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    Hepatology: Volume 31, Issue 1

    1-248
    January 2000
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Editor's Report

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Brave new millennium

D. Montgomery Bissell M.D., 
  • Pages: 1-2
  • First Published: 30 December 2003

Concise Review

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The heme oxygenase–carbon monoxide system: u regulator of hepatobiliary function

Makoto Suematsu M.D., Ph.D.,,  Yuzuru Ishimura, 
  • Pages: 3-6
  • First Published: 30 December 2003

Original Article

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Cholangiocarcinoma in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis: A multicenter case-control study

Naga Chalasani M.D.,  Arthur Baluyut,  Ayaaz Ismail,  Atif Zaman,  Gagan Sood,  Reem Ghalib,  T. M. McCashland,  K. Rajender Reddy,  Xaralambos Zervos,  Mann A. Anbari,  Helena Hoen, 
  • Pages: 7-11
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Clinicopathologic features of the intraductal growth type of peripheral cholangiocarcinoma

Kyung-Suk Suh,  Hye Rin Roh,  Young Taeg Koh,  Kuhn Uk Lee,  Yong-Hyun Park,  Sun-Whe Kim M.D., 
  • Pages: 12-17
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Apolipoprotein E genotype and the risk of gallbladder disease in pregnancy

Cynthia W. Ko,  Shirley A.A. Beresford,  Beth Alderman,  Gail P. Jarvik,  Scott J. Schulte,  Byron Calhoun,  Amy M. Tsuchida,  Thomas D. Koepsell,  Sum P. Lee, 
  • Pages: 18-23
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Evidence for a locally driven mucosal response and the presence of mitochondrial antigens in saliva in primary biliary cirrhosis

Sandra Reynoso-Paz,  Patrick S.C. Leung,  Judy Van de Water,  Atsushi Tanaka,  Santiago Munoz,  Nathan Bass,  Keith Lindor,  Paul J. Donald,  Ross L. Coppel,  Aftab A. Ansari,  M. Eric Gershwin M.D., 
  • Pages: 24-29
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Partial pressure of ammonia versus ammonia in hepatic encephalopathy

Ludwig Kramer M.D.,  Barbara Tribl,  Alexandra Gendo,  Christian Zauner,  Barbara Schneider,  Peter Ferenci,  Christian Madl, 
  • Pages: 30-34
  • First Published: 30 December 2003

Chronic Liver Disease

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Failure of regeneration of the steatotic rat liver: disruption at two different levels in the regeneration pathway

Markus Selzner,  Pierre-Alain Clavien M.D., Ph.D., FACS, 
  • Pages: 35-42
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Effect of propranolol on the factors promoting bacterial translocation in cirrhotic rats with ascites

María Pérez-Paramo,  Javier Muñoz,  Agustín Albillos M.D.,  Isabel Freile,  Francisca Portero,  Martín Santos,  José Ortiz-Berrocal, 
  • Pages: 43-48
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) gene polymorphisms and susceptibility to type 1 autoimmune hepatitis

Kosh Agarwal,  Albert J. Czaja,  David E. Jones,  Peter T. Donaldson Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 49-53
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Randomized controlled trial of interferon treatment for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

Josep M. Llovet,  Margarita Sala,  Lluís Castells,  Yanette Suarez,  Ramon Vilana,  Lluís Bianchi,  Carmen Ayuso,  Víctor Vargas,  Joan Rodés,  Jordi Bruix M.D., 
  • Pages: 54-58
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Centrosome abnormalities in human carcinomas of the gallbladder and intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile ducts

Kung-Kai Kuo,  Norihiro Sato,  Kazuhiro Mizumoto M.D.,  Naoki Maehara,  Hirotoshi Yonemasu,  Chen-Guo Ker,  Pai-Ching Sheen,  Masao Tanaka, 
  • Pages: 59-64
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Heterogeneity of growth potential of adult rat hepatocytes in vitro

Chise Tateno,  Kaori Takai-Kajihara,  Chihiro Yamasaki,  Hajime Sato,  Katsutoshi Yoshizato, 
  • Pages: 65-74
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Expression and activation of pro-MMP-2 and pro-MMP-9 during rat liver regeneration

