Urinary biomarkers of kidney injury

Kidney is the most important emunctory of human body,to which many factors can induce damage such as medicine.Although different biomarkers can be used for detecting renal injury,the standard metrics used to define the renal injury are insensitive and nonspecific,so we need more sensitive and specific markers to detect the character and degree of its injury.This article reviews different urinary methods for detecting renal injury,in order to provide a reference for new diagnostic and prognostic paradigms of kidney injury.