The pathogenic mechanisms of accelerated graft fibrosis in hepatitis C recurrence after liver transplantation (LT) are not well established. The aim of the study was to assess whether a greater activation of hepatic stellate cells (HSC), the major collagen-producing cells in the liver, can occur in
B7/BB-1 expression and hepatitis activity in liver tissues of patients with chronic hepatitis C
β Scribed by K Mochizuki; N Hayashi; K Katayama; N Hiramatsu; T Kanto; E Mita; T Tatsumi; N Kuzushita; A Kasahara; H Fusamoto; T Yokochi; T Kamada
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 800 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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minimal, 25 had mild, 26 had moderate, and 4 had severe chronic Osaka, Japan; and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Aichi Medical Univerhepatitis. 25 Three moderate and two severe chronic hepatitis cases sity School, Aichi, Japan.
were observed in the five patients with chronic hepatitis B. The
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