Zinc Administration and Improved Serum Markers of Hepatic Fibrosis in Patients with Autoimmune Hepatitis.
Kei MoriyaNorihisa NishimuraTadashi NamisakiHiroaki TakayaYasuhiko SawadaHideto KawarataniKosuke KajiNaotaka ShimozatoShinya SatoMasanori FurukawaAkitoshi DouharaTakemi AkahaneAkira MitoroJunichi YamaoHitoshi YoshijiPublished in: Journal of clinical medicine (2021)
Long-term treatment with polaprezinc has been demonstrated to safely improve serum fibrosis indices through increases in MMP-2/-9 and MMP-9/TIMP-1 and is expected to be well combined with direct antifibrotic therapies such as molecularly targeted agents.