Publications by authors named "Viorica Khalili"
Background: Normal urine contains low-molecular-weight peptides or protein fragments that have been poorly studied, primarily because of the technical difficulty of measuring peptides in the presence of proteins. We studied these substances in healthy subjects and patients with renal disease and varying degrees of proteinuria to understand the factors that determine their excretion.
Methods: We estimated these substances as the difference between results using the Lowry method (which detects both proteins and peptides) and those obtained using the dye-binding Bradford (Biorad) method (Biorad Laboratories Inc, Hercules, CA; which detects only proteins).