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SUBMITTER: Parker KS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4909380 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Parker Kaveri S KS Crowley Jan R JR Stephens-Shields Alisa J AJ van Bokhoven Adrie A Lucia M Scott MS Lai H Henry HH Andriole Gerald L GL Hooton Thomas M TM Mullins Chris C Henderson Jeffrey P JP
EBioMedicine 20160331
Interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) is a poorly understood syndrome affecting up to 6.5% of adult women in the U.S. The lack of broadly accepted objective laboratory markers for this condition hampers efforts to diagnose and treat this condition. To identify biochemical markers for IC/BPS, we applied mass spectrometry-based global metabolite profiling to urine specimens from a cohort of female IC/BPS subjects from the Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pai ...[more]