Discovery of novel biomarker candidates for liver fibrosis in hepatitis C patients: a preliminary study.

Liver biopsy is the reference standard for assessing liver fibrosis and no reliable non-invasive diagnostic approach is available to discriminate between the intermediate stages of fibrosis. Therefore suitable serological biomarkers of liver fibrosis are urgently needed. We used proteomics to identi...

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Main Authors: Bevin Gangadharan, Manisha Bapat, Jan Rossa, Robin Antrobus, David Chittenden, Bettina Kampa, Eleanor Barnes, Paul Klenerman, Raymond A Dwek, Nicole Zitzmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3383672?pdf=render