News tagged with liver injury
Environmental pollution increases the risk of liver disease
A new study is the first to show that there is a previously unrecognized role for environmental pollution in liver disease in the general U.S. adult population. This work builds upon the groups' previous research demonstrating ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 29, 2009 |
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FDA group recommends acetaminophen liver warnings
(AP) -- A Food and Drug Administration report released Wednesday recommends stronger warnings and dose limits on drugs containing the painkiller acetaminophen, citing an increased risk of liver injury.
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 27, 2009 |
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Farnesoid X receptor regulates cystathionase
The expression and activity of Cystathionase is reduced in rodent models of liver injury, leading to hyper-homocysteinemia and impaired generation of hydrogen sulphide, two factors that contribute to endothelial dysfunction ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 13, 2009 |
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A novel method of isolating high quality RNA from Kupffer cells
Kupffer cells, resident tissue macrophages that line the liver sinusoids, play a key role in modulating inflammation in a number of experimental models of liver injury. Since Kupffer cells represent only a small portion of ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 17, 2009 |
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Stem cells crucial to diabetes cure in mice
More than five years ago, Dr. Lawrence C.B. Chan and colleagues in his Baylor College of Medicine laboratory cured mice with type 1 diabetes by using a gene to induce liver cells to make insulin.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 16, 2009 |
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