Publications by authors named "Luiz Vinicius Alcantara"

Introduction: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a disease that progresses with the slow and progressive decline of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR); the installation of this pathology is silent and one of the major causes of death in patients with diabetes.

Aims: To identify new molecular biomarkers for early identification of the onset of DN in patients with type II diabetes (DM2). We studied the expression profile of the genes; (), () and () in peripheral blood and urine sediment samples.

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