TY - BOOK AU - Reham Abdelghany Ahmed AU - Dawlat Mohamed Abdelhamid Belal , AU - Hussien Saeed Elfishawy , AU - Mervat Mamdooh Khorshied , TI - Relation of serum copeptin to both proteinuria and glomerular filteration rate in diabetics / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Reham Abdelghany Ahmed , KW - Albuminuria KW - copeptin KW - eGFR N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -