TY - BOOK AU - Marwa Ahmed Abdo AU - Amal Rashad Elshahabe , AU - Samia Zaki Hassan , AU - Sherine Aly Elmofty , TI - Urinary tweak; a biomarker for lupus nephritis activity / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Marwa Ahmed Abdo , KW - Lupus nephritis KW - Systemic lupus erythematosus KW - Urinary TNF-like weak inducer of apoptosis N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation; Issued also as CD N2 - This work aimed to investigate the value of urinary tumor necrosis factor-like weak inducer of apoptosis (uTWEAK) as a biomarker for lupus nephritis (L.N.) activity. Sixty patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) fulfilling the 1997 revised criteria for the classification of SLE as well as 20 age/sex- matched healthy controls included in this study were subjected to full history taking, clinical examination, routine laboratory investigations, measurement of uTWEAK level as well as renal biopsy for patients with active L.N ER -