From the *Center of Digestive Disease and Liver Transplantation, Fundeni Clinical Institute; †Department of Biochemistry and Proteomics, “Victor Babes” National Institute of Pathology; ‡Stefan S. Nicolau Institute of Virology; and §Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania; and ∥Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Received for publication July 13, 2011; accepted January 10, 2012.
Reprints: Irinel Popescu, MD, PhD, FACS, Center of Digestive Disease and Liver Transplantation, Fundeni Clinical Institute, Sos. Fundeni 258, Sector 2, Bucharest 022328, Romania (e-mail: irinel.pope[email protected]).
This study was supported by grants from the Romanian Ministry of Education-National Council for Scientific Research (PN II 41-024 /2007 and RU-TE100/2010, POSDRU/89/1.5/S/60746 and POS CCE 685/2010).
Drs Popescu, Dima, and Tanase contributed in the conception and design of this study. Drs Popescu and Dumitrascu contributed in the provision of study materials or patients. Drs Tanase, Albulescu, and Dumitrascu contributed in the collection and assembly of data. Ms Purnichescu-Purtan and Drs Chivu-Economescu, Herlea, Dima, and Duda contributed in the data analysis and interpretation. Drs Duda, Dima, and Tanase contributed in the writing of this article. Drs Tanase and Albulescu contributed equally to this study. All of the authors contributed in the final approval of the article.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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