Hepatic tissue oxygenation as a predictive indicator of ischemia‐reperfusion liver injury

Moritaka Goto, Sunao Kawano, Harumasa Yoshihara, Yoshiyuki Takei, Taizo Hijioka, Hiroyuki Fukui, Takashi Matsunaga, Masahide Oshita, Toru Kashiwagi, Hideyuki Fusamoto, Takenobu Kamada, Nobuhiro Sato – 1 March 1992 – The purpose of this study was to determine whether hepatic tissue oxygenation after ischemia‐reperfusion procedures is an indicator for later liver injury. Partial ischemia in the liver was induced by ligating the left pedicles. Rats were divided into two groups according to duration of ischemia: group A (30‐min ischemia) and group B (60–min ischemia).

Metabolic and hemodynamic responses of bivascularly perfused rat liver to nerve stimulation, noradrenaline, acetylcholine and glucagon in thioacetamide‐induced micronodular cirrhosis

Thomas Zimmermann, Andreas Gardemann, Georg Machnik, Rolf Dargel, Kurt Jungermann – 1 March 1992 – Thioacetamide‐induced rat cirrhosis was characterized by single‐cell necroses, fibrosis, nodular parenchyma, decrease in parenchymal volume density and an increase in liver weight per body weight so that the total amount of parenchyma was not altered. The glycogen content was normal, and signs of decompensation were not found.

Improved serodiagnosis of non‐A, non‐B hepatitis by an assay detecting antibody to hepatitis C virus core antigen

Tohru Katayama, Toshio Mazda, Shu Kikuchi, Shizuko Harada, Yoshiharu Matsuura, Joe Chiba, Hiroyoshi Ohba, Izumu Saito, Tatsuo Miyamura – 1 March 1992 – We examined sequential serum samples from 12 patients with well‐characterized posttransfusion non‐A, non‐B hepatitis who had an acute, resolving self‐limited type of clinical course for the presence of antibody to the hepatitis C virus nucleocapsid (core) protein (p22) expressed by a recombinant baculovirus.

Liver plasma membrane–associated fibroblast growth: Stimulatory and inhibitory activities during experimental cirrhosis

Nickolay D. Belyaev, Vladimir G. Budker, Ludmila V. Deriy, Irina A. Smolenskaya, Vladimir M. Subbotin – 1 March 1992 – During experimental CCl4 cirrhosis, an increase of membrane‐associated factor stimulating 3T3 cell proliferation in vitro was observed. This stimulator is a 150‐kD protein similar to one previously described. In situ perfusion released growth stimulatory activity, suggesting a peripheral plasma membrane protein localizing on basolateral surfaces. The activity increased with increasing number of CCl4 treatments, reaching a maximum at the 14th intoxication.

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