Aristolochic acid: the common culprit of Chinese herbs nephropathy and Balkan endemic nephropathy
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Aristolochic acid: the common culprit of Chinese herbs nephropathy and Balkan endemic nephropathy.
Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is a devastating tubulointerstitial kidney disease affecting men and women living in rural areas of Bosnia–Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Serbia [1]. The disease occurs exclusively in farming villages situated in valleys of the Danube River and its tributaries. Since its first description in 1956, the geographic distribution as well as other epidemi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm667