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    Hepatology Research: Volume 39, Issue 7

    633-738
    July 2009
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Review Article

Liver development: lessons from knockout mice and mutant fish

Takashi Nakamura,  Hiroshi Nishina, 
  • Pages: 633-644
  • First Published: 22 June 2009

Editorial

T-cell subpopulation and tolerance

Hidetsugu Saito, 
  • Pages: 645-647
  • First Published: 22 June 2009

Original Articles

Clinical hepatology

Case–control study for the identification of virological factors associated with fulminant hepatitis B

Atsunori Kusakabe,  Yasuhito Tanaka,  Satoshi Mochida,  Nobuaki Nakayama,  Kazuaki Inoue,  Michio Sata,  Norio Isoda,  Jong-Hon Kang,  Yasukiyo Sumino,  Hiroshi Yatsuhashi,  Yasuhiro Takikawa,  Shuichi Kaneko,  Gotaro Yamada,  Yoshiyasu Karino,  Eiji Tanaka,  Junji Kato,  Isao Sakaida,  Namiki Izumi,  Fuminaka Sugauchi,  Shunsuke Nojiri,  Takashi Joh,  Yuzo Miyakawa,  Masashi Mizokami, 
  • Pages: 648-656
  • First Published: 22 June 2009

Chronic hepatitis C in patients co-infected with human immunodeficiency virus in Japan: a retrospective multicenter analysis

Hiroshi Yotsuyanagi,  Yoshimi Kikuchi,  Kunihisa Tsukada,  Kyouji Nishida,  Michio Kato,  Hironori Sakai,  Junki Takamatsu,  Shuhei Hige,  Kazuaki Chayama,  Kyoji Moriya,  Kazuhiko Koike, 
  • Pages: 657-663
  • First Published: 22 June 2009

The associated markers and their limitations for the primary screening of HCV carriers in public health examination

Teruo Miyazaki,  Akira Honda,  Tadashi Ikegami,  Takashi Hara,  Yoshifumi Saitoh,  Takeshi Hirayama,  Mikio Doy,  Yasushi Matsuzaki, 
  • Pages: 664-674
  • First Published: 22 June 2009

Liver stiffness measured by transient elastography correlates with fibrosis area in liver biopsy in patients with chronic hepatitis C

Yoshifumi Nitta,  Naoto Kawabe,  Senju Hashimoto,  Masao Harata,  Naruomi Komura,  Kyoko Kobayashi,  Yuko Arima,  Hiroaki Shimazaki,  Takuji Nakano,  Michihito Murao,  Naohiro Ichino,  Keisuke Osakabe,  Hisako Aoki,  Yoko Hosoe,  Hiroko Sugiyama,  Toru Nishikawa,  Kentaro Yoshioka, 
  • Pages: 675-684
  • First Published: 22 June 2009

Treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis with colestimide

Makiko Taniai,  Etsuko Hashimoto,  Maki Tobari,  Satoru Yatsuji,  Ikuko Haruta,  Katsutoshi Tokushige,  Keiko Shiratori, 
  • Pages: 685-693
  • First Published: 22 June 2009

Evaluation of therapeutic effects on rectal varices using percutaneous color Doppler ultrasonography

Takahiro Sato,  Katsu Yamazaki,  Jouji Toyota,  Yoshiyasu Karino,  Takumi Ohmura,  Jun Akaike, 
  • Pages: 694-699
  • First Published: 22 June 2009

Incidence and outcome of ischemic hepatitis complicating septic shock

Joan M. Raurich,  Olatz Pérez,  Juan A. Llompart-Pou,  Jordi Ibáñez,  Ignacio Ayestarán,  Jon Pérez-Bárcena, 
  • Pages: 700-705
  • First Published: 22 June 2009

Basic hepatology

Human study

Protein array technology to investigate cytokine production by monocytes from patients with advanced alcoholic cirrhosis: An ex vivo pilot study

Khalid A. Tazi,  Jean-Jacques Quioc,  Wael Abdel-Razek,  Zéra Tellier,  Cécile Guichard,  Eric Ogier-Denis,  Didier Lebrec,  Richard Moreau, 
  • Pages: 706-715
  • First Published: 22 June 2009

Association of TBX21 T-1993C polymorphism with viral persistence but not disease progression in hepatitis B virus carriers

Song Chen,  Wenli Zhao,  Wenting Tan,  Baoyan Xu,  Yunjie Dan,  Qing Mao,  Xuemei Kuang,  Yuming Wang,  Guohong Deng, 
  • Pages: 716-723
  • First Published: 22 June 2009

Experimental study

Adiponectin prevents progression of steatohepatitis in mice by regulating oxidative stress and Kupffer cell phenotype polarization

Juichi Fukushima,  Yoshihiro Kamada,  Hitoshi Matsumoto,  Yuichi Yoshida,  Hisao Ezaki,  Takayo Takemura,  Yukiko Saji,  Takumi Igura,  Shusaku Tsutsui,  Shinji Kihara,  Tohru Funahashi,  Iichiro Shimomura,  Shinji Tamura,  Shinichi Kiso,  Norio Hayashi, 
  • Pages: 724-738
  • First Published: 22 June 2009