Congenital diseases of intrahepatic bile ducts: Variations on the theme “ductal plate malformation”
Valeer J. Desmet – 1 October 1992
Metabolic clearance rate of arginine vasopressin in patients with cirrhosi
José A. Solis‐Herruzo, Amelia Gonzalez‐Gamarra, Gregorio Castellano, Maria Teresa Muñoz‐yagüe – 1 October 1992 – Metabolic clearance rate and half‐time of arginine vasopressin were measured in 43 cirrhotic patients and 10 control subjects. Synthetic arginine vasopressin was infused intravenously at a rate of 500 pg/min/kg of body weight for 75 min.
Two distinct subtypes of hepatitis C virus defined by antibodies directed to the putative core protein
Atsuhiko Machida, Hitoshi Ohnuma, Fumio Tsuda, Eisuke Munekata, Takeshi Tanaka, Yoshihiro Akahane, Hiroaki Okamoto, Shunji Mishiro – 1 October 1992 – Four distinct genotypes of hepatitis C virus types I, II, III and IV have been identified by comparison of nucleotide sequences of isolates from different areas of the world. We examined the possibility that hepatitis C virus may have serologically definable subtypes. Enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay systems were prepared by use of two synthetic peptides deduced from the putative core protein of hepatitis C virus.
Gastrointestinal emergencies. Edited by I. T. Gilmore and R. Shields, 404 pp. London: W. B. Saunders Co., 1992. $87
I. David Shocket – 1 October 1992
Masthead
1 October 1992
Elsewhere reviews. Nitric oxide and hyperdynamic circulation in portal hypertension
Dieter Häussinger – 1 October 1992 – 1 The effects of inhibiting endogenous nitric oxide (NO) synthesis with NG‐monomethyl‐L‐arginine (L‐NMMA) on the systemic and splanchnic circulation have been investigated in rats with experimental chronic portal hypertension, anaesthetized with ketamine.
Guidelines for training in hepatology
Paul D. Berk – 1 October 1992
Monitoring of neurotransmitter amino acids by means of an indwelling cisterna magna catheter: A comparison of two rodent models of fulminant liver failure
Margaret S. Swain, Marcelle Bergeron, Robert Audet, Andres T. Bleiz, Roger F. Butterworth – 1 October 1992 – Alterations of brain and cerebrospinal fluid amino acids have consistently been described in human and experimental fulminant liver failure.
Antimitochondrial antibodies in kindreds of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis: Antimitochondrial antibodies are unique to clinical disease and are absent in asymptomatic family members
Stephen H. Caldwell, Patrick S. C. Leung, James R. Spivey, Thomas Prindiville, Maria de Medina, Theparat Saicheur, Merrill Rowley, K. Rajender Reddy, Ross Coppel, Lennox J. Jeffers, Ian R. MacKay, Eugene R. Schiff, M. Eric Gershwin – 1 October 1992 – The 2‐oxo‐acid dehydrogenase family of enzymes have been identified as the major mitochondrial autoantigens of primary biliary cirrhosis.
Hepatitis C virus RNA and antibody response in the clinical course of acute hepatitis C virus infection
Massimo Puoti, Antonella Zonaro, Antonella Ravaggi, Maria Grazia Marin, Filippo Castelnuovo, Elisabetta Cariani – 1 October 1992 – Hepatitis C virus RNA, anti—hepatitis C virus immune response and biochemical markers of liver injury were investigated in 17 patients with acute non‐A, non‐B hepatitis. At the first observation, 1 to 3 wk from the clinical onset, all patients had hepatitis C virus RNA in their serum, and most (15 of 17) were positive for second‐generation anti—hepatitis C virus enzyme immunoassay. Follow‐up serum samples were available for 10 patients.