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Urinary monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1) in leprosy patients: increased risk for kidney damage

BACKGROUND: We aimed to evaluate urinary MCP-1 and oxidative stress through urinary malondialdehyde (MDA) in leprosy and correlate them with traditional, but less sensitive markers of renal disease. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study of 44 patients with diagnosis of leprosy and no previous tre...

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Autores principales: Meneses, Gdayllon Cavalcante, Libório, Alexandre Braga, de Daher, Elizabeth Francesco, da Silva, Geraldo Bezerra, da Costa, Marcus Felipe Bezerra, Pontes, Maria Araci Andrade, Martins, Alice Maria Costa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25142123
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-451

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