Clinicopathological features of acute-onset autoimmune hepatitis

Hepatology Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 263-270

  Okano, Nobuaki ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuhide ^a   Sakaguchi, Kohsaku ^a   Miyake, Yasuhiro ^a   Shimada, Noriaki ^a   Hakoda, Tomomi ^a   Terada, Ryo ^a   Baba, Shinsuke ^a   Suzuki, Takahiro ^a   Tsuji, Takao ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute onset; Autoimmune hepatitis; B lineage cells; CD8 T cells

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AUTOANTIBODY; CD79A ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STAGING; SUPPRESSOR CELL;

EID: 0038748278     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-6346(02)00274-7     Document Type: Article

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