We read with great interest the article by Azzalini et al., 1 who demonstrated that cigarette smoking worsens the severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in obese Zucker rats. In a related letter, Xu and coworkers 2 showed that cigarette smoking may act as a cofactor but not as an indep
Hepatitis C virus: How genetic variability affects pathobiology of disease
β Scribed by Kazuaki Chayama; C Nelson Hayes
- Book ID
- 108953947
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 920 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0815-9319
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