Tae-Hyoung Kim,  Wendy M. Mars,  Donna B. Stolz,  George K. Michalopoulos M.D., 
  • Pages: 75-82
  • First Published: 30 December 2003

Inflammation, Cytokines, And Fibrosis

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Sublobular veins as the main site of lymphocyte adhesion/transmigration and adhesion molecule expression in the porto-sinusoidal-hepatic venous system during concanavalin A–induced hepatitis in mice

Dr. Hiroyasu Morikawa,  Kazutaka Hachiya,  Hidekazu Mizuhara,  Hiromi Fujiwara,  Shuhei Nishiguchi,  Susumu Shiomi,  Tetsuo Kuroki,  Kenji Kaneda, 
  • Pages: 83-94
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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The role of phosphatidic acid in platelet-derived growth factor–induced proliferation of rat hepatic stellate cells

Helen L. Reeves,  Mike G. Thompson,  Clare L. Dack,  Alastair D. Burt,  Christopher P. Day Ph.D., M.D., 
  • Pages: 95-100
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ transcriptional regulation is involved in platelet-derived growth factor–induced proliferation of human hepatic stellate cells

Andrea Galli,  David Crabb,  Donna Price,  Elisabetta Ceni,  Renata Salzano,  Calogero Surrenti,  Alessandro Casini, 
  • Pages: 101-108
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Hydrogen peroxide: A link between acetaldehyde-elicited α1(i) collagen gene up-regulation and oxidative stress in mouse hepatic stellate cells

Patricia Greenwel,  José-Alfredo Domínguez-Rosales,  Gurjeet Mavi,  A. M. Rivas-Estilla,  Marcos Rojkind M.D., Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 109-116
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Estrogen is involved in early alcohol-induced liver injury in a rat enteral feeding model

Ming Yin,  Kenichi Ikejima,  Michael D. Wheeler,  Blair U. Bradford,  Vitor Seabra,  Donald T. Forman,  Nobuhiro Sato,  Ronald G. Thurman, 
  • Pages: 117-123
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Endotoxin-stimulated macrophages decrease bile acid uptake in WIF-B cells, a rat hepatoma hybrid cell line

Ekkehard Sturm,  Tracy L. Zimmerman,  Aleta R. Crawford,  Stanislav I. Svetlov,  Pazhani Sundaram,  J. L. Ferrara,  Saul J. Karpen,  James M. Crawford M.D., Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 124-130
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Tyrosine phosphorylation of focal adhesion kinase by PDGF is dependent on Ras in human hepatic stellate cells

Vinicio Carloni M.D., Ph.D.,  Massimo Pinzani,  Sabrina Giusti,  Roberto G. Romanelli,  Maurizio Parola,  Giorgio Bellomo,  Paola Failli,  Andrew D. Hamilton,  Said M. Sebti,  Giacomo Laffi,  Paolo Gentilini, 
  • Pages: 131-140
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Hypoxic stimulation of vascular endothelial growth factor expression in activated rat hepatic stellate cells

Victor Ankoma-Sey M.D.,  Yun Wang,  Zhihao Dai, 
  • Pages: 141-148
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Increased toxin-induced liver injury and fibrosis in interleukin-6–deficient mice

Kellen Kovalovich,  Robert A. DeAngelis,  Wei Li,  Emma E. Furth,  Gennaro Ciliberto,  Dr. Rebecca Taub, 
  • Pages: 149-159
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Role of oxidative stress in hypoxia-reoxygenation injury to cultured rat hepatic sinusoidal endothelial cells

Dev A. Samarasinghe,  Michael Tapner,  Geoffrey C. Farrell, 
  • Pages: 160-165
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Ischemic preconditioning reduces Na+ accumulation and cell killing in isolated rat hepatocytes exposed to hypoxia

Rita Carini,  Maria Grazia De Cesaris,  Roberta Splendore,  Marco Bagnati,  Prof. Emanuele Albano, 
  • Pages: 166-172
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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A long-term hepatitis B viremia model generated by transplanting nontumorigenic immortalized human hepatocytes in Rag-2–deficient mice

