Insights into the Correlation between Toll-Like Receptor 2 Polymorphism and HBV-Related Disease Progression and Occurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Case-Control Study in Egyp... by Naglaa S. Elabd, Marwa L. Helal, Mohsen Elkhayat, Heba Kamal Abd-ElKhalek, Doaa M. Ahmed, Asmaa M. El-Shemy, Yara S. Elsaadawy, Rasha A. Abdelmoneum, Hind S. AboShabaan, Randa M. Seddik

“…Background and Aim. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection causes a variety of clinical manifestations, including liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). …”
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Aetiology of chronic liver disease is a valuable factor for stratifying adverse outcomes of acute decompensation: prospective observational study by Jung Hee Kim, Sung-Eun Kim, Do Seon Song, Hee Yeon Kim, Eileen L. Yoon, Ji Won Park, Tae Hyung Kim, Young-Kul Jung, Ki Tae Suk, Hyung Joon Yim, Jung Hyun Kwon, Sung Won Lee, Seong Hee Kang, Moon Young Kim, Soung Won Jeong, Jae-Young Jang, Jeong Ju Yoo, Sang Gyune Kim, Young-Joo Jin, Gab Jin Cheon, Byung Seok Kim, Yeon Seok Seo, Hyoungsu Kim, Dong Hyun Sinn, Woo Jin Chung, Hwi Young Kim, Han Ah Lee, Seung Woo Nam, In Hee Kim, Ji Hoon Kim, Hee Bok Chae, Joo Hyun Sohn, Ju Yeon Cho, Yoon Jun Kim, Jin Mo Yang, Jung Gil Park, Won Kim, Hyun Chin Cho, Dong Joon Kim

“…The most common aetiology of CLD was alcohol (n = 1021), followed by viral hepatitis (n = 206), viral hepatitis with alcohol-related (n = 129), cryptogenic (n = 108) and autoimmune (n = 37). …”
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Modulation of Innate Immunity by G-CSF and Inflammatory Response by LBPK95A Improves the Outcome of Sepsis in a Rat Model by Haoshu Fang, Chuanfeng Hua, Stefanie Weiss, Anding Liu, Wenhui Cheng, Ralf Claus, Jürgen Rödel, Olaf Dirsch, Uta Dahmen

“…G-CSF treatment increased the white blood cell counts, hepatic neutrophil infiltration, and bacterial clearance in the liver, lung, and blood. …”
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Estimation of antioxidant and hypolipidemic activities of extracts of Citrus x aurantium leaves in vitro by Loulia Al Hawat, Loai Alallan

“…Methods: Three different extracts were prepared using distilled water, ethanol 70 %, and n-hexane. The Folin-Ciocalteu assay was used to determine the total phenolic content of extracts. …”
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Effects of dietary dihydroartemisinin on growth performance, meat quality, and antioxidant capacity in broiler chickens by Xiaoxiao Pu, Yuxuan Liang, Jiafang Lian, Miaoxuan Xu, Yalan Yong, Hao Zhang, Lili Zhang, Jingfei Zhang

“…Dihydroartemisinin quadratically increased the hepatic mRNA expression of Nrf2. Compared to the control group, dihydroartemisinin at 10 and 20 mg/kg quadratically induced the hepatic mRNA expression of HO-1. …”
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Clarithromycin-Associated Acute Liver Failure Leading to Fatal, Massive Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage from Profound Coagulopathy: Case Report and Systematic Literature Review by Ahmed I. Edhi, Seifeldin Hakim, Christienne Shams, Damanpreet Bedi, Mitual Amin, Mitchell S. Cappell

“…A new case of clarithromycin-associated ALF is reported with hepatic histopathology and exclusion of other etiologies by extensive workup, and the syndrome of clarithromycin-associated ALF is better characterized by systematic review. …”
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Phytochemical Profile and Antioxidant Activity of Nigella sativa L Growing in Morocco by Salima Tiji, Ouijdane Benayad, Mohamed Berrabah, Ibrahim El Mounsi, Mostafa Mimouni

“…In summary, the separation of hexane extract presents a more pronounced positive effect for antioxidant tests than acetone extract.…”
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Cytokines and Liver Diseases by Herbert Tilg

“…There is increasing evidence that several cytokines mediate hepatic inflammation, apoptosis and necrosis of liver cells, cholestasis and fibrosis. …”
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Long-Term Suitability of Left Gastric Artery Inflow for Arterial Perfusion of Living Donor Right Lobe Grafts by Judyta A. Lipinska, Johnny Wang, Joseph N. Carey, Aaron A. Ahearn, Yuri S. Genyk

“…At grafting, the risk for later thrombosis is high if a dissected hepatic artery is used for standard reconstruction. …”
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Functional Relationships between Lipid Metabolism and Liver Regeneration by David A. Rudnick, Nicholas O. Davidson

