Characterization of Immunochemically Nonreactive Urinary Albumin
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- 1 December 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Chemistry
- Vol. 50 (12) , 2286-2291
- https://doi.org/10.1373/clinchem.2004.039743
Abstract
Background: Conventional immunoassays underestimate the urinary albumin concentration because intact albumin in urine exists in two forms, immunoreactive and immunochemically nonreactive.Keywords
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