Effect of D-penicillamine on liver fibrosis and inflammation in wilson disease

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 261-263

  Kazemi, Kourosh ^a   Geramizadeh, Bita ^a   Nikeghbalian, Saman ^a   Salahi, Heshmatollah ^a   Bahador, Ali ^a   Nejatollahi, Seyed Mohammad Reza ^a   Dehghani, Seyed Mohsen ^a   Dehghani, Masood ^a   Kakaei, Farzad ^a   Malek Hosseini, Seyed Ali ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

D penicillamine; Liver fibrosis; Wilson disease

Indexed keywords

CHELATING AGENT; COPPER; PENICILLAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WILSON DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHELATING AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COPPER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PENICILLAMINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249123342     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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