Urinary type IV collagen excretion reflects renal morphological alterations and type IV collagen expression in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. - Concepedia

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Urinary type IV collagen excretion reflects renal morphological alterations and type IV collagen expression in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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2001

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Hideo Okonogi, Masataka Nishimura, Yasushi Utsunomiya, K Hamaguchi, Hiroki Tsuchida, Yuri Miura, Shigeru Suzuki, Takaguki Kawamura, Takuji Hosoya, Kenneth M. Yamada

Abstract

These results suggest that urinary IV-C excretion reflects the pathogenetic process of diabetic nephropathy, which urinary protein excretion alone cannot do sufficiently. It can be concluded that urinary IV-C excretion could be a more useful marker for the evaluation of renal involvement of type 2-diabetic patients.