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    Hepatology Research: Volume 39, Issue 6

    531-631
    June 2009
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Original Articles

Clinical hepatology

Predicting the response to 48-week combination therapy with peginterferon α-2b plus ribavirin from the estimated HCV RNA load index after negative serum change in genotype 1b hepatitis C patients

Keiji Tsuji,  Yoshiiku Kawakami,  Shiomi Aimitsu,  Hiroshi Kohno,  Yasuyuki Aisaka,  Shigeru Kimura,  Shinji Nagata,  Hiroaki Ohgoshi,  Mikiya Kitamoto,  Tohru Hidaka,  Hiroiku Kawakami,  Toshio Nakanishi,  Kazuaki Chayama, 
  • Pages: 531-538
  • First Published: 22 May 2009

Low dose erythropoietin-beta improves anemia and maintains ribavirin dose in chronic hepatitis C patients receiving combination therapy with ribavirin plus pegylated interferon Alfa-2b

Kuo-Chih Tseng,  Li-Hsuan Chen,  Chi-Yi Chen,  Ting-Tsung Chang,  An-Liang Chou,  I-Chin Wu,  Pin-Nan Cheng, 
  • Pages: 539-545
  • First Published: 22 May 2009

Clinical characteristics of drug-induced liver injury in the elderly

Masahiro Onji,  Shin-ichi Fujioka,  Yasuto Takeuchi,  Toshiyuki Takaki,  Toshiya Osawa,  Kazuhide Yamamoto,  Tatsuya Itoshima, 
  • Pages: 546-552
  • First Published: 22 May 2009

Outcome of transarterial chemoembolization monotherapy, and in combination with percutaneous ethanol injection, or radiofrequency ablation therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma

Hiroyuki Kirikoshi,  Satoru Saito,  Masato Yoneda,  Koji Fujita,  Hironori Mawatari,  Takashi Uchiyama,  Takuma Higurashi,  Ayumu Goto,  Hirokazu Takahashi,  Yasunobu Abe,  Masahiko Inamori,  Noritoshi Kobayashi,  Kensuke Kubota,  Takashi Sakaguchi,  Norio Ueno,  Atsushi Nakajima, 
  • Pages: 553-562
  • First Published: 22 May 2009

Special stain and X-ray probe microanalysis of livers with Wilson disease

Hisao Hayashi,  Yoshikazu Fujita,  Yasuaki Tatsumi,  Ai Hattori,  Kazuhiko Hayashi,  Yoshiaki Katano,  Shinya Wakusawa,  Motoyoshi Yano,  Masafumi Itoh,  Naoki Mizutani,  Hidemi Goto, 
  • Pages: 563-568
  • First Published: 22 May 2009

Source of transmission in children with chronic hepatitis B infection after the implementation of a strategy for prevention in those at high risk

Haruki Komatsu,  Ayano Inui,  Tsuyoshi Sogo,  Eitaro Hiejima,  Naoko Kudo,  Tomoo Fujisawa, 
  • Pages: 569-576
  • First Published: 22 May 2009

Basic hepatology (Human study)

Recurrence of primary biliary cirrhosis and development of autoimmune hepatitis after liver transplant: A blind histologic study

Prodromos Hytiroglou,  Julio A. Gutierrez,  Maria Freni,  Joseph A. Odin,  Carmen M. Stanca,  Sukma Merati,  Thomas D. Schiano,  Andrea D. Branch,  Swan N. Thung, 
  • Pages: 577-584
  • First Published: 22 May 2009

Basic hepatology (Experimental study)

Regulatory T cells and liver pathology in a murine graft versus host response model

Teruo Miyazaki,  Mikio Doy,  Tadashi Ikegami,  Akira Honda,  Rie Unno,  Shinichi Itoh,  Bernard Bouscarel,  Yasushi Matsuzaki, 
  • Pages: 585-594
  • First Published: 22 May 2009

Effect of bile acids on the biliary excretion of pravastatin in rats

Yoshihiko Morisawa,  Hajime Takikawa, 
  • Pages: 595-600
  • First Published: 22 May 2009

Resveratrol amplifies profibrogenic effects of free fatty acids on human hepatic stellate cells

Lars P. Bechmann,  Denis Zahn,  Robert K. Gieseler,  Christian D. Fingas,  Guido Marquitan,  Christoph Jochum,  Guido Gerken,  Scott L. Friedman,  Ali Canbay, 
  • Pages: 601-608
  • First Published: 22 May 2009

Sex difference in the liver of hepatocyte-specific Pten-deficient mice: A model of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

Yumiko Anezaki,  Shigetoshi Ohshima,  Hajime Ishii,  Nobukatsu Kinoshita,  Takahiro Dohmen,  Ei Kataoka,  Wataru Sato,  Masahiro Iizuka,  Takashi Goto,  Junko Sasaki,  Takehiko Sasaki,  Akira Suzuki,  Hirohide Ohnishi,  Yasuo Horie, 
  • Pages: 609-618
  • First Published: 22 May 2009

Short Communication

Impaired regulation of serum hepcidin during phlebotomy in patients with chronic hepatitis C

Ryosuke Sugimoto,  Naoki Fujita,  Naohisa Tomosugi,  Nagisa Hara,  Hirohide Miyachi,  Hideaki Tanaka,  Masaki Takeo,  Naoki Nakagawa,  Motoh Iwasa,  Yoshinao Kobayashi,  Masahiko Kaito,  Yoshiyuki Takei, 
  • Pages: 619-624
  • First Published: 22 May 2009

Case Report

Adult progressive intrahepatic cholestasis associated with genetic variations in ATP8B1 and ABCB11

Yao-Chun Hsu,  Huey-Ling Chen,  Mu-Zon Wu,  Yu-Jung Liu,  Po-Huang Lee,  Jin-Chuan Sheu,  Chien-Hung Chen, 
  • Pages: 625-631
  • First Published: 22 May 2009