Cleaved Form of Osteopontin in Urine as a Clinical Marker of Lupus Nephritis.

Cleaved Form of Osteopontin in Urine as a Clinical Marker of Lupus Nephritis.

We assessed the utility of two forms of osteopontin (OPN), OPN full and its cleaved form (OPN N-half), in plasma and urine as markers of disease activity in lupus nephritis (LN). Samples were collected from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (LN: N = 29, non-LN: N = 27), IgA nephropath...

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Main Authors: Koji Kitagori, Hajime Yoshifuji, Takuma Oku, Chiyomi Sasaki, Hitomi Miyata, Keita P Mori, Toshiki Nakajima, Koichiro Ohmura, Daisuke Kawabata, Naoichiro Yukawa, Yoshitaka Imura, Kosaku Murakami, Ran Nakashima, Takashi Usui, Takao Fujii, Kaoru Sakai, Motoko Yanagita, Yoshitaka Hirayama, Tsuneyo Mimori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5167225?pdf=render

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