Abstract:
BACKGROUND/AIMS:The mechanism of action of recombinant interferon-alpha (rIFN alpha) treatment in chronic hepatitis C is not fully understood, and may include modulation of the immune system as well as a direct antiviral effect. We have therefore evaluated the plasma concentrations of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines in patients with chronic hepatitis C before and during treatment with rIFN alpha. METHODS:Twenty-three patients were studied. Plasma concentrations of IL-1 beta, IL-6, TNF, IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA) and soluble TNF receptors (sTNFRs) type I and type II were determined twice before rIFN alpha treatment (on day -11 and day 1), and on days 11, 32 and 120 of treatment. RESULTS:IL-1 beta, IL-6 and TNF plasma concentrations were rarely increased before treatment (in one, six and seven patients, respectively), and usually declined during treatment. sTNFRs I and II plasma concentrations were not increased either before or during treatment. This was not the case for IL-1RA. In untreated patients, the plasma concentration of IL-1RA was higher than normal in 16 out of 23 patients. When rIFN alpha treatment was initiated, there was a constant and dramatic increase in IL-1RA levels, which reached 8 times the upper limit of the normal range (p < 0.001 as compared to pretreatment values). This increase was sustained up to day 120. CONCLUSIONS:These results indicate that induction of an anti-inflammatory status through modulation of the IL-1/IL-1RA balance may be a key mechanism of action of rIFN alpha treatment in chronic hepatitis C.
journal_name
J Hepatoljournal_title
Journal of hepatologyauthors
Naveau S,Emilie D,Borotto E,Portier A,Lazizi Y,Giraud V,Grangeot-Keros L,Capron F,Galanaud P,Chaput JCdoi
10.1016/s0168-8278(97)80171-7subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1997-08-01 00:00:00pages
272-5issue
2eissn
0168-8278issn
1600-0641pii
S0168-8278(97)80171-7journal_volume
27pub_type
杂志文章abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) prevents osteoporosis in postmenopausal women by inhibiting bone resorption, but the benefits of oestrogen therapy in liver transplant patients have not been studied. METHODS:The effect of transdermal HRT was studied in 33 postmenopausal liver transplant women. The mai...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0168-8278(00)00067-2
更新日期:2001-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:Gadolinium chloride inactivates Kupffer cells and alleviates alcohol-induced liver lesions. We investigated the mechanism of gadolinium chloride protection after oral ethanol feeding. METHODS:Rats were maintained ethanol-intoxicated for 6 weeks by feeding ethanol in a low-carbohydrate/high-fat liquid d...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0168-8278(00)80094-x
更新日期:2000-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The prolylhydroxylase inhibitor HOE 077 which has proven to be liver-selective in animals was tested in general pharmacological and toxicological studies for unwanted effects and safety. The results of these studies permit clinical development. A single-dose study in healthy volunteers was performed which showed that ...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/0168-8278(91)90009-z
更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND & AIMS:Most cholesterol gallstones have a core consisting of inorganic and/or organic calcium salts, although the mechanisms of core formation are poorly understood. We examined whether the paracellular permeability of ions at hepatic tight junctions is involved in the core formation of cholesterol gallstone...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2018.08.025
更新日期:2018-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2008.05.026
更新日期:2008-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) disease is caused by both necroinflammation and active viral replication. The role of ALT levels as a predictor of liver injury has recently been questioned. The aim of the study was to determine whether normal ALT is associated with liver injury in a cohort of HBV patien...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2007.07.022
更新日期:2007-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:The Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor (PPAR) alpha belongs to the superfamily of Nuclear Receptors and plays an important role in numerous cellular processes, including lipid metabolism. It is known that PPARalpha also has an anti-inflammatory effect, which is mainly achieved by down-regulating...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2006.11.019
更新日期:2007-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND & AIMS:Fetal safety of antiviral therapies is important given the long-term treatment of women with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection who may become pregnant. We analyzed neonatal safety data from the Antiretroviral Pregnancy Registry (APR), the largest safety database in pregnancy for antivirals used for ...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2012.06.031
更新日期:2012-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Individuals who reach the antibody threshold level of 10IU/l against the surface protein of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) after completion of a series of hepatitis B vaccination are considered to be long-term protected against a clinically manifest HBV infection. CASE REPORT:Here we describe an acute hepatiti...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2008.07.040
更新日期:2009-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Chronic liver failure resulting from hepatitis C virus infection often necessitates orthotopic liver transplantation. Recurrence of hepatitis C virus infection after transplantation is inevitable, and the infection is usually severe. Interferon and ribavirin have both been used to treat hepatitis C virus inf...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1995-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND & AIMS:Neonatal sclerosing cholangitis (NSC) is a severe neonatal-onset cholangiopathy commonly leading to liver transplantation (LT) for end-stage liver disease in childhood. Liver biopsy findings histopathologically resemble those in biliary atresia (BA); however, in NSC extrahepatic bile ducts are patent,...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2016.07.017
更新日期:2016-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:The applicability of adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation has not been established yet. We report the first data in a European center of the process leading to this procedure from the first moment the patients were informed about it. METHODS:In phase 1 of the process, 121 adult patients en...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2005.02.016
更新日期:2005-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND & AIMS:Prevalence data for hepatitis B and C and an evaluation of a guideline based screening in the primary care setting are not yet available. We therefore implemented a hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening and developed guideline based screening strategies. METHO...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2015.01.011
