Review of the literature on Kampo-induced liver injury: In relation to problems of false-positivity on lymphocyte transformation test

Kanzo/Acta Hepatologica Japonica

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 282-287

  Mantani, Naoki ^a   Kogure, Toshiaki ^a   Kainuma, Mosaburo ^a   Shimada, Yutaka ^a   Terasawa, Katsutoshi ^a  

^a TOYAMA MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOREI TO; FUROSEMIDE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; KAIGEN; KAKKON TO; KAMPO; KINSHI GAN; MK SAN; SAIREI TO; SAIREI TO GO INCHINKO TO; TIOPRONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XIAO CHAI HU TANG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LIVER INJURY; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITOGENESIS;

EID: 0036330516     PISSN: 04514203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2957/kanzo.43.282     Document Type: Article

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