Omaima Mostafa Mahmoud <br/><br/>
Role of hepatic stellate cells in the pathogenesis of hepatic fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C :   An immunohistochmical study /  
 دور الخلايا النجمية فى احداث التليف الكبدى فى مرضى الالتهاب الكبدى الفيروسى المزمن"س" :   دراسة هستوكيميائية مناعية 
Omaima Mostafa Mahmoud ; Supervised Soheir Zakaria M.Eissa , Ali A.Fouad Elhindawi , Magdy Mahmoud Yousef 
 - Cairo :   Omaima Mostafa Mahmoud ,   2008 
 - 270 P. :   charts , facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Tropical Medicine 
<br/><br/> Chronic hepatitis C is one of the most important health problems.End - stage liver disease due to hepatitis C is the leading indication for liver transplantation.Hepatic fibrosis , the common final manifestation of several chronic liver diseases , is the result of a prominent accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) materials and ultimately can lead to cirrhosis 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Hepatic stellate cells Immunopathogenesis of hepatitis C Liver fibrosis