Wouter H. Lamers – 1 August 1990 – Hepatocyte age was estimated from its distance from the portal tract. We have previously shown that hepatocytes are formed adjacent to the portal tract and stream toward the terminal hepatic vein, advancing at a daily velocity of 2 μm. Thus, the farther a cell from the portal tract, the older it is. This relationship between cell age and distance served here for the study of age‐dependent changes in the hepatocyte, particularly nuclear area and DNA content.

Masao Omata – 1 August 1990

Per O. Seglen, Gunnar Sæter, Per E. Schwarze – 1 August 1990 – Cell suspensions or tissue fragments from primary hepatocellular carcinomas and benign neoplastic nodules, induced by treating rats with chemical carcinogens, were transplanted by intraportal injection or subcapsular implantation in the livers of syngeneic host rats. Both nodule and carcinoma transplants produced high numbers of hepatocellular carcinomas in the hosts 2 to 5 mo after transplantation.

Françoise Lunel, Beatrice Descamps‐Latscha, Diane Descamps, Yves Le Charpentier, Patrick Grippon, Dominique Valla, Jean‐François Cadranel, Johannes Trum, Pierre Opolon – 1 August 1990 – Recent reports suggest that ethanol metabolism leads to reactive oxygen intermediates that may be responsible for the lesions observed in alcoholic hepatitis. This study investigated the production of reactive oxygen intermediates in peripheral blood phagocytes of patients with alcoholic hepatitis and attempts to evaluate its predictive value.

C. Th. B. M. van Deursen, M. M. F. Fickers, P. J. Brombacher, Mark Bassett – 1 July 1990

Georg Wensing, Ramzi Sabra, Robert A. Branch – 1 July 1990 – The onset of sodium retention in the phenobarbital and carbon tetrachloride model of cirrhosis in the rat is preceded by a linear decrease in hepatic function as measured by the aminopyrine breath test. Sodium retention occurs when liver function decreases below a critical threshold. Changes in systemic hemodynamics may be responsible for initiating the development of renal sodium retention.

1 July 1990

1 July 1990

Jonathan A. Leighton, Thomas E. Whigham – 1 July 1990

Bipin K. Sharma, Bruce R. Bacon, Robert S. Britton, Chanho H. Park, Christopher J. Magiera, Rosemary O'Neill, Nicholas Dalton, Patricia Smanik, Theodore Speroff – 1 July 1990 – These experiments were performed to characterize the relationship between lipid peroxidation and hepatocyte viability in iron overload. Hepatocytes were isolated from rats with chronic dietary iron overload and the effects of in vitro iron chelation on lipid peroxidation, cell viability and ultrastructure were studied over a 4‐hr incubation period.