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"Second hit" models of alcoholic liver disease.
Seminars in liver disease - 1 May 2009
Tsukamoto Hidekazu, Machida Keigo, Dynnyk Alla, Mkrtchyan Hasmik
Abstract excerpt
Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is a lifestyle disease with its pathogenesis and individual predisposition governed by gene-environment interactions. Based on the "second hit" or "multiple hits" hypothesis, patients are predisposed to progressive ALD when a magic combination of gene and environmental interactions exists. Reproduction of second or multiple hits in animal models serves to test a combination and to...
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