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Perinatal Gene Transfer to the Liver [PDF]
, 2011 The liver acts as a host to many functions hence raising the possibility that any one may be compromised by a single gene defect. Inherited or de novo mutations in these genes may result in relatively mild diseases or be so devastating that death within
Buckley, SM +6 more
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Oxidative stress: new insights on the association of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and atherosclerosis [PDF]
, 2015 Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) represents the most common and emerging chronic liver disease worldwide. It includes a wide spectrum of liver diseases ranging from simple fatty liver to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which may progress ...
Albanese, Fabiana +7 more
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Outcomes in liver transplantation: does sex matter? [PDF]
, 2015 A growing literature has highlighted important differences in transplant-related outcomes between men and women. In the United States there are fewer women than men on the liver transplant waitlist and women are two times less likely to receive a ...
Berenguer, Marina +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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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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Studies of liver phosphorylase in hepatic injuries. I. Alteration in enzyme activity [PDF]
, 1978 Phosphorylase activities (total and a form) were determined in the livers of experimental hepatic injuries with carbon tetrachloride or galactosamine and the livers of patients with liver diseases.
Kobayashi, Michio
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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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Recent advances on the mechanisms regulating cholangiocyte proliferation and the significance of the neuroendocrine regulation of cholangiocyte pathophysiology [PDF]
, 2013 Cholangiocytes are epithelial cells lining the biliary epithelium. Cholangiocytes play several key roles in the modification of ductal bile and are also the target cells in chronic cholestatic liver diseases (i.e., cholangiopathies) such as PSC, PBC ...
Alvaro, Domenico +6 more
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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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Matrix metalloproteinases in liver injury, repair and fibrosis. [PDF]
, 2015 The liver is a large highly vascularized organ with a central function in metabolic homeostasis, detoxification, and immunity. Due to its roles, the liver is frequently exposed to various insults which can cause cell death and hepatic dysfunction ...
Baber, John +3 more
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