Medical Hypotheses
Volume 56, Issue 6 , Pages 709-723 , June 2001

Kinetics and mechanisms of hepatic acute phase response to subtotal partial hepatectomy and cultural impact on environmental hepatic end-stage liver injury in the homeless

  • F.M. Fouad
    • ,
  • O.A. Mamer
    • ,
  • F. Sauriol

      Affiliations

    • The Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Unit, Chemistry Department, McGill University, 1130 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1A3, Canada
    • ,
  • G. Ruhenstroth-Bauer

      Affiliations

    • The Max-Planck Institut fur Biochemie, Martinsried bei Munchen, Germany

Received 31 May 2000

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doi: 10.1054/mehy.2001.1354

Medical Hypotheses
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