Method for researching the type of liver damage

摘要

A method of testing to discriminate a type of a liver injury, comprising measuring a level of lithocholic acid, hereinafter abbreviated as ACL, in a biological sample collected from a subject to use the ACL level as an indicator of the method The test further comprises: determining the type of hepatic injury as a type of hepatocellular lesion when the measured level of ACL is equal to or greater than a predetermined cut-off value of the ACL level to identify hepatic lesion of the hepatocellular lesion type or determine the type of hepatic lesion. Hepatic injury as a cholestasis type when the measured level of ACL is equal to or less than a predetermined cut-off value of the ACL level to identify cholestasis-type liver injury or to determine the type of hepatic injury as a mixed type of hepatocellular lesion and of the cholestasis type when the measured level of ACL is greater than a predetermined cut-off value of the ACL level to identify the hepatic ion of hepatocellular lesion type and is less than a predetermined cutoff value of the ACL level to identify hepatic lesion of cholestasis type.