Quality of life and cognitive function in hepatitis C at different stages of liver disease.

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:To study effects of pharmacologic concentrations of azathioprine and 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) on rat hepatocytes. METHODS:Hepatocytes cultured on matrigel were incubated with azathioprine or 6-MP; effects of putative protective agents were studied. Viability (LDH leakage), reduced (GSH) and oxidized glu...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Tapner MJ,Jones BE,Wu WM,Farrell GC

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Severe alcoholic hepatitis occurs mainly in patients with cirrhosis, and has a high death rate. Corticosteroid therapy has been particularly advocated as reducing mortality in patients with severe histologic lesions. However, identification of these patients is difficult, requiring transvenous liver bio...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Castera L,Hartmann DJ,Chapel F,Guettier C,Mall F,Lons T,Richardet JP,Grimbert S,Morassi O,Beaugrand M,Trinchet JC

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) can be dreadful. When coma sets in, brain edema develops taking FHF into a lethal course. Mechanisms of brain extravasation leading to brain edema remain incompletely understood. Matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 is implicated in various brain injuries. We hypothesized tha...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Nguyen JH,Yamamoto S,Steers J,Sevlever D,Lin W,Shimojima N,Castanedes-Casey M,Genco P,Golde T,Richelson E,Dickson D,McKinney M,Eckman CB

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AIMS:In hepatitis C there is controversy over the linearity of the rate of progression and the significance of gender, mode of infection and viral factors. METHODS:2313 untreated patients with a reliable estimated duration of infection and liver fibrosis were included. Fibrosis progression was calculated us...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Poynard T,Ratziu V,Charlotte F,Goodman Z,McHutchison J,Albrecht J

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:To relate severity of intoxication with allyl alcohol and acetaminophen to modulated hepatic gene expression of liver functions and regeneration. METHODS:Rats fasted for 12 h received acetaminophen 3.5 or 5.6 g per kg body weight, or allyl alcohol 100 or 125 microl by gastric tube, doses producing no a...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Tygstrup N,Jensen SA,Krog B,Dalhoff K

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heart and liver are organs that are closely related in both health and disease. Patients who undergo liver transplantation may suffer from heart disease that is: (a) related to the original cause of the liver disease such as hemochromatosis, (b) related to the liver disease itself, or (c) related to other associat...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Ripoll C,Yotti R,Bermejo J,Bañares R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Apoptosis of bile duct cells occurs in hepatic allografts and is correlated with acute rejection. bcl-2 protein counteracts apoptosis and prolongs cell survival. We therefore tested the expression of bcl-2 protein in bile ducts of liver grafts in comparison with those of liver cirrhosis. METHODS:115 bi...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Gapany C,Zhao M,Zimmermann A

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:To review our experience of thrombolytic therapy in patients with acute Budd Chiari syndrome (BCS). METHODS:Records of 10 patients with BCS, treated by thrombolysis over a 12-year period were retrospectively analysed for demographics, clinical presentation/duration, primary disease, thrombolytic regime...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Sharma S,Texeira A,Texeira P,Elias E,Wilde J,Olliff SP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The association between polyarteritis nodosa and viral hepatitis B infection is well established and still remains a therapeutic challenge. Famciclovir--a new nucleoside analog--has a broad spectrum of antiviral activity against herpes viruses and the human hepatitis B virus. CASE REPORT:A 56-year-old man w...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Kruger M,Böker KH,Zeidler H,Manns MP

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activities of superoxide dismutase, catalase and glutathione peroxidase were measured in liver biopsy specimens from patients with various liver diseases, including six with chronic persistent hepatitis, nine with chronic active hepatitis, nine with non-alcoholic cirrhosis, eight with alcoholic cirrhosis and eight wit...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Togashi H,Shinzawa H,Wakabayashi H,Nakamura T,Yamada N,Takahashi T,Ishikawa M

