Preventive Female Sex Factors against the Development of Chronic Liver Disease.:

Liver cancer, cirrhosis and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease are observed predominately in men. Being male or female is believed to be an important human variable that affects health and liver disease throughout the life span. However, few works have been published on the biological mechanisms under...

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1. Verfasser: Shimizu, Ichiro
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Sharjah : Bentham Science Publishers, 2012.
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Zusammenfassung:Liver cancer, cirrhosis and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease are observed predominately in men. Being male or female is believed to be an important human variable that affects health and liver disease throughout the life span. However, few works have been published on the biological mechanisms underlying gender specific differences in liver disease. Several mechanisms underlying sex-associated differences of progression of liver disease are demonstrated in this e-book based on biological factors as estrogen and hepatic iron stores. Readers will gain a better understanding of the pathogenesis o.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (126 pages)
ISBN:9781608052936
1608052931

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