Anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies in patients with abnormal liver tests: Is it always coeliac disease?

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2472-2477

  Iacono, Oreste Lo ^a   Petta, Salvatore ^a   Venezia, Giovanna ^a   Di Marco, Vito ^a   Tarantino, Giuseppe ^a   Barbaria, Francesco ^a   Mineo, Claudia ^a   De Lisi, Stefania ^a   Almasio, Piero Luigi ^a   Craxì, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT ANTIBODY; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AUTOANTIBODY; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSGLUTAMINASE 2;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ARTICLE; CELIAC DISEASE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DUODENUM BIOPSY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOPSY; DUODENOSCOPY; DUODENUM; FATTY LIVER; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER; LIVER DISEASE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOPSY; CELIAC DISEASE; DUODENOSCOPY; DUODENUM; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSGLUTAMINASES;

EID: 33644659859     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2005.00244.x     Document Type: Article

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