Our data support the findings of Wieckowska et al. 2 in demonstrating that measuring serum CK-18 fragments level could potentially be used as a noninvasive diagnostic test to predict the severity of NAFLD; however, before the liver biopsy is abandoned altogether, verification of the noninvasive diag
Hepatitis C virus RNA kinetics in chimeric mice with human hepatocytes during antiviral therapy
β Scribed by Kazuaki Inoue; Tsunamasa Watanabe; Makoto Yoshiba; Michinori Kohara
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 62 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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