Netrin-1, a urinary proximal tubular injury marker, is elevated early in the time course of human diabetes.
CONCLUSION: Netrin-1 is detectable in urine from diabetic patients and may serve as a useful early diagnostic biomarker predicting the development of CKD in diabetes.
PMID: 24510764 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)