Impaired hepatic mitochondrial oxidation using the 13C-methionine breath test in patients with macrovesicular steatosis and patients with cirrhosis

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Spahr, Laurent ^a   Negro, Francesco ^a   Leandro, Gioacchino ^b   Marinescu, Oana ^a   Goodman, Keith J ^c   Rubbia Brandt, Laura ^a   Jordan, Martha ^a   Hadengue, Antoine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DIGESTIVE DISEASES   (Italy)

^c METABOLIC SOLUTIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Liver biopsy; Methionine; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMINOPHENAZONE; CARBON 13; METHIONINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREATH ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECARBOXYLATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER METABOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSOME; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; SCORING SYSTEM; STEATOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINOPYRINE; BIOPSY; BREATH TESTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; METHIONINE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIA, LIVER; OBESITY; OXYGEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037274675     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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