Ultrasound diagnosis of digestive diseases. By F.S. Weill, 643 pp. New York: Springer‐Verlag, 1989. $120.00
Masako Wakabayashi, Arvin E. Robinson – 1 January 1991
Diagnosis of hepatitis delta virus infection
Manuel Rodriguez, Ana Martinez, Pedro Sala, Sabino Riestra, Adolfo Suárez, Luis Rodrigo, Maria Buti – 1 January 1991
Masthead
1 January 1991
Kupffer cell activation and endothelial cell damage after storage of rat livers: Effects of reperfusion
Jane C. Caldwell‐Kenkel, Robert T. Currin, Yukio Tanaka, Ronald G. Thurman, John J. Lemasters – 1 January 1991 – Reperfusion injury characterized by loss of endothelial cell viability occurs after cold ischemic storage of livers for transplantation surgery. Here, ultrastructural changes in stored rat livers were examined by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. With increasing times of storage in Euro‐Collins solution (4 to 24 hr) followed by 15 min of reperfusion at 37° C, a sequence of structural alterations was observed involving endothelial and Kupffer cells.
Hepatology: A textbook of liver diseases. 2nd ed. Edited by D. Zakim and T.D. Boyer, 1,568 pp. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., 1989. $225 per set
Raymond S. Koff, Nancy Bach – 1 January 1991
Hepatic histological findings after transplantation for chronic hepatitis B virus infection, including a unique pattern of fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis
Susan E. Davies, Bernard C. Portmann, John G. O′grady, Peter M. Aldis, Kanchan Chaggar, Graeme J. M. Alexander, Roger Williams – 1 January 1991 – Long‐term follow‐up of 27 patients with hepatitis B virus—related chronic liver disease treated by transplantation showed that 23 had hepatitis B virus recurrence. In 13 patients late changes in the grafts were similar to those described in other series: minor abnormalities in five cases, chronic active hepatitis in five cases and non‐hepatitis B virus—related graft dysfunction in three cases. Three patients had incomplete histological follow‐up.
New insights into canalicular organic anion secretion
Richard H. Moseley – 1 January 1991 – The effect of partial and complete dissipation of the membrane potential and partial depletion of cellular ATP content on the efflux of dinitrophenyl‐glutathione and oxidized glutathione was examined in hepatocytes isolated from normal and mutant (TR−) rats exhibiting defective organic anion transport.
Localization of epidermal growth factor receptor in hepatocyte nuclei
Ulrich Marti, Susan Jo Burwen, Alan Wells, Mary E. Barker, Sandra Huling, Anna M. Feren, Albert L.
Separation of periportal and perivenous rat hepatocytes by fluorescence‐activated cell sorting: Confirmation with colloidal gold as an exogenous marker
Ineke Braakman, Jan Keij, Machiel J. Hardonk, Dirk K. F. Meijer, Geny M. M. Groothuis – 1 January 1991 – Periportal and perivenous hepatocytes are known to display various functional differences. In this study we present a new method to separate periportal and perivenous cells: after selectively loading zone 1 or zone 3 with the fluorescent label acridine orange in an antegrade or retrograde perfusion, respectively, we separated the isolated hepatocytes on a fluorescence‐activated cell sorter.
Assay of hepatitis B virus DNA by polymerase chain reaction and its relationship to Pre‐S‐ and S‐encoded viral surface antigens
Guido Gerken, Patricia Paterlini, Michael Manns, Chantal Housset, Sylvie Terre, Hans‐Peter Dienes, Georg Hess, Wolfram H. Gerlich, Pierre Berthelot, Karl‐Hermann Meyer Zum Büschenfelde, Christian Brechot – 1 January 1991 – The polymerase chain reaction was evaluated as a diagnostic tool in 72 chronic hepatitis B virus carriers. Hepatitis B virus DNA was detectable in the serum of HBsAg—positive virus carriers using aliquots as small as 100 al. The detection limit for cloned hepatitis B virus DNA was 100 ag.