Steatosis in chronic hepatitis C: Relationship to the virus and host risk factors
โ Scribed by Carla AL Matos; Renata M Perez; Mauricio S Pacheco; Claudio G Figueiredo-Mendes; Edmundo Lopes-Neto; Evandro B Oliveira Jr; Valeria P Lanzoni; Antonio EB Silva; Maria LG Ferraz
- Book ID
- 108950788
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 73 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0815-9319
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## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Hepatic steatosis is one of the histopathologic features of chronic hepatitis C. It was reported recently that the expression of hepatitis C virus (HCV) core protein in transgenic mice induced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in association with steatosis. The objective of