Caspase-cleaved cytokeratin 18 and 20 S
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Hubert Hetz; Konrad Hoetzenecker; Stefan Hacker; Peter Faybik; Andreas Pollreisz
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Apoptosis of epithelial hepatocytes plays a pivotal role in acute as well as in chronic liver diseases. The cleavage of cytokeratin-18 (CK-18) by caspases is an early event in the apoptotic process. We therefore sought to investigate serum levels of CK-18 and 20S proteasome in patients with liver ci