Hepatic glutathione deficiency in chronic hepatitis C: Quantitative evaluation in patients who are HIV positive and HIV negative and correlations with plasmatic and lymphocytic concentrations and with the activity of the liver disease

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2569-2573

  Barbaro, Giuseppe ^a,e   Di Lorenzo, Gabriella ^a   Soldini, Maurizio ^a   Parrotto, Sandro ^a   Bellomo, Giorgio ^b   Belloni, Giancarlo ^c   Grisorio, Benvenuto ^d   Barbarini, Giorgio ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; GLUTATHIONE; INTERFERON; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE; HEPATITIS C; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; LIVER; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0029903665     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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