LecT‐hepa, a glyco‐marker derived from multiple lectins, as a predictor of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C patients

Kiyoaki Ito, Atsushi Kuno, Yuzuru Ikehara, Masaya Sugiyama, Hiroaki Saito, Yoshihiko Aoki, Teppei Matsui, Masatoshi Imamura, Masaaki Korenaga, Kazumoto Murata, Naohiko Masaki, Yasuhito Tanaka, Shuhei Hige, Namiki Izumi, Masayuki Kurosaki, Shuhei Nishiguchi, Michiie Sakamoto, Masayoshi Kage, Hisashi Narimatsu, Masashi Mizokami – 26 April 2012 – Assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) is critical for predicting disease progression and determining future antiviral therapy.

Ectopic expression of murine CD47 minimizes macrophage rejection of human hepatocyte xenografts in immunodeficient mice

Johan M. Waern, Qinggong Yuan, Urda Rüdrich, Pablo D. Becker, Kai Schulze, Helene Strick‐Marchand, Nicholas D. Huntington, Behrend J. Zacher, Karsten Wursthorn, James P. DiSanto, Carlos A. Guzman, Michael P. Manns, Michael Ott, Michael Bock – 26 April 2012 – Macrophages play an important role in the rejection of xenogeneic cells and therefore represent a major obstacle to generating chimeric mice with human xenografts that are useful tools for basic and preclinical medical research.

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