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    Hepatology: Volume 29, Issue 2

    307-610, 610a-616, 616a-616
    February 1999
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Acute carbon tetrachloride feeding selectively damages large, but not small, cholangiocytes from normal rat liver

Gene D. LeSage,  Antonio Benedetti,  Shannon Glaser,  Luca Marucci,  Ziga Tretjak,  Alessandra Caligiuri,  Rebecca Rodgers,  Jo Lynne Phinizy,  Leonardo Baiocchi,  Heather Francis,  John Lasater,  Laura Ugili,  Gianfranco Alpini Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 307-319
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Differences in the metabolism and disposition of ursodeoxycholic acid and of its taurine-conjugated species in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis

Pietro Invernizzi,  Kenneth D. Setchell,  Andrea Crosignani,  Pier Maria Battezzati,  Alberto Larghi,  Nancy C. O'Connell,  Mauro Podda, 
  • Pages: 320-327
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Association of diabetes mellitus and chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Andrew L. Mason,  Johnson Y. Lau,  Nicole Hoang,  KePing Qian,  Graeme J. Alexander,  Lizhe Xu,  Linsheng Guo,  Sheraj Jacob,  Fredric G. Regenstein,  Robert Zimmerman,  James E. Everhart,  Clive Wasserfall,  Noel K. Maclaren,  Robert P. Perrillo, 
  • Pages: 328-333
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Effect of losartan, an Angiotensin II receptor antagonist, on portal pressure in cirrhosis

Arved Winfried Schneider,  Johann Friedrich Kalk,  Christian Peter Klein, 
  • Pages: 334-339
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Brain histamine levels and neocortical slow-wave activity in rats with portacaval anastomosis

Violina Lozeva,  Antti Valjakka,  Eeva Anttila,  Ewen MacDonald,  Mikko Hippeläinen,  Leena Tuomisto, 
  • Pages: 340-346
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Hepatic blood flow and splanchnic oxygen consumption in patients with liver failure. Effect of high-volume plasmapheresis

Jens Otto Clemmesen,  Alexander L. Gerbes,  Veit Gülberg,  Bent Adel Hansen,  Fin Stolze Larsen,  Claus Skak,  Niels Tygstrup,  Peter Ott, 
  • Pages: 347-355
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Quality of life before and after liver transplantation for cholestatic liver disease

Cynthia R. Gross 308 Harvard Street S.E.,  Michael Malinchoc,  W. Ray Kim,  Roger W. Evans,  Russell H. Wiesner,  Janice L. Petz,  Jeffrey S. Crippin,  Goran B. Klintmalm,  Marlon F. Levy,  Paola Ricci,  Terry M. Therneau,  E. Rolland Dickson, 
  • Pages: 356-364
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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A model to predict survival following liver retransplantation

Hugo R. Rosen,  Joseph P. Madden,  Paul Martin, 
  • Pages: 365-370
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Altered Gq/G11 guanine nucleotide regulatory protein expression in a rat model of hepatocellular carcinoma: Role in mitogenesis

Iain H. McKillop,  C. Max Schmidt,  Paul A. Cahill,  James V. Sitzmann, 
  • Pages: 371-378
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Reduced C-terminal Src kinase (Csk) activities in hepatocellular carcinoma

Tsutomu Masaki,  Masato Okada,  Masaki Tokuda,  Yasushi Shiratori M.D., Ph.D.,  Osamu Hatase,  Mutsunori Shirai,  Mikio Nishioka,  Masao Omata, 
  • Pages: 379-384
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Activation of Cdk4 and Cdk2 during rat liver regeneration is associated with intranuclear rearrangements of cyclin-Cdk complexes

Montserrat Jaumot,  Josep-Maria Estanyol,  Joan Serratosa,  Neus Agell,  Oriol Bachs, 
  • Pages: 385-395
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor promotes colonization, vascularization, and growth of transplanted hepatic tissues in the mouse

Itsuki Ajioka,  Toshihiro Akaike,  Yoshifumi Watanabe Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 396-402
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Mitosis and apoptosis in the liver of interleukin-6–deficient mice after partial hepatectomy

Toshiki Sakamoto,  Zejin Liu,  Noriko Murase,  Tsukasa Ezure,  Shigeki Yokomuro,  Valerie Poli,  Anthony J. Demetris M.D., 
  • Pages: 403-411
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Enhanced Gi-protein–mediated mitogenesis following chronic ethanol exposure in a rat model of experimental hepatocellular carcinoma

Iain H. McKillop,  Nilesh Vyas,  C. Max Schmidt,  Paul A. Cahill,  James V. Sitzmann, 
  • Pages: 412-420
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase in endotoxemic rat hepatocytes is dependent on the cellular glutathione status