Jennifer J. Brown,  Bhupesh Parashar,  Han Moshage,  Kathryn E. Tanaka,  Dean Engelhardt,  Elazar Rabbani,  Namita Roy-Chowdhury,  Jayanta Roy-Chowdhury M.D., 
  • Pages: 173-181
  • First Published: 30 December 2003

Viral Hepatitis

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Gastric mucosa as an additional extrahepatic localization of hepatitis C virus: Viral detection in gastric low-grade lymphoma associated with autoimmune disease and in chronic gastritis

Salvatore De Vita,  Valli De Re,  Domenico Sansonno,  Dario Sorrentino,  Renato La Corte,  Barbara Pivetta,  Daniela Gasparotto,  Vito Racanelli,  Alessandra Marzotto,  Antonella Labombarda,  Annunziata Gloghini,  Gianfranco Ferraccioli,  Angelo Monteverde,  Antonino Carbone,  Franco Dammacco,  Mauro Boiocchi Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 182-189
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Effects of age and viral determinants on chronicity as an outcome of experimental woodchuck hepatitis virus infection

Paul J. Cote Ph.D.,  Brent E. Korba,  Roger H. Miller,  James R. Jacob,  Betty H. Baldwin,  William E. Hornbuckle,  Robert H. Purcell,  Bud C. Tennant,  John L. Gerin, 
  • Pages: 190-200
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Antituberculosis drug-related liver dysfunction in chronic hepatitis B infection

Wai-Man Wong,  Pui-Chee Wu,  Man-Fung Yuen,  Chi-Chung Cheng,  Wing-Wai Yew,  Poon-Chuen Wong,  Cheuk-Ming Tam,  Chi-Chiu Leung,  Professor Ching-Lung Lai, 
  • Pages: 201-206
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Lamivudine treatment for decompensated cirrhosis resulting from chronic hepatitis B

Jean-Pierre Villeneuve M.D.,  Lynn D. Condreay,  Bernard Willems,  Gilles Pomier-Layrargues,  Daphna Fenyves,  Marc Bilodeau,  Raymond Leduc,  Kevork Peltekian,  Florence Wong,  Mariana Margulies,  E. Jenny Heathcote, 
  • Pages: 207-210
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Is an “à la carte” combination interferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin regimen possible for the first line treatment in patients with chronic hepatitis C?

Thierry Poynard,  John McHutchison,  Zachary Goodman,  Mei-Hsiu Ling,  Janice Albrecht, 
  • Pages: 211-218
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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In vitro evaluation of hepatitis B virus polymerase mutations associated with famciclovir resistance

Xiaofeng Xiong Ph.D.,  Huiling Yang,  Christopher E. Westland,  Ruiming Zou,  Craig S. Gibbs, 
  • Pages: 219-224
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Natural fluctuations of hepatitis C viral load in a homogeneous patient population: A prospective study

Liam Fanning Ph.D.,  Elizabeth Kenny-Walsh,  John Levis,  Kingshuk Roy Choudhury,  Bridin Cannon,  Margaret Sheehan,  Michael Whelton,  Fergus Shanahan, 
  • Pages: 225-229
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Decreased immunogenicity of recombinant hepatitis B vaccine in chronic hepatitis C

Marcus Wiedmann,  Uwe G. Liebert,  Ute Oesen,  Heiner Porst,  Manfred Wiese,  Sabine Schroeder,  Ulrich Halm,  Joachim Mössner,  Frieder Berr M.D., 
  • Pages: 230-234
  • First Published: 30 December 2003
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Derivation of hepatocytes from bone marrow cells in mice after radiation-induced myeloablation

Neil D. Theise M.D.,  Sunil Badve,  Romil Saxena,  Octavian Henegariu,  Stewart Sell,  James M. Crawford,  Diane S. Krause, 
  • Pages: 235-240
  • First Published: 30 December 2003

Hepatology At The Millennium

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Grading and staging the histopathological lesions of chronic hepatitis: The Knodell histology activity index and beyond

Elizabeth M. Brunt M.D., 
  • Pages: 241-246
  • First Published: 30 December 2003

Editorial

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Cholangiocarcinoma in primary sclerosing cholangitis: Who is at risk and how do we screen?

Piet C. de Groen M.D., 
  • Pages: 247-248
  • First Published: 30 December 2003