Chronic hepatitis C: Beware the older drinking male: Fibrosis progression beckons!

✍ Scribed by L B Seeff

• Book ID: 102244947
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 134 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0270-9139
• DOI: 10.1002/hep.510260442

✦ Synopsis

of scavenger receptor, class B, type I, a high density lipoprotein receptor, operative within the hepatocyte interior (such as regulators in liver and steroidogenic tissues of the rat. J Clin Invest 1996;98:984of cholesterol biosynthetic pathways), at the basolateral 995.

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