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Reproductive Status Is Associated with the Severity of Fibrosis in Women with Hepatitis C

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Vitamin D inhibits proliferation and profibrotic marker expression in hepatic stellate cells and decreases thioacetamide-induced liver fibrosis in rats

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Combined effect of 25-OH vitamin D plasma levels and genetic Vitamin DReceptor (NR 1I1) variants on fibrosis progression rate in HCV patients

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Vitamin D deficiency and a CYP27B1-1260 promoter polymorphism are associated with chronic hepatitis C and poor response to interferon-alfa based therapy

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Common genetic determinants of vitamin D insufficiency: a genome-wide association study

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Low vitamin D serum level is related to severe fibrosis and low responsiveness to interferon-based therapy in genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C

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