2022 September - 12 articles
Polyamines (PAs), endogenous metabolites with a wide range of biological activities, are synthesized at a high rate in liver supporting hepatocyte proliferation and survival. The liver appears as an important regulator of plasma PAs; however, the per...
Background: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is defined as a bacterial infection of the ascitic fluid without a surgically treatable intra-abdominal infection source. SBP is a common, severe complication in cirrhosis patients with ascites, and...
Liver cancer ranks as the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Despite extensive research efforts aiming to evaluate the biological mechanisms underlying hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development, little has been translated towards new dia...
Gallbladder percutaneous tissue sampling is a not-so-common technique in cytohistological diagnosis of gallbladder tissue or masses, which can be useful in cases of surgically unresectable disease and unfeasible endoscopic assessment to address the m...
In liver research, immortalized cell lines have assumed an important role in studying general physiological and pathological processes. However, misidentification and cross-contamination of cell lines is a widespread problem in biomedical sciences re...
Malnutrition in cirrhotic patients is extremely common and has a multifactorial aetiology, whose constitutive elements have not been completely elucidated yet. Protein depletion is particularly important and an imbalance of hormones regulating hunger...
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the main cause of liver disease. The physiopathological processes involved in the disease are metabolic syndrome (MetS) components (central obesity, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance/type 2 diabetes, hyperte...
Microbiome-derived short chain fatty acids (SCFAs: acetate, propionate, and butyrate) and bile acids (BAs: primary BAs and secondary BAs) widely influence liver metabolic inflammation, immune responses, and carcinogenesis. In recent literature, the r...
Herbal and dietary supplement (HDS) use has grown exponentially in the United States. Unfortunately, the incidence of HDS-related liver injury has proportionally increased. Despite the potential for certain HDSs to cause clinically significant liver...
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common liver disease in Western countries, with its prevalence increasing annually [...]
Knowledge regarding the prevalence of the hepatitis E virus (HEV) in the general population can indicate public health and personal hygiene practices in a community. HEV spreads through the fecal-oral route and contaminates drinking water through sew...
Acetaminophen (N-acetyl-para-aminophenol (APAP)) is one of the most-studied drugs worldwide [...]
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