Adipokines in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: from pathogenesis to implications in diagnosis and therapy.

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Published in Mediators Inflamm on June 03, 2009

Authors

Emmanuel A Tsochatzis1, George V Papatheodoridis, Athanasios J Archimandritis

Author Affiliations

1: 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School of Athens University, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece. mtsochatzis@med.uoa.gr

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