TIMP2 and alcoholic liver cirrhosis: As shown in Figure 10, serum TIMP-2 showed significantly increased activity in viral cirrhosis (114.78 ± 29.41 ng/mL, p < 0.0001) as well as in alcoholic cirrhosis (171.87 ± 31.87 ng/mL, p < 0.0001) compared to normals (64.12 ± 23.61 ng/mL).