Ali Al‐Tuwaijri, Kemal Akdamar, Nicholas R. di Luzio – 1 March 1981 – The reticuloendothelial system has been implicated in galactosamine‐induced liver injury because of a correlation between phagocytic alterations induced by colloidal carbon or endotoxin, and development of liver necrosis. To evaluate this concept, the influence of galactosamine on liver function and histology was determined in rats in which the reticuloendothelial system was normal, stimulated, or depressed.

1 January 1981

Mikko P. Salaspuro, Spencer Shaw, Elizabeth Jayatilleke, William A. Ross, Charles S. Lieber – 1 January 1981 – Acute ethanol administration results in increased hepatic NADH/NAD+ ratio and inhibition of galactose elimination, tricarboxylic acid cycle activity, and fatty acid oxidation. To determine how this redox change is affected by chronic alcohol consumption and to assess the resulting metabolic consequences, we studied baboons which were fed alcohol as 50% of their total calories.

Kunio Okuda – 1 January 1981

Helmut Denk, Werner W. Franke, Brigitte Dragosics, Ingrid Zeiler – 1 January 1981 – A cytoskeleton fraction enriched in intermediate‐sized filaments and resistant to high and low salt buffer containing Triton X‐100 was prepared from dissociated mouse liver cells and mouse liver homogenates. One‐dimensional sodium dodecyl sulfate‐polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed a family of polypeptides in the relative molecular weight (Mr) range from 41,000 to 55,000, with two polypeptides (component A, Mr 55,000; component D, Mr 48,000) as major constituents.

David H. van Thiel, Judith S. Gavaler, Joel A. Spero, Kimberley M. Egler, Carl Wight, Ajitkumar T. Sanghvi, Ute Hasiba, Jessica H. Lewis – 1 January 1981 – The hypothalamic‐pituitary‐gonadal axis was evaluated in two groups of age‐matched men with documented biochemical and histologic liver disease and compared to that of age‐matched normal controls.

Harry B. Greenberg, William S. Robinson, C. Michael Knauer, Peter B. Gregory – 1 January 1981 – In our double‐blind randomized trial of methylprednisolone vs. placebo in severe viral hepatitis, 16 patients with hepatitis B (8 on steroid, 8 on placebo) were followed for at least 4 weeks. Four of the eight patients receiving methylprednisolone eventually died and all patients on placebo survived. Despite marked reduction in serum IgG in steroid‐treated patients, the decline in HBsAg titer and disappearance of Dane particle markers was the same in both treatment groups.

Irwin M. Arias – 1 January 1981

1 January 1981

Sidney Goldfischer, Harold W. Grotsky, Chung‐Ho Chang, Errol L. Berman, Robert R. Richert, Sushama D. Karmarkar, Jacqueline O. Roskamp, Rachel Morecki – 1 January 1981 – Autopsy studies of two infants, one a newborn, the other 4 months old, revealed massive amounts of iron in lysosomes of hepatocytes and pancreatic acinar cells. Iron, which had been transported across the placenta, accumulated in the same cell types as in adults with primary and secondary hemochromatosis.