Eliane Moreira, Luis Fontana, José Luis Periago, Fermín Sánchez De Medina, Ángel Gil – 1 January 1995 – The aim of this study was to evaluate the changes in fatty acid composition of lipids of plasma, erythrocytes, and liver microsomes in rats with liver cirrhosis induced by oral intake of thioacetamide and to determine to what extent the experimental model reproduces the fatty acid tissue alterations reported in human cirrhosis. Two groups of rats were studied.

Jay H. Hoofnagle, Robert L. Carithers, Craig Shapiro, Nancy Ascher – 1 January 1995 – Fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) is defined by the appearance of severe liver injury with hepatic encephalopathy in a previously healthy person. There are an estimated 2,000 cases of FHF in the United States yearly, representing 0.1% of all deaths and, perhaps, 6% of liverrelated deaths. The causes of FHF are many, the chief ones in the United States being hepatitis A; B; non‐A, non‐B and drug induced liver disease.

Hiroko Yamamoto, Yoshikazu Murawaki, Hironaka Kawasaki – 1 January 1995 – To elucidate hepatic collagen metabolism during liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy, we measured collagen content, collagen synthesis, and collagen‐degrading enzyme activity in the remnant livers of rats 3, 5, 7, and 14 days after a partial hepatectomy of 68%.

Rosendo Jardi, Maria Buti, Montserrat Cotrina, Francisco Rodriguez, Helena Allende, Rafael Esteban, Jaime Guardia – 1 January 1995 – The objective of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of hepatitis delta virus (HDV) RNA detection by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in acute and chronic D hepatitis and to correlate with HDV‐RNA detection by dot blot and hepatic delta antigen.

Fritz Von Weizsäcker, Irmgard Pult, Katja Geiss, Stefan Wirth, Hubert E. Blum – 1 January 1995 – Hepatitis B virus (HBV) nucleotide sequences isolated from mother/child pairs were analyzed in three cases of neonatal fulminant hepatitis B (FHB). Heterogeneous HBV sequences consistent with both adw2 and ayw subtype were found in all three mothers. In one case, in which the child survived, both subtypes were transmited. By contrast, only the ayw subtype was present in the two other children with a fatal course of FHB.

R. Randal Bollinger – 1 January 1995

Nancy L. Ascher – 1 January 1995

Byers W. Shaw – 1 January 1995

Teresa L. Wright, Brian Pereira – 1 January 1995

Michael F. Sorrell, Byers W. Shaw – 1 January 1995