Carl T. McGary, Judith Yannariello‐Brown, Dennis W. Kim, Tami C. Stinson, Paul H. Weige – 1 December 1993 – The release and intracellular accumulation of 125I‐hyaluronan degradation products was studied in cultured liver endothelial cells with hyaluronan oligosaccharides (relative molecular mass = approximately 44,000) uniquely modified and radiolabeled at the terminal reducing sugar. Two methods were combined to measure 125I‐hyaluronan degradation by liver endothelial cells.

Stuart C. Gordon, Richard S. Elloway, John C. Long, Carl F. Dmuchowski – 1 December 1993 – We reviewed the clinical records of 140 consecutively evaluated patients with chronic hepatitis C infection. One hundred twenty‐four patients (89%) contracted infection through blood transfusion or intravenous drug use. The liver biopsy specimens of 83 patients (43 blood transfusion cases and 40 intravenous drug abuse cases) were examined without knowledge of the mode of disease transmission.

Andreas Gardemann, Thomas Zimmermann, Georg Machnik, Rolf Dargel, Kurt Jungermann – 1 December 1993

Vijayan Balan, Kennetii P. Batts, Michael K. Porayko, Ruud A. F. Krom, Jurgen Ludwig, Russell H. Wiesner – 1 December 1993 – Whether primary biliary cirrhosis recurs after orthotopic liver transplantation remains a controversial issue. Sixty consecutive patients with primary biliary cirrhosis with at least 1 yr of follow‐up after liver transplantation were studied. All patients were treated with triple‐drug immunosuppression (cyclospoine, prednisone, azathioprine).

Yves M. Deugnier, Paul Charalambous, Daniéle Le Quilleuc, Bruno Turlin, Jeffrey Searle, Pierre Brissot, Lawrie W. Powell, June W. Halliday – 1 December 1993 – Sublobular nodules of hepatocytes free of iron or exhibiting much less iron than the surrounding parenchyma, referred to in this study as iron‐free‐foci, are frequently found in the livers of patients with genetic hemochromatosis complicated by hepatocellular carcinoma.

1 November 1993

Winita Hardikar, Frederick J. Suchy – 1 November 1993 – Transport systems involved in uptake and biliary secretion of bile salts have been extensively studied in rat liver; however, little is known about these systems in the human liver. In this study, we investigated taurocholate (TC) transport in canalicular and basolateral plasma membrane vesicles isolated from 15 human livers (donor age 6–64 yr). ATP stimulated the uptake of TC into both canalicular and basolateral human liver plasma membrane vesicles (cLPM and bILPM, respectively).

Fred D. Ledley – 1 November 1993

Herman Steen, Hans Smit, Almar Nijholt, Marjolijn Merema, Dirk K. F. Meijer – 1 November 1993 – To investigate whether hepatobiliary transport of organic cations is under regulatory control, we studied transport of tri‐n‐butylmethylammonium in the isolated perfused rat liver and in isolated rat hepatocytes. Transport was investigated in the presence of modulators of the protein kinase C and the cyclic AMP second‐messenger system.

Jose J. G. Marin, Emilio R. Barbero, Maria C. Herrera, Arantxa Tabernero, Maria J. Monte – 1 November 1993 – Liver cell proliferation is a complex process that can be affected by a large number of factors such as bile acids, which have been reported to be associated to the pathogenesis of liver cancer. In this work, bile acid–induced modifications in DNA synthesis by regenerating perfused rat liver were investigated. Two‐thirds hepatectomy was carried out 24 hr before perfusion of livers with recirculating, erythrocyte‐free Krebs‐Henseleit solution.