Subnormal serum levels of liver enzymes are clinically significant and can indicate a variety of underlying conditions. Recognizing these patterns can aid in the early diagnosis and management of ...

For patients with chronic viral hepatitis, clinicians instinctively rely on liver enzyme measurements to estimate disease activity and assess need for liver biopsy or antiviral treatment.

This makes the results published by Almut Schulze and colleagues from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) all the more surprising: when the researchers blocked the enzyme aldolase A, which ...