Heat shock protein 70 is required for optimal liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy in mice

Joshua H. Wolf, Tricia R. Bhatti, Suomi Fouraschen, Shourjo Chakravorty, Liqing Wang, Sunil Kurian, Daniel Salomon, Kim M. Olthoff, Wayne W. Hancock, Matthew H. Levine – 20 December 2013 – Liver regeneration is a complex process that restores functional tissue after resection or injury, and it is accompanied by transient adenosine triphosphate depletion and metabolic stress in hepatic parenchymal cells.

Sarcopenia is a prognostic factor in living donor liver transplantation

Toshiro Masuda, Ken Shirabe, Toru Ikegami, Norifumi Harimoto, Tomoharu Yoshizumi, Yuji Soejima, Hideaki Uchiyama, Tetsuo Ikeda, Hideo Baba, Yoshihiko Maehara – 20 December 2013 – The aims of this study were to investigate sarcopenia as a novel predictor of mortality and sepsis after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) and to evaluate the effects of early enteral nutrition on patients with sarcopenia. Two hundred four patients undergoing preoperative computed tomography within the month before LDLT were retrospectively evaluated.

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