Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-4 as a Marker of Chronic Lupus Nephritis

Tianfu Wu; Chun Xie; Jie Han; Yujin Ye; Sandeep Singh; Jinchun Zhou; Yajuan Li; Huihua Ding; Quan-zhen Li; Xin Zhou; Chaim Putterman; Ramesh Saxena; Chandra Mohan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0151491

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Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-4 as a Marker of Chronic Lupus Nephritis

Tianfu Wu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tianfu Wu, Chun Xie

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Chun Xie ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tianfu Wu, Chun Xie

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Division of Nephrology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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Jie Han,

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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Yujin Ye,

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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Sandeep Singh,

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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Jinchun Zhou,

Affiliation Department of Immunology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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Yajuan Li,

Affiliation Department of Immunology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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Huihua Ding,

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Quan-zhen Li,

Affiliation Department of Immunology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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Xin Zhou,

Affiliation Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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Chaim Putterman,

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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Ramesh Saxena,

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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Chandra Mohan

* E-mail: cmohan@central.uh.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-4 as a Marker of Chronic Lupus Nephritis

Tianfu Wu,
Chun Xie,
Jie Han,
Yujin Ye,
Sandeep Singh,
Jinchun Zhou,
Yajuan Li,
Huihua Ding,
Quan-zhen Li,
Xin Zhou

Published: March 28, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151491

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