Primary biliary cirrhosis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1261-1273

  Kaplan, Marshall M ^a   Gershwin, M Eric ^b  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; AUTOANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; BEZAFIBRATE; BUDESONIDE; CHLORAMBUCIL; CIMETIDINE; COLCHICINE; COLESTIPOL; COLESTYRAMINE; CYCLOSPORIN; ESTROGEN; EZETIMIBE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT; MALOTILATE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; METRONIDAZOLE; NALOXONE; NALTREXONE; PENICILLAMINE; PREDNISONE; RIFAMPICIN; SILYMARIN; SULINDAC; TAMOXIFEN; UNINDEXED DRUG; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CHOLAGOGUE; PYRUVIC ACID;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FLATULENCE; HAIR LOSS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; META ANALYSIS; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; OSTEOPOROSIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; WEIGHT GAIN; APOPTOSIS; BILE DUCT; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BILE DUCTS; CHOLAGOGUES AND CHOLERETICS; COLCHICINE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; METHOTREXATE; MITOCHONDRIA; PYRUVIC ACID; T-LYMPHOCYTES; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

EID: 25144474552     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra043898     Document Type: Review

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