Hepatitis C Virus May Need Enzyme's Help To Cause Liver Disease

Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 09:28 in Health & Medicine

A key enzyme may explain how hepatitis C infection leads to serious liver diseases. A new shows that fatty acid synthase is highly elevated in human liver cells exposed to the hepatitis C virus, suggesting that testing enzyme levels could help predict more serious, long-lasting health consequences from hepatitis C.

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