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Immunoglobulin A and liver diseases [PDF]
Journal of Gastroenterology, 2017 Immunoglobulin A (IgA) is a major immunoglobulin isotype in the gut and plays a role in maintenance of gut homeostasis. Secretory IgA (SIgA) has multiple functions in the gut, such as to regulate microbiota composition, to protect intestinal epithelium from pathogenic microorganisms, and to help for immune-system development.
Tatsuo Inamine, Bernd Schnabl
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Sphingomyelinases and Liver Diseases [PDF]
Biomolecules, 2020 Sphingolipids (SLs) are critical components of membrane bilayers that play a crucial role in their physico-chemical properties. Ceramide is the prototype and most studied SL due to its role as a second messenger in the regulation of multiple signaling pathways and cellular processes.
Naroa Insausti-Urkia +3 more
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Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 1999 A mild to moderate iron excess is found in patients with liver diseases apparently unrelated to genetic hemochromatosis. Iron appears to affect the natural history of hepatitis C virus‐related chronic liver diseases, alcoholic liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis by leading to a more severe fibrosis and thus aiding the evolution to cirrhosis ...
S.R. Fargion +3 more
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Liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease [PDF]
Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 1993 Alcoholism is a disease of remission and relapse. A lapse in abstinence tends to be viewed as a failure to commit to abstinence, and an acknowledged relapse may lead to the patient's removal from the liver transplant list; however, such a relapse may actually offer insight into alcoholism.
Patrizia, Burra, Michael R, Lucey
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On Diseases of the Liver [PDF]
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences3d American, from the 3d and rev. London ed. ; xii, 499 p.
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PPAR Research, 2013 This special issue of PPAR Research contains four interesting reviews and a research article examining the relevance of PPARs to liver diseases. Peroxisome proliferation-activated receptors (PPARs) are members of the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily and have been implicated in a variety of pathologic processes. PPARs require heterodimerization with
Yasuteru Kondo +3 more
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Lipoproteins in Liver Disease [PDF]
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, 1987 Liver disease is associated with profound and characteristic changes in lipoprotein composition and metabolism. The most pronounced alterations are the formation of lipoprotein-X in intra- and extrahepatic cholestasis, the decrease of apolipoproteins A-I and A-II and the increase of apolipoprotein E.
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Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2015 Deranged liver function tests are encountered in 3% of pregnancies. The potential causes are classified as those unique to and those just incidental to pregnancy. Pregnancy-related diseases are the most frequent causes of liver dysfunction during pregnancy and exhibit a trimester-specific occurrence during pregnancy.
Shashank Shekhar, Gaurav Diddi
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Medicine, 2007 The liver is frequently involved in infections that are prevalent in different regions of the tropics, and chronic liver disease, sometimes with multiple aetiological explanations, is an important cause of early morbidity and mortality. This article describes some hepatic and biliary problems that are seen in the tropics, or which may be imported from ...
Nicholas J. Beeching +3 more
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