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    Hepatology Research: Volume 44, Issue 4

    365-480
    April 2014
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Special Reports

Classification of the etiologies of acute liver failure in Japan: A report by the Intractable Hepato-Biliary Diseases Study Group of Japan

Satoshi Mochida,  Yasuhiro Takikawa,  Nobuaki Nakayama,  Makoto Oketani,  Takafumi Naiki,  Yoshiyuki Yamagishi,  Keiichi Fujiwara,  Takafumi Ichida,  Hirohito Tsubouchi, 
  • Pages: 365-367
  • First Published: 17 February 2014

Autoimmune hepatitis: Diagnosis and treatment guide in Japan, 2013

Morikazu Onji,  Mikio Zeniya,  Kazuhide Yamamoto,  Hirohito Tsubouchi, 
  • Pages: 368-370
  • First Published: 03 April 2014

Review Articles

Interferon-α/β for treatment of chronic hepatitis C infection in the era of direct-acting antiviral agents

Masaru Enomoto,  Akihiro Tamori,  Yoshiki Murakami,  Norifumi Kawada, 
  • Pages: 371-376
  • First Published: 11 December 2013

Pathophysiology and recent findings of primary biliary cirrhosis complicated by systemic sclerosis

Hiromasa Ohira,  Hiroshi Watanabe, 
  • Pages: 377-383
  • First Published: 06 December 2013

Current scenario for the hepatoprotective effects of Inchinkoto, a traditional herbal medicine, and its clinical application in liver surgery: A review

Yukihiro Yokoyama,  Masato Nagino, 
  • Pages: 384-394
  • First Published: 22 January 2014

Pathogenesis and management of Wilson disease

Masaru Harada, 
  • Pages: 395-402
  • First Published: 22 January 2014

Original Articles

Basic hepatology

Human study

Post-therapeutic needle biopsy in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma is a useful tool to evaluate response to proton irradiation

Yoshifumi Saito,  Yasushi Matsuzaki,  Akira Honda,  Junichi Iwamoto,  Tadashi Ikegami,  Toshiya Chiba,  Shinji Sugahara,  Toshiyuki Okumura,  Hirohiko Tsujii,  Mikio Doy,  Koichi Tokuuye, 
  • Pages: 403-409
  • First Published: 15 April 2013

Clinical efficacy of combination therapy with ME3738 and pegylated interferon-alpha-2a in patients with hepatitis C virus genotype 1

Toshiji Saibara,  Nobuyuki Enomoto,  Shuichi Kaneko,  Kazuaki Chayama,  Michio Sata,  Michio Imawari,  Saburo Onishi,  Kiwamu Okita, 
  • Pages: 410-419
  • First Published: 19 April 2013

Anti-nucleosome autoantibodies as markers for autoimmune hepatitis and their correlation with disease activity

Junko Yokokawa,  Yukiko Kanno,  Kazumichi Abe,  Hironobu Saito,  Kyoko Monoe,  Fumiko Katsushima,  Natsumi Sakamoto,  Atsushi Takahashi,  Hirohide Yokokawa,  Hiromasa Ohira, 
  • Pages: 420-428
  • First Published: 08 April 2013

Efficacy of probucol for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis with dyslipidemia: An open-label pilot study

Tomokazu Ishitobi,  Hideyuki Hyogo,  Hironori Tokumo,  Koji Arihiro,  Kazuaki Chayama, 
  • Pages: 429-435
  • First Published: 17 April 2013

Effect of abstinence from alcohol on survival of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Yan-Di Xie,  Bo Feng,  Yan Gao,  Lai Wei, 
  • Pages: 436-449
  • First Published: 11 April 2013

Experimental study

Liver damage is not reversed during the lean period in diet-induced weight cycling in mice

Sandra Barbosa-da-Silva,  Natalia C. da Silva,  Marcia B. Aguila,  Carlos A. Mandarim-de-Lacerda, 
  • Pages: 450-459
  • First Published: 18 April 2013

Cilostazol attenuates hepatic stellate cell activation and protects mice against carbon tetrachloride-induced liver fibrosis

Shunichi Saito,  Koichiro Hata,  Keiko Iwaisako,  Atsuko Yanagida,  Masatoshi Takeiri,  Hirokazu Tanaka,  Shoichi Kageyama,  Hirofumi Hirao,  Kazuo Ikeda,  Masataka Asagiri,  Shinji Uemoto, 
  • Pages: 460-473
  • First Published: 19 April 2013

Short Communication

Clinical significance of hepatectomy for primary biliary cirrhosis patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: Report of a single center case series and review of the published work

Kazunari Sasaki,  Masamichi Matsuda,  Yu Ohkura,  Yusuke Kawamura,  Masafumi Inoue,  Yoshiyuki Suzuki,  Masaji Hashimoto,  Kenji Ikeda,  Hiromitsu Kumada,  Goro Watanabe, 
  • Pages: 474-480
  • First Published: 15 April 2013