G. Ananda Rao, Edward C. Larkin – 1 March 1987

L. Frederick Fenster, Harold O. Conn – 1 March 1987 – A young man with chronic active hepatitis was heavily sedated during an attempted transjugular liver biopsy. The procedure was abandoned after 3 h and an immediate percutaneous liver biopsy was performed. This showed features of chronic active hepatitis but, in addition, groups of poly‐morphonuclear leukocytes in the parenchyma. These were similar to the operation associated neutrophils encountered in liver biopsies taken during the course of abdominal surgery.

David F. Ransohoff – 1 March 1987 – We investigated the natural history of cholelithiasis in 59 samples of stones from the gallbladder or common bile duct in 15 patients, using as a tracer for the timing of stone formation the 14C released into the environment during nuclear weapons testing. The ages of the stones were correlated with the dates of onset of symptoms and with other clinical data.

J. P. Colombo – 1 March 1987 – Portacaval shunt (PCS) operations were performed on male inbred SD rats. The activity of liver γ‐glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT) increased a few days after the operation and remained high after several months. However, the activity was only present in periportal areas of liver lobules and was mainly restricted to the endothelial lining cells of periportal blood vessels. Phenobarbital sodium (CAS: 57–03–7) administration did not change the distribution of GGT.

Keith S. Henley – 1 March 1987

Robert L. Carithers – 1 March 1987

B. A. Runyon – 1 March 1987

Syoji Kuroki, Erwin H. Mosbach, Richard J. Stenger, Bertram I. Cohen, Charles K. McSherry – 1 March 1987 – The metabolism and effect on biliary lipids of a new bile acid analog, 7‐methyl‐deoxycholic acid, were studied and compared with those of deoxycholic acid in the hamster. 14C‐Labeled 7‐methyl‐deoxycholic acid and deoxycholic acid were administered intravenously or intraduodenally to bile fistula hamsters at 1.0 or 4.0 μmoles per min·kg, and hepatic bile was analyzed for radioactive metabolites and biliary lipid outputs.

David G. Oelberg, William P. Dubinsky, Jeffrey W. Sackman, Leslie B. Wang, Eugene W. Adcock, Roger Lester – 1 March 1987 – At high concentrations, bile salts induce hemolysis by comicellization of lipid components of the cell membrane. However, bile salts are also associated with hemolysis at lower concentrations by mechanisms which have not been characterized.

Toshikazu Uchida, Koyu Suzuki, Mariko Esumi, Masayuki Arii, Masashi Oomura, Toshio Shikata – 1 January 1987 – A sequential study was performed to investigate the occurrence and localization of duck hepatitis B virus in the liver of domestic ducks utilizing the indirect immunoperoxidase method and electron microscopy. Seventeen ducklings were injected intravenously with duck hepatitis B virus‐positive serum within 24 hr after hatching and were subsequently sacrificed on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 27th and 44th day after injection.