKGROUND: Hepcidin has an important role in iron metabolism. We investigated whether hepcidin was involved in renal cell carcinoma (RCC). METHODS: We measured serum hepcidin-25 levels in 32 patients by liquid chromatograpy (LC)-mass spectrometry (MS)/MS, and assessed hepcidin mRNA expression in pa...

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Autores principales: Kamai, Takao, Tomosugi, Naohisa, Abe, Hideyuki, Arai, Kyoko, Yoshida, Ken-Ichiro
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2729778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19656379
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-9-270