“…Asialoglycoprotein receptor (hepatic lectin) is another hepatocytic membrane constituent that has been associated with reactivity in auto-immune CAH nature.13s 14. [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] but the specificity of this reactivity is also not establi~hed.~~ Until the antigenic components of the hepatocytic membrane can be fully characterized and the pathogenicity of antibodies to these antigens demonstrated, the serologic reactivities to liver-specific antigens are of uncertain diagnostic or pathologic significance, and they may well represent background reactivity to a host of hepatocytic constituents released during cytodestruction.…”