Clinical value of the determination of serum guanase activity in patients with chronic hepatitis type C

Journal of Medical Investigation

Volumn 50, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 64-71

  Matsunaga, Hiroko ^a   Honda, Hirohito ^a   Kubo, Kenichirou ^a   Sannomiya, Katsutaka ^a   Cui, Xuezhi ^a   Toyota, Yoshio ^a   Mori, Toshifumi ^a   Muguruma, Naoki ^a   Okahisa, Toshiya ^a   Okamura, Seisuke ^a   Shimizu, Ichiro ^a   Ito, Susumu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

ALT; Chronic hepatitis; Guanase; HCV

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GUANINE DEAMINASE; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCREENING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BLOOD; COMORBIDITY; ENZYMOLOGY; EVALUATION; HEPATITIS B; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MASS SCREENING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD DONORS; COMORBIDITY; GUANINE DEAMINASE; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MASS SCREENING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037762732     PISSN: 13431420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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