Michel Charbonneau, Beatriz Tuchweber, Gabriel L. Plaa – 1 July 1986 – The ability of ketonic compounds to modify the chronic liver injury (cirrhosis) induced by haloalkanes is unknown. To investigate this problem, male Sprague‐Dawley rats were treated p.o. twice weekly for 12 weeks with acetone (25 mmoles per kg in corn oil) or corn oil alone (10 ml per kg). The rats were treated p.o. with corn oil (10 ml per kg) or CCl4 (5 mmoles per kg in corn oil) 18 hr after each pretreatment. Animals were killed after 4, 8, 10 or 12 weeks of treatment.

Patrick Grippon, Monique le Poncin Lafitte, Michèle Boschat, Shwen Wang, Grazyna Faure, Dominique Dutertre, Pierre Opolon – 1 July 1986 – After portacaval shunt in the rat, the transport of tryptophan and other neutral amino acids across the blood‐brain barrier is enhanced.

Jacques Bernuau, Alain Goudeau, Thierry Poynard, Frederic Dubois, Gerard Lesage, Bernard Yvonnet, Claude Degott, Annie Bezeaud, Bernard Rueff, Jean‐Pierre Benhamou – 1 July 1986 – We assessed prognostic factors in 115 patients with serologically defined fulminant hepatitis B. The diagnosis in each case was based on the finding of IgM antibody to the hepatitis B core antigen in serum.

Pierre A. Russo, Eduardo J. Yunis – 1 July 1986 – Five cases of subcapsular liver necrosis were found in a series of 55 hepatic orthotopic allografts examined at hepatectomy or autopsy during a 3‐yr period at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. There was a pronounced rise in liver enzymes in the first few days in all of the cases after transplantation followed by a decrease in values in four of the cases over the next few days. All were characterized by an irregular subcapsular band of necrotic tissue involving both lobes, to a variable degree, but most frequently the right lobe.

Leonard B. Seeff – 1 July 1986

Asghar Rastegar – 1 July 1986 – The assumption of upright posture by patients with liver cirrhosis leads to striking activation of adrenergic and renin‐angiotensin systems. The tilting‐induced modifications in renal function of eight healthy controls and 14 untreated patients with liver cirrhosis and ascites were related to plasma concentrations of noradrenaline, renin activity and aldosterone. All patients had preserved renal blood perfusion. All parameters were evaluated during bed rest for two hours and in the sitting posture for one hour.

Kunio Okuda – 1 July 1986

Yutaka Sasaki, Norio Hayashi, Akinori Kasahara, Hiroyuki Matsuda, Hideyuki Fusamoto, Nobuhiro Sato, Carmel J. Hillyard, Samia Girgis, Iain Macintyre, Piers C. Emson, Sadao Shiosaka, Masaya Tohyama, Yahe Shiotani, Takenobu Kamada – 1 July 1986 – The distribution and origin of calcitonin gene‐related peptide immunoreactive structures in hepatic and splanchnic vasculature of the rat were investigated by the immunofluorescent technique.

Arieh Bomzon, Moshe Rosenberg, Devorah Gali, Ofer Binah, Dani Mordechovitz, Ori S. Better, Paul D. Greig, Laurence M. Blendis – 1 July 1986 – Vascular instability as defined by systemic hypotension and unresponsiveness to endogenous or exogenous vasoactive substances is a feature of both patients and experimental animals with obstructive jaundice. In this study, we have attempted to dissect the possible mechanisms for these abnormalities using both in vivo and in vitro methods.

Robert H. Collins, Leon Lack, Kenneth M. Harman, Paul G. Killenberg – 1 July 1986 – A monoclonal antibody, PK1B, directed against rat liver bile acid sulfotransferase was used for the purification and characterization of the enzyme. Incubation of rat liver supernatant with the antibody followed by immunoprecipitation with Staphylococcus aureus cells demonstrated that PK1B reacted with 90% of the enzymatic activity present in the liver supernatant from female rats and 40 to 50% of the activity in male liver preparations.