Primary biliary cirrhosis with multinucleated hepatocellular giant cells: Implications for pathogenesis of primary biliary cirrhosis

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1023-1027

  Watanabe, Norihito ^a   Takashimizu, Shinji ^a   Shiraishi, Koichi ^a   Kagawa, Tetehiro ^a   Nishizaki, Yasuhiro ^a   Mine, Tetsuya ^a   Akatsuka, Akira ^a   Selmi, Carlo ^b,c   Gershwin, M Eric ^b  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antimitochondrial antibodies; Liver ultrastructure; Primary biliary cirrhosis; Syncytial giant cell hepatitis

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL DAMAGE; MEASLES VIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRUS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; GIANT CELLS; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33747076036     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.meg.0000230082.60921.be     Document Type: Article

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