Sugantha Govindarajan – 1 April 1990 – The clinical course, changes in liver function tests and the behaviour of viral markers over the course of time have been examined in 45 patients with acute hepatitis B and 14 patients with acute hepatitis caused by B and D viruses coinfection. There were no significant differences, either in the clinical course or in the liver function tests, in the two groups.

Masaki Matsuoka, Hidekazu Tsukamoto – 1 April 1990 – Transforming growth factor β has a specific stimulatory effect on collagen formation by hepatic lipocytes, a cell type believed to be a major source of extracellular matrices in the liver. Because monocytes and macrophages are the known sources of transforming growth factor β, Kupffer cells‐resident macrophages in the liver‐may also play an important role in liver fibrogenesis by releasing this cytokine and stimulating lipocyte collagen production.

Geoffrey W. McCaughan, Julie E. Wickson, Paul F. Creswick, Mark D. Gorrell – 1 April 1990 – This paper describes the tissue distribution, purification and N‐terminal amino acid sequence of the bile canalicular cell surface molecule dipeptidyl peptidase IV. Immunoperoxidase staining of cryostat sections of rat liver with a monoclonal antibody, Medical Research Council OX‐61, indicated specific binding to hepatocyte bile canalicular domains and brush borders of bile ducts.

1 April 1990

Oscar Lebwohl – 1 April 1990

Albert K. Groen, Christa Noordam, Jan A. G. Drapers, Peter Egbers, Peter L. M. Jansen, Guido N. J. Tytgat – 1 April 1990 – Gallbladder bile contains nucleation‐promoting activity that binds to concanavalin A. The activity was found in gallbladder bile from cholesterol gallstone patients but also in gallbladder bile from patients without stones and patients with pigment stones. Bile from patients with multiple cholesterol gallstones contained high concanavalin A‐binding nucleation‐promoting activity.

R. Thomas Holzbach – 1 April 1990

Arieh Bomzon, Irka Monies‐Chass, Leonard Kamenetz, Laurence Blendis – 1 April 1990 – Cardiovascular homeostasis is compromised under general anesthesia and in jaundice. Because surgery is often performed on jaundiced patients, it is not altogether surprising that the incidence of perioperative complications is higher in such patients than in nonjaundiced ones. In this study we assessed the potential synergistic effects of anesthesia and jaundice on cardiovascular responsiveness of chronic bile‐ductligated dogs.

Jacques Devière, Jean Content, Chantal Denys, Paul Vandenbussche, Liliane Schandene, Joseph Wybran, Etienne Dupont – 1 April 1990 – The objective of this study was to analyze monokine production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with alcoholic cirrhosis. The capacity of peripheral blood mononuclear cells and purified monocytes from these patients to produce tumor necrosis factor α, interleukin 1β, and interleukin 6 was investigated.

Nigel R. Swanson, William D. Reed, Linda J. Yarred, Keith B. Shilkin, Richard A. Joske – 1 April 1990 – The fine specificity of autoantibodies to human hepatocyte plasma membranes in autoimmune chronic active hepatitis was determined by one‐dimensional immunoblotting. Sera from 12 patients with “classical” autoimmune chronic active hepatitis contained autoantibodies recognizing many human hepatocyte plasma membrane polypeptides in the 15 to 220 kD range.