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:The pathomechanisms underlying non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and the involved molecular regulators are incompletely explored. The nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB)-cofactor gene B cell leukemia-3 (Bcl-3) plays a critical role in altering the transcriptional capacity of NF-κB - a key inducer o...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Gehrke N,Wörns MA,Huber Y,Hess M,Straub BK,Hövelmeyer N,Waisman A,Kim YO,Schuppan D,Galle PR,Schattenberg JM

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:In this study, a detailed morphometrical analysis of the hepatic microvasculature in the different zones of hepatic parenchyma was performed in normal and cirrhotic rat liver (CCl4-induced). The aims were to detect, in CCl4-induced cirrhosis, the real presence of the "capillarization" of hepatic sinusoi...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Onori P,Morini S,Franchitto A,Sferra R,Alvaro D,Gaudio E

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Portal hypertension is associated with systemic vasodilatation and vascular hyporeactivity, and is reversed by inhibiting nitric oxide biosynthesis. Nitric oxide and calcitonin gene-related peptide are neurotransmitters of non-adrenergic non-cholinergic nerves. The role of nitric oxide and calcitonin ge...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Moll-Kaufmann C,Sumanovski LT,Sieber CC

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:We evaluated the test performance profile (TPP) of blood tests of liver fibrosis. METHODS:Three hundred and fifty-six patients with C chronic hepatitis were included in two centers. Metavir staging of liver specimens by two independent pathologists and the following tests were evaluated: Fibrotest (FT)...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Halfon P,Bacq Y,De Muret A,Penaranda G,Bourliere M,Ouzan D,Tran A,Botta D,Renou C,Bréchot MC,Degott C,Paradis V

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiologic agent responsible for epidemics of enterically-transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis has been molecularly characterized as the hepatitis E virus (HEV). The cloning of a portion of the Burma strain of HEV (HEV(B); 'Old World' strain) has been described together with the isolation of a contiguous overlapping ...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Reyes GR,Huang CC,Yarbough PO,Tam AW

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Bio-artificial liver support systems for treatment of hepatic failure require maintained expression of hepatocyte function in vitro. We studied cultures of human hepatocyte cell-lines proliferating within alginate beads, investigating the hypothesis that 3-dimensional cohesive colonies of hepatocyte cel...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Khalil M,Shariat-Panahi A,Tootle R,Ryder T,McCloskey P,Roberts E,Hodgson H,Selden C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:The mechanisms of treatment resistance to interferon (IFN) and ribavirin (Rib) combination therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are not known. This study aims to gain insight into these mechanisms by exploring hepatic gene expression before and during treatment. METHODS:Liver biopsy was perf...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Honda M,Nakamura M,Tateno M,Sakai A,Shimakami T,Shirasaki T,Yamashita T,Arai K,Yamashita T,Sakai Y,Kaneko S

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to determine the effects of chronic portal diversion on antioxidant levels in the rat liver. Male Sprague-Dawley rats (n = 32) were used for these studies. An end-to-side portacaval anastomosis was constructed in 17 of the rats. Sham-operated rats (n = 15) served as controls. Two w...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Benoit JN,Grisham MB,Mesh CL,Korthuis RJ,Granger DN

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Retrorsine, a naturally occurring pyrrolizidine alkaloid, impairs liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy by mechanisms that are still unclear. AIM:The aim of the study was to clarify the influence of retrorsine on cell cycle progression in the regenerating liver lobes of rats after portal branch ligat...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Picard C,Lambotte L,Starkel P,Sempoux C,Saliez A,Van Den Berge V,de Saeger C,Horsmans Y

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIM:Natural killer T (NKT) cells are CD1d-restricted innate-like T cells that modulate innate and adaptive immune responses. Unlike the well-characterized invariant/type I NKT cells, type II NKT cells with a diverse T cell receptor repertoire are poorly understood. This study defines the pathogenic role of...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Weng X,He Y,Visvabharathy L,Liao CM,Tan X,Balakumar A,Wang CR

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of amphotericin B on hepatic microsomal cytochrome P-450 (P-450) concentration was measured in vitro, in vivo and ex vivo in the rat. In vitro, both amphotericin B (0-500 micrograms/ml) and its vehicle, sodium deoxycholate (0-410 micrograms/ml), caused similar dose-dependent decreases of P-450 concentration...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Heidemann H,Holzlöhner U,Heydemann J,Freitag T,Inselmann G

