Daily Monitoring of Serum Wisteria floribunda Agglutinin-Positive Mac-2 Binding Protein Is Useful for Predicting Therapeutic Effect of Tolvaptan in Cirrhotic Ascites

Wisteria floribunda agglutinin (WFA) is a lectin that binds to the sugar chain of Mac-2 binding protein (M2BP), and WFA-positive M2BP (WFA+-M2BP) has been reported as a useful marker for assessing liver fibrosis in chronic liver disease. Tolvaptan (TLV), a selective vasopressin V2 receptor antagonis...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine 2020, Vol.252(4), pp.287-296
Hauptverfasser:	Takamura, Masaaki, Sakamaki, Akira, Arao, Yoshihisa, Setsu, Toru, Kamimura, Hiroteru, Yokoo, Takeshi, Kamimura, Kenya, Tsuchiya, Atsunori, Terai, Shuji
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	hepatic ascites liver cirrhosis tolvaptan treatment efficacy Wisteria floribunda agglutinin-positive Mac-2 binding protein
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