TY - GEN AU - Omaima Mostafa Mahmoud AU - Ali Ahmed Fouad Elhindawi , AU - Magdy Mahmoud Yousef , AU - Soheir Zakaria Mohamed Eissa , TI - Role of hepatic stellate cells in the pathogenesis of hepatic fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C : : An immunohistochmical study / PY - 2008/// CY - Cairo : PB - Omaima Mostafa Mahmoud , KW - Hepatic stellate cells KW - Immunopathogenesis of hepatitis C KW - Liver fibrosis N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Tropical Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -