Harold O. Conn – 1 November 1981

Ljudevit L. Andres, Vinod K. Sawhney, George H. Scullard, Joseph L. Smith, Thomas C. Merigan, William S. Robinson, Peter B. Gregory – 1 November 1981 – Fifty patients with chronic HBs antigenemia and Dane particle‐associated DNA polymerase and HBeAg in their serum were contrasted to 46 HBsAg positive patients who had neither serum DNA polymerase or HBeAg. The time from acute onset and the duration of antigenemia were longer in patients who were DNA polymerase and HBeAg negative than in those who had both serum markers.

Kunio Okuda – 1 November 1981

Julio Ponce, Agustin Froufe, Eduardo de la Morena, José Mir, Miguel Rayón, Ramón Pina, Joaquin Berenguer – 1 November 1981 – A morphometric study of the distal esophageal mucosa (within 5 cm above the gastroesophageal junction) has been carried out in a group of 11 cirrhotic patients undergoing esophageal transection with SPTU gun for variceal bleeding. The relative thickness of the papillae (62.2 ± 3.9%) and basal zone (11.8 ± 1.9%) were within normal limits. Polymorphonuclear infiltrates were not found either in the lamina propria or in the epithelium.

Jayanta Roy Chowdhury, Namita Roy Chowdhury, George Wu, Rivka Shouval, Irwin M. Arias – 1 November 1981 – Bilirubin diglucuronide, the major pigment in human bile is formed in two steps. Bilirubin is converted to bilirubin monoglucuronide by transfer of the glucuronosyl moiety of uridine diphosphoglucuronic acid catalyzed by the microsomal enzyme, uridine diphosphoglucuronate glucuronosyl transferase (UDP glucuronyl transferase, EC 2.4.1.17).

Yannick Laperche, Anne‐Marie Preaux, Gerard Feldmann, Jean‐Louis Mahu, Pierre Berthelot – 1 November 1981 – In order to determine if the delayed clearance of organic anions observed in vivo after fasting can be related to an alteration of cell membrane carriers, kinetics of sulfobromophthalein (BSP) uptake were determined in isolated rat liver cells obtained from 48‐hr starved rats. Surprisingly, in fasted rats the existence of two carriers can be directly revealed by classical kinetic plots.

William M. Belknap, William F. Balistreri, Frederick J. Suchy, Philip C. Miller – 1 November 1981 – We have shown that serum bile acid concentrations are elevated in human infants reflecting physiologic immaturity of the enterohepatic circulation. To define further the ontogeny of bile acid metabolism in mammals, we examined maturational changes in the serum concentration of total cholate conjugates by radioimmunoassay in fetal, neonatal, suckling, and mature Sprague‐Dawley rats.

Michael J. O'brien, Leonard S. Gottlieb – 1 November 1981

Francine Marciano‐Cabral, Karen L. Rublee, Robert L. Carithers, Edward A. Galen, Thomas J. Sobieski, Guy A. Cabral – 1 November 1981 – Liver biopsies from five patients with chronic non‐A, non‐B (NANB) hepatitis were examined by electron microscopy for hepatocellular alterations. Circular fused membranes were observed within the cytoplasm of hepatocytes of four of the patients. Aggregates of intranuclear particles, measuring 22 ± 2 nm in diameter, were also seen in two of the biopsies in which fused membranes were identified.

Mario Rizzetto, Maria G. Canese, Robert H. Purcell, William T. London, L. David Sly, John L. Gerin – 1 November 1981 – The occurrence and pathogenetic role of intrahepatic deposits of immunoglobulins in experimental viral infection have been evaluated by determining with immunofluorescence their capacity to fix complement in vitro [in vitro complement fixation (VCF)]. Liver biopsies from chimpanzees chronically or acutely infected with hepatitis B virus or the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)‐associated δ agent were used in the study.