To what extent is it right to measure serum vaspin, obestatin, and apelin-36 levels without a protease inhibitor in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease?

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Aydin, Suleyman ^a   Sahin, Ibrahim ^b   Demirel, Ulvi ^a   Aksoy, Aziz ^c  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ERZINCAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c BITLIS EREN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; APELIN; APELIN 36; APROTININ; BENZYLSULFONYL FLUORIDE; CASPASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; KALLIKREIN INHIBITOR; OBESTATIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASPIN;

APOPTOSIS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; TUBE;

FATTY LIVER; GHRELIN; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; SERPINS;

EID: 79959357939     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: 15328600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2011.01.015     Document Type: Letter

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