Liver Function in Health and Disease

Recent research progress in galactose-based fluorescent probes for detection of biomarkers of liver diseases

“…Clinically, liver injury is assessed in various methods, such as applying the serum liver enzymes level of alanine transaminase (ALT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), and aspartate transaminase (AST) to estimate hepatitis, 15 and the oncogene marker alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) to evaluate liver cancer. 16 Serum testing has become the most commonly used procedure for clinical diagnosis due to its high efficiency, while morphological information cannot be provided.…”