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    Liver International: Volume 31, Issue 5

    589-748
    May 2011
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Editorials

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Treatment of chronic hepatitis B with telbivudine: wise hepatologists needed in hepatitis B endemic countries where treatment options are limited

Cihan Yurdaydin,  Ulus S. Akarca, 
  • Pages: 589-591
  • First Published: 06 February 2011
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Parkinsonism in patients with cirrhosis: coincidence or consequence?

Karin Weissenborn, 
  • Pages: 592-594
  • First Published: 15 February 2011

Review Articles

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Review of liver injury associated with dietary supplements

Felix Stickel,  Kerstin Kessebohm,  Rosemarie Weimann,  Helmut K. Seitz, 
  • Pages: 595-605
  • First Published: 11 January 2011
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Hepatitis C virus p7: molecular function and importance in hepatitis C virus life cycle and potential antiviral target

Saba Khaliq,  Shah Jahan,  Sajida Hassan, 
  • Pages: 606-617
  • First Published: 24 January 2011

Basic Studies

Kaerophyllin inhibits hepatic stellate cell activation by apoptotic bodies from hepatocytes

Ting-Fang Lee,  Yun-Lian Lin,  Yi-Tsau Huang, 
  • Pages: 618-629
  • First Published: 03 March 2011

Attenuated liver fibrosis after bile duct ligation and defective hepatic stellate cell activation in neural cell adhesion molecule knockout mice

Peter Rosenberg,  Mattias Sjöström,  Cecilia Söderberg,  Nils Kinnman,  Per Stål,  Rolf Hultcrantz, 
  • Pages: 630-641
  • First Published: 02 March 2011

Role of angiotensin-1 receptor blockade in cirrhotic liver resection

Ralf Bahde,  Linus Kebschull,  Sandra Stöppeler,  Andree Zibert,  Ramsi Siaj,  Jens P Hölzen,  Evgeny Minin,  Hartmut H.-J. Schmidt,  Hans-Ullrich Spiegel,  Daniel Palmes, 
  • Pages: 642-655
  • First Published: 09 March 2011

Induction of lipocalin-2 expression in acute and chronic experimental liver injury moderated by pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin-1β through nuclear factor-κB activation

Erawan Borkham-Kamphorst,  Falko Drews,  Ralf Weiskirchen, 
  • Pages: 656-665
  • First Published: 16 March 2011

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Unusual cause of biliary colic in a Swiss farmer

Joachim Mertens,  Achim Weber,  Beat Müllhaupt,  Andreas Geier, 
  • Page: 666
  • First Published: 04 October 2010

Clinical Studies

Efficacy of switching to telbivudine in chronic hepatitis B patients treated previously with lamivudine

Rifaat Safadi,  Qing Xie,  Yagang Chen,  You-Kuan Yin,  Lai Wei,  Seong Gyu Hwang,  Eli Zuckerman,  Ji-Dong Jia,  Patricia Lopez, 
  • Pages: 667-675
  • First Published: 29 October 2010

Efficacy and safety of prolonged 3-year telbivudine treatment in patients with chronic hepatitis B

Edward J. Gane,  Yuming Wang,  Yun-Fan Liaw,  JinLin Hou,  Satawat Thongsawat,  MoBin Wan,  Young M. Moon,  JiDong Jia,  You C. Chao,  Junqi Niu,  Nancy Leung,  Didier Samuel,  Chao Wei Hsu,  Weibin Bao,  Patricia Lopez,  Claudio Avila, 
  • Pages: 676-684
  • First Published: 16 March 2011

Increased risk of parkinsonism among patients with cirrhosis: a 7-year follow-up study

Jiunn-Horng Kang,  Ming-Chieh Tsai,  Ching-Chun Lin,  Hsiu-Li Lin,  Herng-Ching Lin, 
  • Pages: 685-691
  • First Published: 11 January 2011

Stage progression of small hepatocellular carcinoma after radical therapy: comparisons of radiofrequency ablation and surgery using the Markov model

Kenji Ikeda,  Masahiro Kobayashi,  Yusuke Kawamura,  Norihiro Imai,  Yuya Seko,  Miharu Hirakawa,  Tetsuya Hosaka,  Hitomi Sezaki,  Norio Akuta,  Satoshi Saitoh,  Fumitaka Suzuki,  Yoshiyuki Suzuki,  Yasuji Arase,  Hiromitsu Kumada, 
  • Pages: 692-699
  • First Published: 21 February 2011

Histopathological stages of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in type 2 diabetes: prevalences and correlated factors

Nathalie C. Leite,  Cristiane A. Villela-Nogueira,  Vera L. N. Pannain,  Adriana C. Bottino,  Guilherme F. M. Rezende,  Claudia R. L. Cardoso,  Gil F. Salles, 
  • Pages: 700-706
  • First Published: 20 February 2011

Regional variations in the concentrations of ketone bodies in cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy: a study in patients with TIPSS

Konstantinos J. Dabos,  Benjamin J. Houghton,  Emmanouil Pyleris,  Doris N. Redhead,  Peter C. Hayes,  Ian H. Salder,  John N. Plevris, 
  • Pages: 707-711
  • First Published: 06 March 2011

Validity of administrative data for the diagnosis of primary sclerosing cholangitis: a population-based study

Natalie A. Molodecky,  Robert P. Myers,  Herman W. Barkema,  Hude Quan,  Gilaad G. Kaplan, 
  • Pages: 712-720
  • First Published: 09 March 2011

Identification of T cell epitopes on soluble liver antigen in Chinese patients with auto-immune hepatitis

Yan Zhao,  Yonghong Zhang,  Yan-min Liu,  Yan Liu,  Xia Feng,  Hui-yu Liao,  Diego Vergani,  Yun Ma,  Hui-ping Yan, 
  • Pages: 721-729
  • First Published: 25 February 2011

Serum ferritin is a discriminant marker for both fibrosis and inflammation in histologically proven non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients

Pinelopi Manousou,  George Kalambokis,  Federica Grillo,  Jennifer Watkins,  Elias Xirouchakis,  Maria Pleguezuelo,  Gioacchino Leandro,  Vasiliki Arvaniti,  Giacomo Germani,  David Patch,  Vincenza Calvaruso,  Dimitri P. Mikhailidis,  Amar P. Dhillon,  Andrew K. Burroughs, 
  • Pages: 730-739
  • First Published: 06 March 2011

Case Report

Complete regression of locally advanced hepatocellular carcinoma induced by sorafenib allowing curative resection

Sabine Irtan,  Xavier Chopin-Laly,  Maxime Ronot,  Sandrine Faivre,  Valérie Paradis,  Jacques Belghiti, 
  • Pages: 740-743
  • First Published: 11 January 2011

Letters to the Editor

Demonstration of expression of hepatic stellate cell markers in cells from liver epithelial progenitor cells of rhesus monkey

Lifang Jin,  Xiangyu Guo,  Shaohui Ji,  Weizhi Ji,  Aijing Sun, 
  • Pages: 744-746
  • First Published: 01 February 2011

Cholestasis induced by Chinese herbal remedy Xia-Ku-Hua-Tan-Pian

Piotr Milkiewicz,  Jenny Heathcote, 
  • Pages: 746-747
  • First Published: 09 March 2011

Errata

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ERRATA

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  • First Published: 20 February 2011
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ERRATA

  • Page: 748
  • First Published: 22 March 2011