Exposure to a high total dosage of glucocorticoids produces non-alcoholic steatohepatits

Pathology International

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 388-389

  Matsumoto, Toshiharu ^a   Yamasaki, Shigetaka ^a   Arakawa, Atsushi ^a   Abe, Keiko ^a   Abe, Hiroshi ^a   Kon, Kazuyoshi ^a   Kobayashi, Shigeto ^a   Takasaki, Yoshinari ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

AUTOPSY; CELL SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALLORY BODY; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; AGED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LIVER; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE;

EID: 34249819694     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2007.02112.x     Document Type: Letter

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