The Role of Sarcosine, Uracil, and Kynurenic Acid Metabolism in Urine for Diagnosis and Progression Monitoring of Prostate Cancer.

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Published in Metabolites on February 23, 2017

Authors

Georgios Gkotsos1, Christina Virgiliou2, Ioanna Lagoudaki3, Chrysanthi Sardeli4, Nikolaos Raikos5, Georgios Theodoridis6, Georgios Dimitriadis7

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece. ggkotsos@gmail.com.
2: Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece. cr_virgi@hotmail.com.
3: Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece. joanna_lagou@yahoo.gr.
4: Department of Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece. sardeli@auth.gr.
5: Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece. raikos@auth.gr.
6: Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece. gtheodor@chem.auth.gr.
7: Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece. gdimit@auth.gr.

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