Chakraborty, Debarati
Akbari, Ayub
Knoll, Greg A.
Flemming, Jennifer A.
Lowe, Catherine
Akbari, Shareef
White, Christine A. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7546-393X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Medicine, Innovation Fund, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Article History
Received: 17 February 2016
Accepted: 21 March 2018
First Online: 13 April 2018
Author’s information
: CW has been actively involved in original research on BTP for 10 years, has investigated different aspects of BTP as a marker of GFR with several related published research articles in the field. Most recently, she published a comprehensive review of BTP (American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2015;65(1):131–46) in which she discussed the role of hepatic fucntion in BTP metabolism and its potential impact on serum concentrations.
: Ethics approval was obtained from the Queen’s University Health Sciences Research Ethics Board. Cirrhotic patients provided written consent for study participation.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests to declare.
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