Female hepatology
Subtitle: favorable role of female factors in chronic liver disease
By: Ichiro Shimizu.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hauppauge, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781607416920
Subjects: Liver -- Diseases -- Sex factors; Women -- Diseases; Chronic diseases -- Sex factors; Liver Diseases -- immunology; Liver Diseases -- metabolism; Chronic Disease; Sex Factors; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Liver cancer is predominant in men and postmenopausal women; title: Chronic hepatitis C and B progress more slowly in females than males; title: Hepatic fibrosis and oxidative stress; title: Female sex hormones in hepatic fibrosis; title: Ms, you can never become an 'iron lady'; title: Immune response is affected by estrogens, progesterone and testosterone; title: Females and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; title: 'Female paradox' in alcoholic liver disease; title: Autoimmune liver diseases in females; title: Are estrogens useful as a therapeutic drug for chronic liver disease?; title: Sex and gender specific medicine in chronic liver disease.