the incidence of drug induced liver injury (dili) is about 1/1000 to 1/10000 among patients who receive therapeutic drug doses. drug induced hepatotoxicity is a major cause of acute and chronic liver disease. the severity of liver damage ranges from nonspecific changes in liver structure to acute liver failure, cirrhosis and liver cancer. some common agents that can cause liver injury are aceta...

The acid phosphatase activity of rat liver homogenates and of nuclear and cytoplasmic fractions isolated therefrom (by differential centrifugation) was determined biochemically in a series of experiments. For each liver, Gomori's histochemical test for acid phosphatase was run in parallel. No correlation was found between the biochemical and the histochemical results. According to the former, t...

background salep is used for various purposes in food industries and traditional medicine. therefore, evaluation of its effect on the liver seems to be necessary. objectives the aim of this study was to assess salep effect on liver. materials and methods in this experimental study, various concentrations of salep were intraperitoneally administered to five groups of wistar rats (control, placeb...

The Lower North Shore region of the St. Lawrence River is home to a fish-eating population that displays an unusually high body burden of several organochlorines, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dioxin-like compounds (DLCs). We measured biomarkers indicative of liver enzyme induction and investigated the relationship with organochlorine body burden in adult volunteers from this p...

A newly developed specific radioimmunoassay was used to quantify phosphofructokinase protein directly and independently of assayable activity in liver and kidney cytosol of normal fed, starved and alloxan-diabetic rats. In the fed state, liver phosphofructokinase concentration was 0.096 microM and the kidney enzyme was 0.086 microM (mumol/kg of tissue). In the starved state (24h), liver and kid...

background nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (nash) is a common liver disease that can progress to cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma. it is estimated that up to 3% of the iranian population have this condition. although the pathogenesis of nash is incompletely understood, there is significant evidence pointing to the importance of insulin resistance. metformin is an oral hypoglycemic agent known...

Objective: Liver transplantation using a living donor (LDLT) is currently the most popular method used in worldwide. Appropriate biomarkers that predict graft status should be to detect early post-transplant complications may lead rejection reaction. Material and Method: The study involved total of 44 liver recipients donors, from whom preoperative blood samples were taken immunoassay spectroph...

BACKGROUND Urinary trypsin inhibitors (UTI) have been widely used for the treatment of diseases including disseminated intravascular coagulation, shock, and pancreatitis. Since UTI synthesis is likely to be reduced in patients who have undergone liver resection, the incidence of inflammatory reactions may be increasing accordingly. For such patients, the liver enzyme increases after the operati...

activities of the key enzymes of gluconeogenesis in the liver and kidney of the foetal guinea pig have been followed. The foetal guinea pigs used had a gestational age of 68-72 days. Pyruvate carboxylase was present at very low activities in the kidney of the foetus and neonatal animal and also in the foetal liver until day 50, when it increased in activity to reach a value by day 60 of more th...

Biotinidase is an enzyme synthesized predominantly by the liver. Serum activity of this enzyme has been shown to be low in chronic liver disease. In this study, we endeavored to assess the diagnostic value of serum biotinidase as a marker of hepatic biosynthetic function in acute and chronic liver dysfunction. Twenty-three patients with acute liver disease and 46 with chronic liver disease, as ...