更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND & AIMS:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an aggressive cancer with a poor prognosis mainly due to metastasis. MicroRNAs are endogenous small noncoding RNAs that regulate cellular gene expression and are functionally linked to tumourigenesis. Using microarray analysis, we recently identified 20 miRNAs associa...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2009.12.025
更新日期:2010-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::The natural history of HBV is known to be complicated by HIV-co-infection. In contrast, the effect of HBV on the outcome of patients infected with HIV-1 is controversial. Some cohort studies from the pre-HAART era described a more rapid progression to AIDS in patients carrying antibodies to the core-antigen or having ...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2005.11.007
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND & AIMS:Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) plays an essential role in mediating organ injury in acute liver failure (ALF) and acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF). Herein, we assess whether inhibiting TLR4 signaling can ameliorate liver failure and serve as a potential treatment. METHODS:Circulating TLR4 ligands a...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2020.01.011
更新日期:2020-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:Aberrant c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) activation has been linked to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in mouse models. It remains unclear whether JNK activation plays an important role in human HCC and, if so, how JNK signaling contributes to the initiation or progression of HCC. METHODS:The JNK activati...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2008.07.037
更新日期:2009-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:Pegylated interferon plus ribavirin can cause dose-limiting anemia. Taribavirin, a ribavirin prodrug, has shown a lower incidence of anemia. We sought to determine the efficacy and safety of taribavirin vs. ribavirin combined with pegylated interferon in patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC). METHODS...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2007.02.018
更新日期:2007-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Short- and long-term effects of intraperitoneally transplanted microcarrier attached liver cells (MAL) have been studied in two experimental models of severe liver insufficiency in the rat: subtotal hepatectomy (HX) and acute liver ischemia. Intraperitoneal transplantation of MAL immediately after subtotal hepatectomy...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0168-8278(89)90075-5
更新日期:1989-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:Liver negative-strand hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA is the most direct indicator of active viral replication but has only been examined in a few semiquantitative studies. METHODS:Positive- and negative-strand HCV RNA in the right (R) and left (L) liver lobes was quantified by rTth-based strand-specific r...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2005.10.014
更新日期:2006-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2020.08.013
更新日期:2021-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:In these studies, we tested the hypothesis that increased lipid intake would exacerbate the severity of nutritional steatohepatitis. METHODS:C57Bl/6J mice were fed methionine-and-choline deficient (MCD) diets containing 20% (high) or 5% (low) fat by weight for 3 weeks and compared to lipid-matched cont...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2008.03.026
更新日期:2008-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is among the most prevalent human malignancies worldwide with rising incidence in industrialised countries, few therapeutic options and poor prognosis. To expand and improve therapeutic strategies, identification of drug targets involved in several liver cancer-related pathways is crucia...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2017.06.021
更新日期:2017-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:Phase I/II studies of 4 weeks duration have confirmed the ALT lowering effect of glycyrrhizin in Western chronic hepatitis C patients. Our aim was to determine the dose frequency of glycyrrhizin required to maintain the ALT response beyond 4 weeks and evaluate its effect on liver histology and quality o...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2006.05.015
更新日期:2006-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:Some patients chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) have persistently normal alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels while progressive liver damage is observed histologically. In the present study, we compared the rate of proliferation, apoptosis, and necrosis in liver biopsy specimens of ...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1034/j.1600-0641.2000.033004640.x
更新日期:2000-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0168-8278(00)00080-5
更新日期:2001-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::MRI has emerged as the most comprehensive non-invasive diagnostic tool for liver diseases. In recent years, the value of MRI in hepatology has been significantly enhanced by a wide range of contrast agents, both clinically available and under development, that add functional information to anatomically detailed morpho...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2020.06.020
更新日期:2020-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is known to induce fulminant hepatic failure. The aim of this study is to clarify the molecular basis of liver injury in HSV-induced hepatitis. METHODS:Immunocompetent mice were inoculated with HSV or ultraviolet-inactivated HSV (UV-HSV) intravenously. Extent of liver injury ...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0168-8278(03)00385-4
更新日期:2003-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND & AIMS:During chronic HCV infection, T cell dependent virus-specific antibodies are produced. However, the role of B-T cell interaction in chronic HCV is largely unknown. CD4(+)CXCR5(+) T follicular helper (TFH)-cells activate B cells and are important for clearance of various chronic viral infections. We in...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2014.09.024
更新日期:2015-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:The glycosphingolipid alpha-galactosylceramide has been shown to activate invariant natural killer T cells when presented in the context of CD1d and induces powerful antiviral immune responses via the production of inflammatory cytokines. The aim of this study was to investigate the safety and the antiv...
journal_title:Journal of hepatology
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2007.04.018
更新日期:2007-09-01 00:00:00