... diagnosis and treatment of hemangiomas The MRI appearance of splenic hemangiomas has been described as being similar to that of hepatic hemangiomas However, larger hemangiomas may have a variable ... emphasize the importance of digital angiography in the accurate diagnosis of hemangiomas Tarazov et al [8] and Yamamoto et al [4] highlight the efficacy of...
... omentoplasty In our external drainage procedure we input drains in all cysts and before the inputting we explore for biliary yielding in the cyst and if we find a site of biliary coloring we stitch ... biliary drainage due to occult cysto-biliary fistulas be determined prior to surgery and what should be done during the surgery? ERCP is beneficial in showing the dilatation...
... the lung Lung injury induced by hepatic I/R is thought of as a result of liver-derived TNF-α In fact, blockade of TNF-α by antibody neutralization greatly reduced hepatic I/R induced lung inflammatory ... of lung injury induced by hepatic I/R Various methods, including pharmacological treatment, gene therapy and ischemia preconditioning, have been applied to ame...
... fixed in < /b> buffered formalin, embedded in < /b> paraffin, and stained with hematoxylin-eosin-safran and Masson's trichrome Hepatic < /b> steatosis,< /b> stage of < /b> fibrosis and grade of < /b> disease activity were determined ... shown in < /b> Table TG, GGT, Glb, and FINS were all associated with hepatic < /b> inflammation in < /b> each stage among HBeAg-negative < /...
... genotype infections who have a form of steatosis that is directly induced by the hepatitis C virus and which also resolves with successful treatment These two forms of steatosis can certainly coexist ... two distinct forms of steatosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C Metabolic steatosis generally occurs in all genotypes of HCV infections and likely worsens the progression of HC...
... generation of an electrochemical gradient across the IM forms the basis of the IM wm During cell death, MP often increases, allowing for the release of soluble proteins The only mechanism underlying mitochondrial ... the energy producers of the cell, and are essential for the maintenance of cell life However, in the last 10 years, it has also become apparent...
... with an antibody against ETA showed that cathepsins < /b> B and D degraded ETA in a < /b> pH-dependent manner, with maximal degradation being observed at pH The ETA fragments generated by < /b> the pure cathepsins < /b> ... Kinetics of < /b> appearance of < /b> ETA in hepatic < /b> plasma membranes and endosomes < /b> after toxin administration Rat hepatic < /b> plasma...
... glucokinase and hexokinase I in distinct pools [3,24], or by the involvement of mechanisms, additional to Glc6P, in mediating the effects of glucokinase overexpression As glucokinase binds to a dual-specificity ... [5,7] Conditions that cause dissociation of glucokinase from GKRP are associated with a parallel increase in the cell content of Glc6P, confirming...
... of glycogen in the intact liver in vivo Second, during infusion of [1-1 3C ]glucose, label incorporation was observed not only into the C1 of glycogen but also the C6 , which can only occur by label ... a mechanism can lead to increases in labeling of glycogen C6 even in the presence of decreased activity of the indirect pathway, provided that the increas...
... glycolysis from glucose and gluconeogenesis from the added glycerol The rate of carbohydrate synthesis from glycerol was 60% of the rate of glycolysis from 40 mM glucose and exceeded that of ... in the formation of glycolytic product from the infused glycerol Glycerol infusion depressed glycolysis from 10 mM glucose by 20% and, under...
... HSC activation (P < 0.05) These findings were confirmed in CCl4-induced experimental hepatic fibrosis Bcl-2, which can rarely be detected in the normal liver, was expressed increasingly in intrahepatic ... C.-J Guo et al Signaling pathways regulated in HSCs by miRNAs Fig Double immunofluorescence staining of Bcl-2, caspase-9 and desmin in liver tissue (· 200) Double staining of...
... gene signaling pathway analysis has identified gene signals that are remarkably activated in AT-MSC-Hepa, and these signals are also up-regulated in whole liver Therefore, the microarray analysis ... protocol, and then treated with deoxyribonuclease (DNase I, amplification grade; TaKaRa, Kyoto, Japan) Microarray analysis and data mining (Aligent array) A one-color microarray...
... Proteolysis of CT within hepatic endosomes at acidic pH We next examined the ability of hepatic endosomes to degrade CT (Fig 2) The luminal and membrane- bound distribution of endosomal CT-degrading ... 2005 FEBS 4387 Endosomal proteolysis of cholera toxin by cathepsin D pH Intermediate peptide peaks were only observed at pH in addition to the undegraded subunits w...
... phosphatase This reverses the inhibition of synthase phosphatase by phosphorylase a There is a long-standing debate as to whether inactivation of phosphorylase is a component of the mechanism by which ... dephosphorylation of phosphorylase a [16], that inactivation of GSK-3 in the absence of phosphorylase inactivation is a small compo...