Albumin mRNA in peripheral white blood cells of cirrhotic patients with a superimposed alcoholic hepatitis is associated to fatal outcome

Hepatology Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 265-274

  Bastidas Ramirez, Blanca Estela ^a,b   Nuo Gonzalez, Patricia ^a,b   Vivas Arceo, Cecilia ^c   Sánchez Orozco, Laura V ^a,b   Panduro, Arturo ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL CIVIL DE GUADALAJARA FRAY ANTONIO ALCALDE   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^c Social Security Hexican Institute   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Albumin gene expression; Alcoholic hepatitis; Cirrhosis with a superimposed alcoholic hepatitis; Colloid osmotic pressure

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FATALITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; ONCOTIC PRESSURE; PLASMA VISCOSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0036847119     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-6346(02)00109-2     Document Type: Article

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