Shou‐Dong Lee, Yuan‐Jen Wang, Ruey‐Hwa Lu, Cho‐Yu Chan, Kwang‐Juei Lo, Randolph Moeckli – 1 April 1994 – Recently, with an available serological hepatitis E virus diagnostic kit, the prevalence of IgG antibody to hepatitis E virus among Chinese subjects in Taiwan was evaluated by means of a solid‐phase enzyme‐linked immunoassay based on two recombinant hepatitis E virus antigens. The overall prevalence of hepatitis E virus antibody was 10.7% among 384 healthy subjects older than 20 yr but only 0.3% among 600 school‐children and young adolescents younger than 20 yr (p < 0.0001).

Ruth M. Dixon, Peter Styles, Faris N. Al‐Refaie, Graham J. Kemp, Sarah M. Donohue, Beatrix Wonke, A. Victor Hoffbrand, George K. Radda, Bheeshma Rajagopalan – 1 April 1994 – The transverse relaxation time of water protons is shortened by the presence of iron. This shortening depends on the amount and the environment of iron in the sample. We have developed a method for measuring short transverse relaxation time noninvasively by magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Mitchell L. Shiffman, Velimir A. Luketic, Arun J. Sanyal, P. Frederick Duckworth, Preston P. Purdum, Melissa J. Contos, A. Scott Mills, Leslie E. Edinboro, Alphonse Poklis – 1 April 1994 – Recent advances in the medical and surgical treatment of chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis have made it increasingly important to develop noninvasive tests of liver function.

Hartmut Jaeschke, Anwar Farhood, C. Wayne Smith – 1 April 1994 – The role of complement as potential activator for tissue macrophages and neutrophils was investigated in an experimental model of endotoxin‐induced liver injury in male Fischer rats.

Samuel H. Sigal, Shlomo Brill, Lola M. Reid, Isabel Zvibel, Sanjeev Gupta, Douglas Hixson, Ronald Faris, Patricia A. Holst – 1 April 1994 – We developed methods for enriching fetal hepatoblasts by combining panning and multiparametric fluorescence‐activated cell sorting. In unpurified, dissociated fetal liver cell suspensions of embryonic age day 15, 3.2% ± 1.3% and 2.5% ± 0.7% cells expressed albumin and α‐fetoprotein, respectively. The remainder exhibited a hemopoietic, endothelial or stromal cell phenotype.

William M. Pandak, Z. Reno Vlahcevic, Douglas M. Heuman, Kaye S. Redford, John Y. L. Chiang, Philip B. Hylemon – 1 April 1994 – Cholesterol 7α‐hydroxylase, the rate‐limiting enzyme in the bile acid synthesis pathway, is downregulated by taurocholate by way of negative feedback control at the level of gene transcription. The molecular basis of regulation of cholesterol 7α‐hydroxylase by other hydrophobic bile salts and under more physiological conditions is not known.

Dominique Deschamps, Virginie DeBeco, Cecile Fisch, Bernard Fromenty, Andre Guillouzo, Dominique Pessayre – 1 April 1994 – In an attempt to better understand the mechanisms for pseudoalcoholic liver lesions in human beings, we determined the effects of perhexiline on mitochondrial functions in mice and rats. A first series of studies suggested that protonated perhexiline entered mouse mitochondria along the mitochondrial membrane potential.

Raymond S. Koff – 1 April 1994

Luigi Pagliaro, Antonio Craxí, Calogero Cammaá, Fabio Tiné, Vito Di Marco, Oreste Lo Iacono, Piero Almasio – 1 April 1994 – To identify predictors of short‐term and sustained ALT normalization after interferon treatment in adult patients with chronic hepatitis C, we performed a metanalysis of individual patients' data, with construction and cross‐validation of a prediction rule, in 361 patients from two randomized trials.

Jean‐Michel Pawlotsky, Mustapha Ben Yahia, Chantal Andre, Marie‐Catherine Voisin, Liliane Intrator, Françoise Roudot‐Thoraval, Lionel Deforges, Christophe Duvoux, Elie‐Serge Zafrani, Jean Duval, Daniel Dhumeaux – 1 April 1994 – Hepatitis C virus–related chronic hepatitis may be associated with various immunological disorders.