Thera A. Vos,  Harry van Goor,  Leonore Tuyt,  Alie de Jager-Krikken,  Ron Leuvenink,  Folkert Kuipers,  Peter L. Jansen,  Han Moshage, 
  • Pages: 421-426
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Hypoxic hepatitis caused by acute exacerbation of chronic respiratory failure: A case-controlled, hemodynamic study of 17 consecutive cases

Jean Henrion,  Philippe Minette,  Lucien Colin,  Michael Schapira,  Andre Delannoy,  Francis R. Heller, 
  • Pages: 427-433
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Effects of fibrillar C-terminal fragment of cleaved α1-antitrypsin on cholesterol homeostasis in HepG2 cells

Sabina Janciauskiene,  Stefan Lindgren, 
  • Pages: 434-442
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Glutathione peroxidase–deficient mice are more susceptible to neutrophil-mediated hepatic parenchymal cell injury during endotoxemia: importance of an intracellular oxidant stress

Hartmut Jaeschke,  Ye-Shih Ho,  Michael A. Fisher,  Judy A. Lawson,  Anwar Farhood, 
  • Pages: 443-450
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Repeat exposure to incremental doses of acetaminophen provides protection against acetaminophen-induced lethality in mice: An explanation for high acetaminophen dosage in humans without hepatic injury

Rass M. Shayiq Ph.D.,  Dean W. Roberts,  Kenneth Rothstein,  John E. Snawder,  Wayne Benson,  Xiang Ma,  Martin Black, 
  • Pages: 451-463
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Nitric oxide reduces nontransferrin-bound iron transport in HepG2 cells

Donatella Barisani,  Gaetano Cairo,  Enrico Ginelli,  Anna Marozzi,  Dario Conte, 
  • Pages: 464-470
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Tauroursodeoxycholate and S-adenosyl-L-methionine exert an additive ameliorating effect on taurolithocholate-induced cholestasis: A study in isolated rat hepatocyte couplets

Piotr Milkiewicz,  Charles O. Mills,  Marcelo G. Roma,  Jalal Ahmed-Choudhury,  Elwyn Elias,  Roger Coleman, 
  • Pages: 471-476
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Modulation of protein kinase C by taurolithocholic acid in isolated rat hepatocytes

Ulrich Beuers M.D.,  Irmelin Probst,  Carol Soroka,  James L. Boyer,  Gerd-A. Kullak-Ublick,  Gustav Paumgartner, 
  • Pages: 477-482
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Hepatic sequestration and modulation of the canalicular transport of the organic cation, daunorubicin, in the rat

Julia H. Hayes,  Carol J. Soroka,  Laura Rios-Velez,  James L. Boyer, 
  • Pages: 483-493
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Three-dimensional reconstruction of parenchymal units in the liver of the rat

Harald F. Teutsch,  Dirk Schuerfeld,  Elke Groezinger, 
  • Pages: 494-505
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Recurrent familial intrahepatic cholestasis in the faeroe islands. phenotypic heterogeneity but genetic homogeneity

Niels Tygstrup,  Bjarni Á. Steig,  Jenneke A. Juijn,  Laura N. Bull,  Roderick H. Houwen, 
  • Pages: 506-508
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Entry and integration of transplanted hepatocytes in rat liver plates occur by disruption of hepatic sinusoidal endothelium

Sanjeev Gupta,  Pankaj Rajvanshi,  Rana Sokhi,  Sanjeev Slehria,  Ana Yam,  Andrew Kerr,  Phyllis M. Novikoff, 
  • Pages: 509-519
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Class VI intermediate filament protein nestin is induced during activation of rat hepatic stellate cells

Toshiro Niki,  Milos Pekny,  Karine Hellemans,  Pieter De Bleser,  Kit Van Den Berg,  Freya Vaeyens,  Erik Quartier,  Frans Schuit,  Albert Geerts, 
  • Pages: 520-527
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Comparative evaluation of hepatitis C virus RNA quantitation by branched DNA, NASBA, and monitor assays

Françoise Lunel,  Pascale Cresta,  Damien Vitour,  Christopher Payan,  Bruno Dumont,  Lionel Frangeul,  Dorothée Reboul,  Christine Brault,  Jean-Charles Piette,  Jean-Marie Huraux, 
  • Pages: 528-535
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Detection of genomic- and minus-strand of hepatitis C virus RNA in the liver of chronic hepatitis C patients by strand-specific semiquantitative reversetranscriptase polymerase chain reaction

Francesco Negro M.D.,  Krzysztof Krawczynski,  Rafael Quadri,  Laura Rubbia-Brandt,  Mario Mondelli,  Jean-Pierre Zarski,  Antoine Hadengue, 
  • Pages: 536-542
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Detection of occult low-grade B-cell non-hodgkin's lymphoma in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection and mixed cryoglobulinemia

