A. Mieke Jonker, Freke W. J. Dijkhuis, Adriana Boes, Machiel J. Hardonk, Joris Grond – 1 March 1992 – A single injection of D‐galactosamine hydrochloride induces acute self‐limiting liver disease in rats that morphologically resembles drug‐induced hepatitis in human beings. In this immunohistochemical study we examined the localization and expression of the hepatic extracellular matrix components fibronectin, laminin, collagen type I, collagen type III and collagen type IV and of the cell surface receptors (integrins) for fibronectin and laminin.

Moritaka Goto, Sunao Kawano, Harumasa Yoshihara, Yoshiyuki Takei, Taizo Hijioka, Hiroyuki Fukui, Takashi Matsunaga, Masahide Oshita, Toru Kashiwagi, Hideyuki Fusamoto, Takenobu Kamada, Nobuhiro Sato – 1 March 1992 – The purpose of this study was to determine whether hepatic tissue oxygenation after ischemia‐reperfusion procedures is an indicator for later liver injury. Partial ischemia in the liver was induced by ligating the left pedicles. Rats were divided into two groups according to duration of ischemia: group A (30‐min ischemia) and group B (60–min ischemia).

Grace H. Elta, Frederic E. Eckhauser – 1 March 1992 – Objective. – To determine the effectiveness of the Palmaz balloon expandable stent for the creation of a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt. The device is designed to achieve portal decompression in patients with variceal hemorrhage secondary to portal hypertension.

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Thomas Zimmermann, Andreas Gardemann, Georg Machnik, Rolf Dargel, Kurt Jungermann – 1 March 1992 – Thioacetamide‐induced rat cirrhosis was characterized by single‐cell necroses, fibrosis, nodular parenchyma, decrease in parenchymal volume density and an increase in liver weight per body weight so that the total amount of parenchyma was not altered. The glycogen content was normal, and signs of decompensation were not found.

Scott L. Friedman – 1 March 1992

M. Victoria Marx, David Williams – 1 March 1992

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Tohru Katayama, Toshio Mazda, Shu Kikuchi, Shizuko Harada, Yoshiharu Matsuura, Joe Chiba, Hiroyoshi Ohba, Izumu Saito, Tatsuo Miyamura – 1 March 1992 – We examined sequential serum samples from 12 patients with well‐characterized posttransfusion non‐A, non‐B hepatitis who had an acute, resolving self‐limited type of clinical course for the presence of antibody to the hepatitis C virus nucleocapsid (core) protein (p22) expressed by a recombinant baculovirus.

Nickolay D. Belyaev, Vladimir G. Budker, Ludmila V. Deriy, Irina A. Smolenskaya, Vladimir M. Subbotin – 1 March 1992 – During experimental CCl4 cirrhosis, an increase of membrane‐associated factor stimulating 3T3 cell proliferation in vitro was observed. This stimulator is a 150‐kD protein similar to one previously described. In situ perfusion released growth stimulatory activity, suggesting a peripheral plasma membrane protein localizing on basolateral surfaces. The activity increased with increasing number of CCl4 treatments, reaching a maximum at the 14th intoxication.