The Liver in Biology and Disease - Liver Biology in Disease, Hepato - Biology in Disease

The Liver in Biology and Disease - Liver Biology in Disease, Hepato - Biology in Disease

von: Edward Bittar (Ed.)

Elsevier Textbooks, 2005

ISBN: 9780080459264 , 600 Seiten

Format: PDF

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The Liver in Biology and Disease - Liver Biology in Disease, Hepato - Biology in Disease


 

Cover

1

CONTENTS

5

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

9

PREFACE

13

1. THE INTRAHEPATIC BILIARYTREE

19

2. FUNCTIONAL HETEROGENEITYOF INTRAHEPATICCHOLANGIOCYTES

39

3. THE ACTIN CYTOSKELETONIN LIVER FUNCTION

67

4. MECHANISMS OF BILEFORMATION AND CHOLESTASIS

99

5. THE ROLE OF BILE ACIDSIN THE MODULATION OFAPOPTOSIS

137

6. GROWTH FACTORS AND THELIVER

165

7. CHEMOKINE AND CYTOKINEREGULATION OF LIVER INJURY

185

8. DRUG METABOLISM ANDHEPATOTOXICITY

225

9. ASSEMBLY AND SECRETION OFHEPATIC VERY-LOW-DENSITYLIPOPROTEIN

247

10. BILIRUBIN METABOLISM

275

11. CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRYOF THE LIVER

309

12. ALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASE

335

13. FULMINANT HEPATIC FAILURE

379

14. PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS

401

15. CHRONIC ACTIVE HEPATITIS

417

16. HEPATITIS B VIRUS

445

17. CURRENT ISSUES INHEPATITIS B VACCINES

457

18. THE MOLECULAR VIROLOGYOF HEPATITIS C VIRUS

473

19. THE ROLE OF THE HEPATICSTELLATE CELL IN LIVERFIBROSIS

515

20. ORTHOTOPIC LIVERTRANSPLANTATION

543

21. BIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES ANDNOVEL THERAPIES IN LIVERCELL TRANSPLANTATION

561

22. FLUID TRANSPORT INTHE GALLBLADDER

573

AUTHOR INDEX

595

SUBJECT INDEX

613