Cystatin C

Understanding Cystatin CCystatin C (Cys-C) is a cysteine protease inhibitor with a molecular weight of 13 kDa, composed of 120 amino acid residues. It is a secretory protein whose excretion is solely influenced by glomerular filtration rate, unaffected by other factors such as gender, age, diet, inflammation, infection, blood lipids, or liver disease. In recent … Read more