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Septins are ubiquitous and multifunctional scaffold proteins involved in cytoskeletal organization, exocytosis and other cellular processes. We disclose the quiescent hepatic stellate cells (HSCs)-specific expression of a septin subunit Sept4 in the liver, and explore the significance of the septin syst...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Iwaisako K,Hatano E,Taura K,Nakajima A,Tada M,Seo S,Tamaki N,Sato F,Ikai I,Uemoto S,Kinoshita M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Alcoholic cirrhosis is a common indication for liver transplantation. The present study was aimed to assess the influence of superimposed alcoholic hepatitis on the outcome of liver transplantation in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis. METHODS:Survival rates of 68 patients transplanted for alcoholic ci...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Tomé S,Martinez-Rey C,González-Quintela A,Gude F,Brage A,Otero E,Abdulkader I,Forteza J,Bustamante M,Varo E

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The efficacy of anti-viral therapy for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) is lost upon the emergence of resistant virus. Using >500 patient HBV isolates from several entecavir clinical trials, we show that phenotypic susceptibility correlates with genotypic resistance and patient virologic responses. METH...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Baldick CJ,Eggers BJ,Fang J,Levine SM,Pokornowski KA,Rose RE,Yu CF,Tenney DJ,Colonno RJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Simeprevir is an oral hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3/4A protease inhibitor approved for treatment of chronic HCV infection. Baseline NS3 polymorphisms in all patients and emerging mutations in patients who failed to achieve sustained virologic response (SVR) with simeprevir plus peginterferon/ribavirin (...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Lenz O,Verbinnen T,Fevery B,Tambuyzer L,Vijgen L,Peeters M,Buelens A,Ceulemans H,Beumont M,Picchio G,De Meyer S

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histological fibrosis stage is one of the most important prognostic factors in compensated and decompensated alcohol-related liver disease (ALD). Morphological assessment of fibrosis is useful for patient stratification, enabling individualised management, and for evaluation of treatment effects in clinical studies. I...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Lackner C,Tiniakos D

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:To compare the management and the virological and serological efficacy of treatments for chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in HIV positive and negative patients. METHODS:Two hundred and forty-six HIV positive and 205 HIV negative consecutive patients with past or present CHB, seen in October 2008 in particip...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Piroth L,Pol S,Lacombe K,Miailhes P,Rami A,Rey D,Loustau-Ratti V,Morlat P,Goderel I,Sene D,Rosenthal E,Carrat F,Cacoub P,GERMIVIC Study Group.

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uridine 5'-diphosphate-glucose dolichyl-phosphate glucosyltransferase and bile acid glucosyltransferase were quantitatively determined in subcellular fractions obtained by differential centrifugation of human liver homogenate. Both enzymes were exclusively enriched in the microsomal fraction with a recovery of total e...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Gartung C,Matern S,Matern H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Therapeutic options for patients failing hepatitis C retreatment are limited. EPIC(3) included a prospective trial assessing long-term peginterferon alfa-2b (PegIFNα-2b) maintenance therapy in patients with METAVIR fibrosis scores (MFS) of F2 or F3 who previously failed hepatitis C retreatment. METHO...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Poynard T,Bruix J,Schiff ER,Diago M,Berg T,Moreno-Otero R,Lyra AC,Carrilho F,Griffel LH,Boparai N,Jiang R,Burroughs M,Brass CA,Albrecht JK

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Despite the clinical and genetic significance of macrotrabecular-massive hepatocellular carcinoma (MTM-HCC), its characteristics on imaging have not been described. This study aimed to characterise MTM-HCC on gadoxetic acid-enhanced MRI and to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy and prognostic value of t...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Rhee H,Cho ES,Nahm JH,Jang M,Chung YE,Baek SE,Lee S,Kim MJ,Park MS,Han DH,Choi JY,Park YN

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00