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Novel treatment strategies for liver disease due to α1-antitrypsin deficiency.
Clinical and translational science - 1 Jun 2012
Maurice Nicholas, Perlmutter David H
Abstract excerpt
Alpha1-antitrypsin (AT) deficiency is the most common genetic cause of liver disease in children and is also a cause of chronic hepatic fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma in adults. Recent advances in understanding how mutant AT molecules accumulate within hepatocytes and cause liver cell injury have led to a novel strategy for chemoprophylaxis of this liver disease. This strategy involves a class...
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