Kenneth B. Camacho, Carol A. Casey, Robert L. Wiegert, Michael F. Sorrell, Dean J. Tuma – 1 April 1993 – The time‐course effects of long‐term ethanol administration on fluid‐phase endocytosis were studied in isolated rat hepatocytes. Rats were pair‐fed an ethanol‐supplemented liquid diet or an isocaloric control diet for 3 days, 1 wk, 2 wk or 5 wk. Hepatocytes were isolated and incubated at 37° C with various concentrations of the fluid‐phase marker Lucifer yellow.‐Net internalization of the marker dye was determined.

Nezam H. Afdhal, Dahai Gong, Niu Niu, Bradley Turner, J. Thomas Lamont, Gwynneth D. Offner – 1 April 1993 – The aims of this study were to examine the effect of exogenous prostaglandin on mucin secretion and to determine the role of nonmucin glycoproteins on gallstone formation in the prairie dog model of cholesterol cholelithiasis.

Katrina M. Dipple, Mona Qulali, Ruth Ann Ross, David W. Crabb – 1 April 1993 – We studied the effect of thyroxine on alcohol dehydrogenase activity, immunoreactive protein levels and messenger RNA levels in the livers of thyroidectomized and sham‐operated male rats. Effects on kidney alcohol dehydrogenase activity were also examined. Shamoperated rats injected with 100 μg thyroxine/kg/day, which induced hyperthyroidism, showed a 30% decrease in liver and a 40% decrease in kidney alcohol dehydrogenase activity compared with sham‐operated rats injected with vehicle.

Claudio Tiribelli, J. Donald Ostrow – 1 April 1993

Raymond S. Koff – 1 April 1993

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Luis Sanchez‐Urdazpal, Gregory J. Gores, Ellen M. Ward, Timothy P. Maus, Erwin G. Buckel, Jeffrey L. Steers, Russell H. Wiesner, Ruud A. F. Krom – 1 April 1993 – The clinical significance and outcome of nonanastomotic strictures and dilatations involving only the biliary tree of the graft with a radiological appearance of biliary ischemia is unknown. Therefore we analyzed the grafts of 128 patients to evaluate the biochemical, radiological and histological features that prompted the diagnosis of ischemic‐type biliary stricture and the clinical outcome of this complication.

Anna S. F. Lok, Michael A. Gerber – 1 April 1993

Berend Mets, Rosemary Hickman, Rosemary Allin, Jean van Dyk, Zoe Lotz – 1 April 1993 – The metabolism of lidocaine to monoethylglycinexylidide has been found useful as an indicator of liver function in association with liver transplantation. It has been postulated that this is due to the common effect of hypoxic damage on liver function and lidocaine metabolism. The effects of hypoxia on the elimination of lidocaine and the formation of mono‐ethylglycinexylidide and on indexes of liver function were investigated with the isolated perfused pig liver preparation.

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