abstract：:This study set out to examine the relative effectiveness and tolerability of 12- versus 24-week courses of thrice weekly intramuscular lymphoblastoid interferon in the treatment of hepatitis B 'e' antigen (HBeAg)-positive chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, and to identify pretreatment factors predicting the ou...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Scully LJ,Shein R,Karayiannis P,McDonald JA,Thomas HC

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-2, a product of helper T cells, is essentially involved in the regulation of cell-mediated immunity. Two monocyte-derived factors, interleukin-1 and prostaglandin E2, influence interleukin-2 synthesis with opposite actions. To analyse immunoregulatory function in HBsAg-positive chronic active hepatitis, T ...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Civeira M,Prieto J,Morte S,Riñon M,Serrano M

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured plasma abnormal prothrombin (des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin; DCP) levels in normal subjects and in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and other various diseases using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay developed by Motohara et al. (Pediatr Res 1985; 19: 354-357). Fifty-eight percent of 52 patients wi...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Okuda H,Obata H,Nakanishi T,Furukawa R,Hashimoto E

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oesophageal pH was recorded for 3 h after a test-meal in 27 healthy control subjects (group I), 40 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis (group II), and 22 patients with a normal liver and symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux (control refluxers). Gastro-oesophageal reflux was observed in 10 of the cirrhotic patients....

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Arsene D,Bruley des Varannes S,Galmiche JP,Denis P,Chayvialle JA,Hellot MF,Ducrotte P,Colin R

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactitol is a disaccharide analogue of lactulose which is available as a pure crystalline powder. The efficacy of lactitol in the treatment of chronic hepatic encephalopathy was assessed in 9 cirrhotic patients in a randomised, double-blind, cross-over comparison with lactulose. The sugars were dispensed in solutions,...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Morgan MY,Hawley KE,Stambuk D

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a follow-up study of 3 years' duration, serum inhibitory factors (SIF) were analysed in 23 patients with a protracted course of viral hepatitis B (PVH) and 12 patients with chronic persistent hepatitis (CPH). Four patients showed a progressive course, developing chronic active hepatitis, and one died of liver failu...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Brattig NW,Ortmans H,Wildhirt W,Klinge O,Berg PA

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleocapsid antigens (HBc and HBe) are present on the membranes of HBV-infected hepatocytes from HBV carriers. In autologous cytotoxicity experiments we demonstrate that cytotoxic T cells sensitised to the nucleocapsid proteins of hepatitis B are present in HBe antigen-positive HBV carriers with chronic hepatitis...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Pignatelli M,Waters J,Lever A,Iwarson S,Gerety R,Thomas HC

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody, designated K-PLC1, has been produced to a tumour-associated antigen on the cell membrane of the PLC/PRF/5 cell line. Using an indirect immunofluorescence technique this antibody produced membrane staining of three hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cell lines and it has positively stained 10 of 11 h...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Dunk AA,Brown D,Weidmann K,Thomas HC

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-S1 (large S) proteins are components of the envelope of HBV. The presence of pre-S1 proteins is correlated with viral replication. To test sera of patients with HBV infection for the presence of antibodies against pre-S1 proteins (anti-pre-S1), an E. coli extract containing a pre-S fusion protein covering the grea...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Theilmann L,Klinkert MQ,Gmelin K,Kommerell B,Pfaff E

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a single bolus of somatostatin on oesophageal variceal pressure has been studied in 7 patients with cirrhosis and 5 patients with non-cirrhotic portal hypertension using a non-invasive variceal pressure gauge. Both groups of patients demonstrated similar reductions in variceal pressure with all subjects ...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Clements D,Rhodes JM,Elias E

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are three main types of interferon, now designated alpha, beta and gamma. Human interferons-alpha exist as many subtypes, probably more than 26. These are chemically quite closely related, but each has a unique chemical composition and biological properties. Preparations of interferon-alpha derived from stimulat...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Finter NB

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An uncontrolled pilot study of adenine arabinoside monophosphate intramuscularly (ARA-AMP) for 5 days at 10 mg/kg/day and 23 days at 5 mg/kg/day in divided doses, was conducted in 15 consecutive patients known to be HBeAg-positive for a minimum of 12 months. Two patients were lost to follow-up (1 having developed an h...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Alexander GJ,Fagan EA,Rolando N,Guarner P,Callender ME,Eddleston AL,Williams R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxyethyl starch (HES) has gained wide clinical acceptance as a colloidal plasma substitute. We were able to study the liver biopsies of two patients with renal failure who developed ascites after repeated infusions of HES. All types of liver cells displayed massive accumulation of HES with the morphologic resembla...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Dienes HP,Gerharz CD,Wagner R,Weber M,John HD

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural changes were observed in 23 consecutive patients who died from fulminant hepatic failure due to hepatitis B virus (4 cases), sporadic non-A, non-B (7), or paracetamol (acetaminophen) overdose (12) and in 3 patients with subacute hepatic necrosis of unknown cause. The findings are described in detail in...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： McCaul TF,Fagan EA,Tovey G,Portmann B,Williams R,Zuckerman AJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism responsible for liver cell necrosis in patients with hepatitis A is not known. Since the type of hepatic lesions and the clinical presentation of acute hepatitis B are similar and are probably related to the cell-mediated immune response to a viral antigen located in the liver cell, it is possible that a...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Fasel-Folley J,Overby LR,Frei PC

