Elevated urine neopterin levels in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 187-190

  Yaman, Halil ^a   Cakir, Erdinc ^a   Ozcan, Omer ^a   Yesilova, Zeki ^a   Ozcan, Ayhan ^a   Ozgur Akgul, Emin ^a   Kemal Erbil, Mehmet ^a   Bagci, Sait ^a   Bilgi, Cumhur ^a   Dagalp, Kemal ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Grading; Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis; Staging; Urine neopterin

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; INSULIN; NEOPTERIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENZYME TESTS; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPTERIN;

EID: 19944429249     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2004.10.008     Document Type: Article

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