Background—Massive liver necrosis, characteristic of acute liver failure, may affect hepatosplanchnic haemodynamics, and contribute to the alterations in renal haemodynamics and function. Aims—To ...

Hepatocyte transplantation (HTx) has been a novel cell-based therapy for severe liver diseases, as the donor livers for orthotopic liver transplantation are of great shortage. However, HTx has been ...

From the Department of Surgery, Tufts College Medical School, the Joseph H. Pratt Diagnostic Clinic and the New England Center Hospital. † Professor of surgery, Tufts College Medical School ...

Pertinent clinical and hematologic data of the patients are presented in Table 1.Ten of the 12 patients were less than eight years of age. A number had a history of serious bacterial infections ...

Objective Developing a small animal model that accurately delineates the natural history of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and immunopathophysiology is necessary to clarify the mechanisms of ...

Objective A population of synovial inflammatory dendritic cells (infDCs) has recently been identified in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and is thought to be monocyte-derived. Here, we investigated the role ...