Serum dipeptidylpeptidase activity and tissue polypeptide specific antigen in patients with advanced cirrhosis: Preliminary results

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 292, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 181-185

  Akbay, Ayşegül ^a   Bozbaş, Aysun ^a   Işgör, Yasemin ^a   Yavuz, Yasemin ^a   Elgün, Serenay ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Dipeptidylpeptidase IV; Human; Liver cirrhosis; Serum; Tissue polypeptide specific antigen

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 18; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE IV; TISSUE POLYPEPTIDE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANTIGENS, CD26; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PEPTIDES;

EID: 0033961646     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(99)00214-4     Document Type: Article

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