Interferon increases serum thrombopoietin in patients with chronic hepatitis C

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 340-342

  Shiota, Goshi ^a   Okubo, Michiko ^a   Kawasaki, Hironaka ^a   Tahara, Tomoyuki ^b  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KIRIN BREWERY CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

chronic hepatitis C; interferon; thrombopoietin

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; LYMPHOBLAST INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT ALPHA INTERFERON; THROMBOPOIETIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0030945745     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1997.552705.x     Document Type: Article

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