High serum resistin associates with intrahepatic inflammation and necrosis: an index of disease severity for patients with chronic HBV infection

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• 作者：Zhongji Meng ; Yonghong Zhang ; Zhiqiang Wei ; Ping Liu ; Jian Kang…
• 关键词：Resistin ; Proinflammatory cytokines ; Hepatitis B ; Liver cirrhosis ; Liver failure
• 刊名：BMC Gastroenterology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 全文大小：993KB
• 刊物主题：Gastroenterology; Internal Medicine; Hepatology;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-230X
• 卷排序：17

文摘

BackgroundStudies have revealed that resistin plays a role as an intrahepatic cytokine with proinflammatory activities. This study investigated the association between serum resistin and fibrosis severity and the possible marker role of resistin in the inflammatory process of chronic hepatitis B.