Imran Rasul,  Frances A. Shepherd,  Suzanne Kamel-Reid,  Mell Krajden,  Dominic Pantalony,  E. Jenny Heathcote, 
  • Pages: 543-547
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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An economic analysis of different strategies of immunization against hepatitis a virus in developed countries

Ananya Das M.D., 
  • Pages: 548-552
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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The hepatitis B virus–trimera mouse: A model for human HBV infection and evaluation of anti-HBV therapeutic agents

Ehud Ilan,  Tatjana Burakova,  Shlomo Dagan Ph.D., XTL Biopharmaceuticals Ltd.,  Ofer Nussbaum,  Ido Lubin,  Rachel Eren,  Ofer Ben-Moshe,  Joseph Arazi,  Shoshana Berr,  Lewis Neville,  Leonard Yuen,  Tarek S. Mansour,  John Gillard,  Ahamed Eid,  Oded Jurim,  Daniel Shouval,  Yair Reisner,  Eithan Galun, 
  • Pages: 553-562
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Acute liver injury following infection with a cytopathic strain of duck hepatitis B virus

Raymond J. Lenhoff,  Carolyn A. Luscombe,  Jesse Summers Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 563-571
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Clinical and histological outcome after hepatitis B e antigen to antibody seroconversion in children with chronic hepatitis B

Mercedes Ruiz-Moreno,  Manuela Otero,  Antonio Millán,  Inmaculada Castillo,  María Cabrerizo,  F. Javier Jiménez,  Horacio Oliva,  Santiago Ramón y Cajal,  Vicente Carreño M.D., 
  • Pages: 572-575
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Transfection of a rat hepatoma cell line with a construct expressing human liver annexin V confers susceptibility to hepatitis B virus infection

Zuo Jiong Gong,  Sandra De Meyer,  Jos van Pelt,  Kurt Hertogs,  Erik Depla,  Ann Soumillion,  Johan Fevery,  Sing-Hiem Yap, 
  • Pages: 576-584
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Hepatitis C virus RNA profiles in chronically infected individuals: Do they relate to disease activity?

Patrizia Pontisso M.D.,  Giorgio Bellati,  Maurizia Brunetto,  Liliana Chemello,  Guido Colloredo,  Rosellina Di Stefano,  Massimo Nicoletti,  Maria Grazia Rumi,  Maria Grazia Ruvoletto,  Roberta Soffredini,  Lilli Mario Valenza,  Giuseppe Colucci, 
  • Pages: 585-589
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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A prospective, community-based evaluation of liver enzymes in individuals with hepatitis C after drug use

Thomas V. Inglesby,  Rudra Rai,  Jacquie Astemborski,  Leslie Gruskin,  Kenrad E. Nelson,  David Vlahov,  David L. Thomas, 
  • Pages: 590-596
  • First Published: 30 December 2003

Rapid Communication

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CCAAT/enhancer binding protein α (C/EBPα) is an important mediator of mouse C/EBPβ protein isoform production

Bonnie L. Burgess-Beusse,  Nikolai A. Timchenko,  Gretchen J. Darlington Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 597-601
  • First Published: 30 December 2003

Editorials

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Nestin in the liver—lessons from the brain

Albee Messing V.M.D., Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 602-603
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Diabetes mellitus and chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Stephanos Hadziyannis M.D.,  Basil Karamanos, 
  • Pages: 604-605
  • First Published: 30 December 2003

Hepatology Elsewhere

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Three for the price of one knockout—a mouse model of a congenital peroxisomal disorder, steatohepatitis, and Hepatocarcinogenesis

Nathan M. Bass, 
  • Pages: 606-608
  • First Published: 30 December 2003

Correspondence

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Timing of transplantation for primary biliary cirrhosis

Piotr Krzeski,  Adrzej Habior, 
  • Pages: 609-610
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Cost-effectiveness of ultrasonography in percutaneous liver biopsy

Coleman I. Smith,  Rajender Reddy, 
  • Page: 610
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Global warming and therapeutic intervention for hepatitis B and C virus infection

Subhash C. Arya, 
  • Pages: 610a-611
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Detection of cholangiocarcinoma in primary sclerosing cholangitis by positron emission tomography

Frieder Berr,  Marcus Wiedmann,  Joachim Mössner,  Andrea Tannapfel,  Frank Schmidt, 
  • Pages: 611-613
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Hepatotoxicity following desflurane anesthesia

Thomas M. Berghaus,  Andreas Baron,  Andreas Geier,  Rolf Lamerz,  Gustav Paumgartner,  Peter Conzen, 
  • Pages: 613-614
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Lack of evidence for distinct hepatitis C virus variants associated with cryoglobulin

Donald B. Smith, 
  • Pages: 614-615
  • First Published: 30 December 2003

Articles

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Correction

  • Page: 616
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Correction

  • Pages: 616a-616
  • First Published: 30 December 2003