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the epidemiologic and clinical significance of delta infection in the Naples area, we sought anti-delta antibodies in all cases of HBV-associated liver diseases, hospitalized in our department during 1983 (234 acute hepatitis, 9 of which fulminant; 51 chronic hepatitis; 32 cirrhosis; 19 hepatocarcinomas) and...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Amoroso P,Giorgio A,Fico P,Lettieri G,de Stefano G,Scala V,Pesce G,Pierri P,Pempinello R,Finelli L

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV), a defective ribonucleic acid virus dependent on the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) is a cause of severe liver disease that often leads to cirrhosis and death. Since the HDV finds in the HBV infection a biological niche in which to thrive indefinitely, the major victims of its infection are th...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Rizzetto M,Rosina F,Saracco G,Bellando PC,Actis GC,Bonino F,Smedile A,Trinchero P,Sansalvadore F,Pintus C

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome in association with the 'lupus' anticoagulant are described. This anticoagulant was looked for in our patients with an otherwise idiopathic hepatic venous thrombosis because of the presence of a pronounced thrombocytopenia, a prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time or a...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Van Steenbergen W,Beyls J,Vermylen J,Fevery J,Marchal G,Desmet V,De Groote J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between fat-storing cells (FSCs) and Kupffer cells (KCs) in vitro has been studied in an attempt to clarify certain aspects of the pathogenesis of fibrotic process in the liver. FSCs and KCs were isolated from the livers of rats either treated with CCl4 for 6 weeks, or with vitamin A for 6 weeks or fro...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Shiratori Y,Geerts A,Ichida T,Kawase T,Wisse E

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study plasma free fatty acids and adipose tissue fatty acid composition in 10 cirrhotic patients, 5 patients with non-cirrhotic chronic liver disease and in 5 controls have been investigated. Fatty acid composition of adipose tissue in cirrhotic patients demonstrated a significant increase of 16:1 and a decrea...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Merli M,Iapichino S,Bolognese A,Bruni A,Cantafora A,Riggio O,Capocaccia L

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-eight dialysis patients were vaccinated with recombinant hepatitis B vaccine prepared in yeast. Fourty-nine patients were immunized 3 times (months 0, 1, 6) intragluteally with 40 micrograms hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) per dose. Only 32 of them (65.3%) showed anti-HBs concentrations above 10 IU/l with a...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Jilg W,Schmidt M,Weinel B,Küttler T,Brass H,Bommer J,Müller R,Schulte B,Schwarzbeck A,Deinhardt F

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the process whereby replicating Hepatitis B virus is eradicated has been substantially modified by the development of highly sensitive assays of viral replication, such as the detection of HBV-DNA in serum. The implications of these developments on our therapeutic approach in terms of both timing ...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Williams R,Alexander GJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the number and the morphometric characteristics of perisinusoidal cells in perfusion-fixed biopsy samples from 7 control patients with normal liver histology. On 1-micron section, the number of cells was 18 +/- 1.5/0.1 mm2; 25% of cells did not apparently contain lipids. There were no significant zonal dif...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Sztark F,Dubroca J,Latry P,Quinton A,Balabaud C,Bioulac-Sage P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections with the hepatotropic viruses non-A, non-B (NANB), hepatitis B (HBV) and delta agent (HDV) are described in two patients with haemophilia. The first patient illustrates the phenomenon of interference following a simultaneous exposure to NANB and HBV. The second patient, a carrier of hepatitis B surface anti...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Lee CA,Kernoff PB,Karayiannis P,Farci P,Thomas HC

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review summarizes recent progress in the knowledge of catecholamines in cirrhosis. Compensated patients have normal plasma concentration of noradrenaline. Highly elevated plasma noradrenaline concentration in decompensated patients indicates that the sympathetic nervous system is enhanced in this condition. This ...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Henriksen JH,Ring-Larsen H,Christensen NJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver fibrosis is one of the most important factors of disturbed liver function, but could not be measured by simple blood tests until recently. Among several parameters used for this purpose, the aminoterminal procollagen type III peptide (PIIIP) appears to be the most widely accepted. Studies conducted in several cl...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Hahn EG

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A portal hemodynamic study was made in 7 consecutive patients with chronic portal-systemic encephalopathy by percutaneous transhepatic catheterization of the portal vein and injecting contrast medium into the superior mesenteric vein or by superior mesenteric arterial portography in comparison with patients without en...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Takashi M,Igarashi M,Hino S,Takayasu K,Goto N,Musha H,Ohnishi K,Okuda K

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suramin, a polybasic anion, blocks the activity of the DNA polymerase encoded by the duck hepatitis B virus. The interaction with the virus was studied under conditions in which the property of the drug to bind with proteins was used with plasma obtained from infected ducks with viraemia. Inhibition of DNA polymerase ...

journal_title：Journal of hepatology

authors： Tsiquaye K,Zuckerman A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00