NEW KNOWLEDGE IN PRIMARY BILIARY-CIRRHOSIS

Authors
GERSHWIN ME MACKAY IR
Citation
Me. Gershwin et Ir. Mackay, NEW KNOWLEDGE IN PRIMARY BILIARY-CIRRHOSIS, Hospital practice, 30(8), 1995, pp. 29-36
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Hospital practice → ACNP
ISSN journal
87502836
Volume
30
Issue
8
Year of publication
1995
Pages
29 - 36
Database
ISI
SICI code
8750-2836(1995)30:8<29:NKIPB>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
The antoantibodies characteristic of the disease react against mitocho ndrial enzymes essential to the function of all body cells, yet the di sease is highly focused on only one tissue: the epithelial fining of i ntrahepatic bile ductules. The explanation may lie in tissue-specific cell-surface expression of a triggering antigen.