AIM:To test whether colchicine would be an effective antif ibrotic agent for treatment of chronic liver diseases in patients who could not be treated with α-interferon.METHODS:Seventy-four patients(46 males,28 female...
AIM: To investigate the effects of leptin administration on liver fibrosis induced by thioacetamide (TAA). METHODS: Twenty-four male C57BI/6 mice were randomly allocated into four groups, which were intra-peritone...
This study was supported by the grant from the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Foundation (No. A 1999--198).
OBJECTIVE: To assess the significance of serum hyaluronic acid (HA), proeollagen type Ⅲ (PCⅢ), collagen type Ⅳ (CⅣ) in the histological diagnosis of liver fibrosis. METHODS: The concentrations of serum HA, PCⅢ, C...
48 patients with liver fibrosis due to hepatitis B were treated for 2 years with the drugs for tonifying the kidney, supplementing qi, cooling and invigorating the blood and detoxification. The symptoms were markedly ...
AIM To investigate clinic effects of Fuzheng Huayu 319 recipe (319 recipe) on liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B.METHODS Ninety-five patients with chronic hepatitis B were divide into the treated (63 cases) and con...