Does the hormone of eternal youth protect against nonalcoholic steatohepatitis?

Hepatology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1351-

  Manco, Melania ^a   Bottazzo, GianFranco ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; FATTY ACID; PRASTERONE;

ANDROGEN RELEASE; BODY MASS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPOTHESIS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LETTER; LIVER PROTECTION; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; FATTY LIVER; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; METABOLISM; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADIPONECTIN; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; FATTY LIVER; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X;

EID: 54449083208     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.22372     Document Type: Letter

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