About L-FABP as a Biomarker

L-FABP is a low molecular soluble protein (about 14kDa) expressed in the proximal convoluted tubule peculiarly in the kidney, and physiologically it is thought that L-FABP plays an important role in energy and lipid metabolism in the convoluted tubule where the function of re-absorption of the kidney is borne.
It is expected that L-FABP is useful as a prognosis marker in kidney diseases because it is induced and excreted into urine in response to stresses by the protein urea and the minute blood stream trouble, etc. that appear in the kidney disease extension.

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