The anti‐inflammatory effects of adiponectin are mediated via a heme oxygenase‐1–dependent pathway in rat Kupffer cells

Palash Mandal, Pil‐Hoon Park, Megan R. McMullen, Brian T. Pratt, Laura E. Nagy – 26 March 2010 – Altered expression and activity of immunomodulatory cytokines plays a major role in the pathogenesis of alcoholic liver disease. Chronic ethanol feeding increases the sensitivity of Kupffer cells, the resident hepatic macrophage, to lipopolysaccharide (LPS), leading to increased tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF‐α) expression. This sensitization is normalized by treatment of primary cultures of Kupffer cells with adiponectin, an anti‐inflammatory adipokine.

Hepatic resection versus radiofrequency ablation for very early stage hepatocellular carcinoma: A Markov model analysis

Yun Ku Cho, Jae Kyun Kim, Wan Tae Kim, Jin Wook Chung – 26 March 2010 – No adequate randomized trials have been reported for a comparison between hepatic resection (HR) versus radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for the treatment of patients with very early stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), defined as an asymptomatic solitary HCC <2 cm.

Sorafenib inhibits the shedding of major histocompatibility complex class I–related chain A on hepatocellular carcinoma cells by down‐regulating a disintegrin and metalloproteinase 9

Keisuke Kohga, Tetsuo Takehara, Tomohide Tatsumi, Hisashi Ishida, Takuya Miyagi, Atsushi Hosui, Norio Hayashi – 26 March 2010 – The ectodomain of major histocompatibility complex class I–related chain A (MICA) is shed from tumor cells, and may be an important means of evading antitumor immunity. This study investigated the roles of a disintegrin and metalloproteinase 9 (ADAM9) in the shedding of MICA in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

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