“…Nevertheless, the nature and identities of the most proximal events that initiate hepatic regeneration as well as those distal signals that terminate this process remain unknown. …”
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A Role for RNA Viruses in the Pathogenesis of Burkitt's Lymphoma: The Need for Reappraisal by Corry van den Bosch

“…The mechanisms of oncogenesis believed to operate in Hepatitis C lymphomagenesis are discussed, as is their potential applicability to Chikungunya Virus.…”
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Cardiac Failure after Liver Transplantation Requiring a Biventricular Assist Device by Rita Jermyn, Eiei Soe, David D’Alessandro, Julia Shin, William Jakobleff, Daniel Schwartz, Milan Kinkhabwala, Paul J. Gaglio

“…Increased hepatic iron load in extrahepatic organs of cirrhotic patients with and without hereditary hemochromatosis portends a poorer long term prognosis after liver transplant. …”
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Unexplained Findings of Kayser-Fleischer-Like Rings in a Patient with Cryptogenic Cirrhosis by Mahreema Jawairia, Miral Subhani, Ghulam Siddiqui, Apsara Prasad, Ghulamullah Shahzad, Kaleem Rizvon, Paul Mustacchia

“…Cryptogenic cirrhosis (CC) is defined as cirrhosis occurring in an individual without an identifiable cause of liver disease, such as excessive alcohol consumption, viral hepatitis infection, hemochromatosis, autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, chronic intake of medications that could induce cirrhosis, alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, Wilson’s disease, or any other rare cause of cirrhosis according to the clinical context. …”
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Multiple Giant Liver Cysts in a Nepalese Lad by Ashish Lal Shrestha, Shova Banstola Paudel, Saurav Krishna Malla

“…To the best of our knowledge, this probably represents the first case of multiple giant hepatic hydatidosis at such a young age being reported from Nepal. …”
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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance for Diagnosis of Neuroendocrine Tumor Metastases to the Right and Left Ventricles with Carcinoid Heart Disease by Daniel Barnebee, Brian Morse, Jonathan R. Strosberg, Marijan Pejic, Daniel Jeong

“…A 76-year-old male with a small bowel neuroendocrine tumor with hepatic metastases presented with new onset lower extremity swelling, bloating, and weight gain which ultimately lead to cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) to evaluate for cardiac involvement of disease. …”
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The Investigation of HBV Pre-S/S Gene Mutations in Occult HBV Infected Blood Donors with anti-HBs Positive by Yan Guo, Yu Lan, Yuanyuan Jing, Bin Cai, Hanshi Gong, Yixin Zhang, Yong Duan

“…Introduction. The coexistence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis B surface antibodies (anti-HBs) in occult hepatitis B virus infection (OBI) is a contradictory phenomenon, and the underlying mechanism is not fully understood. …”
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Metabolic Alteration in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Mechanism of Lipid Accumulation in Well-Differentiated Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Hideo Suzuki, Motoyuki Kohjima, Masatake Tanaka, Takeshi Goya, Shinji Itoh, Tomoharu Yoshizumi, Masaki Mori, Mariko Tsuda, Motoi Takahashi, Miho Kurokawa, Koji Imoto, Shigeki Tashiro, Akifumi Kuwano, Masaki Kato, Seiji Okada, Makoto Nakamuta, Yoshihiro Ogawa

“…Tissue samples were obtained from 103 HCC patients who had undergone hepatic resection and 12 living donors of liver transplantation. …”
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High lipid diet can keep liver health but cause muscle oxidative stress of triploid rainbow trout treated with acute hypoxic challenge by Changye Li, Buying Han, Guoliang Sun, Haining Tian, Zezhong Wu, Changzhong Li, Yuqiong Meng, Rui Ma

“…In summary, HL diet could promote hepatic lipolysis to supply energy, enhance hepatic antioxidant, and then alleviate liver damage caused by oxidative stress when fish was treated with acute hypoxic challenge. …”
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Effects of Delta-Like Noncanonical Notch Ligand 1 Expression of Human Fetal Liver Hepatoblasts on Hematopoietic Progenitors by Jörg C. Gerlach, Robert L. Thompson, Bruno Gridelli, Eva Schmelzer

“…Although the hepatic and hematopoietic progenitors of the liver are well characterized, the interactions between these two lineages remain mostly elusive. …”
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Role of hepatocyte RIPK1 in maintaining liver homeostasis during metabolic challenges by Weigao Zhang, Hu Liu, Danyang Zhang, Yuguo Yi, Liang Tao, Yunfeng Zhu, Shuxian Huang, Xunan Zhao, Qianchao Shao, Peiqi Li, Yiwen Weng, Wei Lu, Jianfa Zhang, Haibing Zhang, Yuxin Chen, Dan Weng

“…In this study, we identified Receptor interacting protein kinase 1 (RIPK1) in hepatocytes as a critical regulator in preserving hepatic homeostasis during metabolic challenges, such as short-term fasting or high-fat dieting. …”
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