Periportal Stellate Cells in Subjects with Chronic Hepatitis C with a Varied Serum Alanine Aminotransferase Level
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Address: 1Division of Pathology, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Hiroo, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan 150-8935, 2Department of Internal Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Hiroo, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan 150-8935, 3Drug Safety Research Laboratory, Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Japan, 4Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Kitasato University, Japan, 5Department of Anatomy, Akita University School of Medicine, Japan and 6Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Comparative Hepatology
دوره 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004