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Determining Bile Duct Density in the Mouse Liver
Published on: April 30, 2019
[Liver, bile ducts and pancreatic diseases]
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hamamatsu University, School of Medicine.
Abstract:
A fundamental guideline for the use of test results concerning liver, bile duct and pancreatic diseases was proposed in 1991 from the Japan Society of Clinical Pathology (JSCP). This guideline was principally based on the document of 1988 from the Committee on liver function tests of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSG). The document from the JSG was revised in May, 1994. Also a guideline for selection of markers of hepatitis virus in hepatic disorders, was proposed in January, 1994 from the same Committee of JSG. Here, we reevaluated and discussed the JSCP guideline as taking into consideration the two 1994 JSG documents.
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