Metformin is 1,1-dimethylbiguanide hydrochloride, the first-line therapy for type 2 diabetes. Additionally, several studies focused on role of metformin in antioxidant activities treatment hepatic disorders. The experimentally
 
 -based result valproic acid's liver injury, a front-line medicine epilepsy, attracted lot interest. As result, effect acid-induced redox disturbances rat tis...

The protective effect of silibinin (SBN) against hepatic fibrosis induced by repeated intermittent administration of N-nitrosodimethylamine (DMN) was investigated in rats. Oral administration of SBN recovered body and liver weight loss and reversed the elevation of serum AST, ALT and ALP accompanied by their fall in the liver tissue in DMN-induced fibrotic rats. Severe oxidative stress induced ...

Intrahepatic splenic tissue is uncommon being reported to date in three humans and one pig. This report is of a 54 year old man with chronic asthma who died from acute bronchial asthma. Twenty years previously he had undergone a splenectomy (the spleen was histologically normal). Necropsy revealed a well defined, smooth bordered, bilobed red mass on the left hepatic lobe; one lobe projected out...

AIM To evaluate the role of tissue factor (TF) and protease activated receptor (PAR)-2 in liver fibrosis. METHODS Using CCl4 administration for eight weeks, we induced hepatic fibrosis in wild-type C57BL/6 mice and in mice with deletion of the cytoplasmic signalling domain of TF (TF§CT/§CT), deletion of PAR-2 (PAR-2-/-) and combined deletion of TF signalling domain and PAR-2 (TF§CT/§CT/PAR-2-...

BACKGROUND The human diet has altered markedly during the past four decades, with the introduction of Trans hydrogenated fat, which extended the shelf-life of dietary oils and promoted a dramatic increase in elaidic acid (Trans-18.1) consumption. Food additives such as monosodium glutamate (MSG) and aspartame (ASP) were introduced to increase food palatability and reduce caloric intake. Nutrige...

The aim of this study was to explore whether alendronate sodium regulates tissue remodeling by controlling the transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-7-induced mesenchymal-epithelial transition (MET) in CCl(4)-induced hepatic fibrosis in mice. A mouse model of CCl(4)-induced hepatic fibrosis was evaluated using th...

The present study demonstrates that the rat liver obtains most of its triglyceride fatty acids from dietary sources. The dietary and adipose tissue contributions of linoleic acid for hepatic triglyceride esterification were shown to be 50.42 and 13.85 micro moles, respectively, during a 4-day period. When ethanol provided 40% of the caloric intake, fatty liver developed and hepatic triglyceride...

Fatty liver is a major health problem worldwide. People with hereditary deficiency of hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) are reported to develop fatty liver. In this study, systemic and tissue-specific HSL-deficient mice were used as models to explore the underlying mechanism of this association. We found that systemic HSL deficient mice developed fatty liver in an age-dependent fashion between 3 a...

Pheochromocytoma is one of recurrent tumors in patients with von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease. For bilateral adrenal glands, unilateral adrenalectomy the treatment choice; however, for a single gland, hemiadrenalectomy or tumorectomy can be performed instead to preserve function. Currently, recommended even if pheochromocytomas occur residual tissue. Consequently, insufficiency cannot avoided th...

This paper proposes a fast and accurate approach for the identification and quantification of the hepatic fibrosis from liver biopsies using Bayesian tissue classification methods. The approach is based on the pixel level color information, but also on the local texture information in 8×8 pixel neighborhoods, making thus use of the already available information in the microscopic images at hand...