Program of annual meeting
1 October 1991
ALF board of directors
1 October 1991
Hepatorenal reflex regulating kidney function
Florian Lang, Edda Tschernko, Eva Schulze, Irina Öttl, Markus Ritter, Harald Völkl, Christian Hallbrucker, Dieter Häussinger – 1 October 1991 – In anesthetized male rats, infusion of glutamine (2 μmol/min) into the superior mesenteric vein at a rate known to induce liver cell swelling leads to marked decreases in renal glomerular filtration rate, renal para‐aminohippurate clearance and urinary flow rate. Glutamine infused at identical rates into the jugular vein does not elicit any of these effects. The effect of glutamine is mimicked by serine but not by glutamate.
Masthead
1 October 1991
Inborn errors of metabolism. Edited by J. Schaub, F. Van Hoof and H.L. Vis, 298 pp. New York: Raven Press, 1991. $62
Raymond S. Koff – 1 October 1991
Current concepts in cell‐mediated hepatic allograft rejection leading to ductopenia and liver failure
Russell H. Wiesner, Jurgen Ludwig, Bart van Hoek, Ruud A. F. Krom – 1 October 1991
Superoxide is involved in the pathogenesis of paraquat‐induced injury in cultured rat liver slices
Hitoshi Togashi, Haruhide Shinzawa, Hiroto Wakabayashi, Toichiro Nakamura, Huang Yong, Nobuo Yamada, Katsuaki Ukai, Yoshimi Okuyama, Tsuneo Takahashi, Makoto Ishikawa – 1 October 1991 – We examined whether superoxide is a factor responsible for paraquat‐induced liver injury in terms of superoxide dismutase using cultured rat liver slices exposed to various concentrations of paraquat. The degree of liver injury was assessed by measurement of percentage of lactate dehydrogenase leakage into the medium and lipid hydroperoxides in the liver slices and by direct histopathological observation.