Hepatocellular injury with hyperaminotransferasemia after cresol ingestion

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 364-366

  Kamijo, Yoshito ^a   Soma, Kazui ^a   Kokuto, Mikio ^a   Ohbu, Makoto ^a   Fuke, Chiaki ^b   Ohwada, Takashi ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CHARCOAL; FAMOTIDINE; META CRESOL; ORTHO CRESOL; PARA CRESOL;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; DIURESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERAMINOTRANSFERASEMIA; IN VITRO STUDY; INTOXICATION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL DAMAGE; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADULT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANTI-ULCER AGENTS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CHARCOAL; CRESOLS; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; FAMOTIDINE; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; MALE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 0037344935     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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