Drug-induced liver injury: Is it somehow foreseeable?
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Drug-induced liver injury.
Drug-induced liver injury is a frequent cause of hepatic dysfunction. Reliably establishing whether the liver disease was caused by a drug requires the exclusion of other plausible causes and the search for a clinical drug signature. The drug signature consists of the pattern of liver test abnormality, the duration of latency to symptomatic presentation, the presence or absence of immune-mediat...
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1Office of Computational Science, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA 2Center of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany 3Department of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA 4Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research,...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Gastroenterology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1007-9327
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.15.2817