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Decreased urinary epidermal growth factor levels in diabetic patients

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Urinary human epidermal growth factor levels were assayed in diabetic patients and controls before and after surgery. The preoperative levels in the diabetic patients were decreased and postoperatively, did not show the trough and peak pattern which was seen in the controls.

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  1. The Second Department of Surgery, Ehime University School of Medicine, Shizukawa, Shigenobu, Onsen-gun, 791-02, Ehime, Japan

    Yasuhito Abe, Masazumi Miyake MD, Atsushi Horiuchi & Shigeru Kimura

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Abe, Y., Miyake, M., Horiuchi, A. et al. Decreased urinary epidermal growth factor levels in diabetic patients. The Japanese Journal of Surgery 21, 485–486 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02470982

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