Reham Abdelghany Ahmed <br/><br/>
Relation of serum copeptin to both proteinuria and glomerular filteration rate in diabetics /  
 العلاقة بين مادة الكوبيبتين فى الدم وكلا من البروتينات فى البول ومعدل الارتشاح الكوبيبى فى مرضى السكر 
Reham Abdelghany Ahmed ; Supervised Dawlat Mohamed Abdelhamid Belal , Hussien Saeed Elfishawy , Mervat Mamdooh Khorshied 
 - Cairo :   Reham Abdelghany Ahmed ,   2012 
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<br/><br/>Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine 
<br/><br/> Diabetic Nephropathy (DN) remains the leading cause of end stage renal sisease (ESRD) in the Western world . Vasopressin has been reported to exert deleterious effects on the kidney . Copeptin , the C - terminal portion of the precursor of AVP (arginine vasopressin) is secreted with it , and can be used as a surrogate marker of the AVP system 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Albuminuria copeptin  eGFR