Autoimmune hepatitis and hepatic arteritis SIR, The presence of hepatic arteritis is a common finding in the hepatic biopsies of patients with PAN. Nevertheless, its impact on other collagen-vascular diseases (CVDs) is much lower. In an extensive pathological series of 120 autopsies and 40 hepatic in vivo biopsies taken from patients with a history of CVD, Matsumoto found signs of liver arterit...

background& objectives: hepatitis c virus is one of the recently  discovered viruses that tend to  cause chronic liver disease. hepatitis c is one of the most common types of viral  hepatitis, cirrhosis and carcinoma of liver in hemodialysis patients. the most important risk factors of  hepatitis c in dialysis patients are blood transfusion , duration of dialysis and  kidney transplantation .to...

Objective- The purpose of this study was to evaluate the protective impacts of Plantago. major (P. major) against the adverse effects resulted from testicular ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) on kidney and liver.Design- Experimental study.Animals- Twenty-four male rats.Procedures- The testicular I/R was induced by f...

The effect of Strobilanthes crispus extract and glycyrrhizin in on rats induced with carcinoma is reported. The results showed significant, increase of liver microsome glutathione s-transferase (GST) in rats after 12 weeks. Treatment with glycyrrhizin caused decrease in liver GST activity compared to control. Treatment with Strobilanthes crispus extract caused overall decrease in liver GST acti...

Pharmacokinetics and tissue distribution of daunomycin and different liposomal formulations of daunomycin were determined. Special emphasis was thereby given to immunoliposome-mediated drug delivery. Three different types of 85 nm liposomes were used for this study: 1) conventional liposomes, 2) liposomes sterically stabilized with 2000 Dalton polyethylene glycol and 3) immunoliposomes prepared...

The present study was planned to evaluate correlation between Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection and autoimmune liver disease (AILD). A total of 60 patients diagnosed with AILD in Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical College were continuously enrolled in the present study. HP infection was detected by 13C-urea breath test. The levels of anti-myeloperoxidase were tested by ELISA. The positive ...

BACKGROUND Chronic colitis-harboring TCRalpha(- / - ) x AIM(- / - ) mice showed PBC-like bile duct damage in the liver. Bacterial infection is one of the candidates for the pathogenesis of PBC. We demonstrated that the bacterial cell wall component lipotheicoic acid (LTA) was detected at sites of inflammation around damaged bile ducts in PBC patients. The aim of this study was to investigate th...

Bioaccumulation of heavy metals including Cd, Pb, Cu and Zn in muscle, gill, liver, kidney and stomach in Acipencer persicus was studied. Fish were collected from the ‘Iranian fishery zone 1’ located between Astara and Kiyahshahr. Samples (n=25) were collected from five stations in the study area during the autumn catch season in 2001. Samples were analyzed by wet digestion with hyd...

To investigate the effects of carvacrol supplementation in rainbow trout induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS), relative gene expressions levels of some pro-inflammatory cytokines and apoptosis markers in kidney and liver were measured. Fish with a mean weight of 44.71±1.33 g were studied using four different treatments with three replicates each. Inflammation and apoptosis were performed using L...

in order to determine the copper status and correlation between the ceruloplasmin and copper of serum and among the copper of serum, liver and kidney of slaughtered goats in shahrekord, blood, liver and kidney samples (10 gr) from 100 goats were gathered. the amounts of ceruloplasmin and copper of serum, liver and kidney were measured by sunderman - nomoto and shimadzu atomic absorption method,...