Liver hepcidin mRNA expression is inappropriately low in alcoholic patients compared with healthy controls

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1158-1165

  Costa Matos, Luís ^a,c   Batista, Paulo ^c   Monteiro, Nuno ^c   Simões, Maria ^d   Egas, Conceição ^d   Pereira, Jorge ^c   Pinho, Helena ^c   Santos, Natália ^c   Ribeiro, João ^d   Cipriano, Maria A ^b   Henriques, Pedro ^c   Girão, Fernando ^c   Rodrigues, Alfredo ^e   Carvalho, Armando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c Centro Hospitalar Tondela Viseu   (Portugal)

^d Biocant Biotechnology Innovation Center   (Portugal)

^e Isoder Lda   (Portugal)

Author keywords

alcoholic liver disease; hepcidin; iron overload

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; FERRITIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEPCIDIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN REGULATION; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRON OVERLOAD; IRON STORAGE; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HUMANS; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 84866326268     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: 14735687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEG.0b013e328355cfd0     Document Type: Article

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