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Hepatitis Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . December 1st, 2003

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

Related Areas: Other Issues in Hepatitis Weekly | Other Publications

Endocrinology - Interferon improves insulin dynamics in chronic hepatitis B and C responders

Stem-Cell Research - Bone marrow-derived cells offer little hope for repairing damaged livers

Addiction Medicine - Methadone users need access to orthotopic liver transplantations

Pain Medicine - Patients with liver diseases report having upper abdominal pain symptoms

Transplantation - Where livers and kidneys are both needed liver transplants should be done first

Addiction Medicine - Patients with alcoholic etiologies fare worse in a study of steatohepatitis

Antisense Drugs - Company updates positive clinical data on multiple antisense drugs

Cancer Metastasis - Gene therapy containing p53 combines with CDDP to arrest liver tumor growth

Cancer Risk Factors - Hepatitis B virus genes promote liver cancer in chronic hepatitis C patients

Chronic Hepatitis C - Tissue regeneration may drive HCV recurrence after liver transplantation

Collaborations - Pennsylvania partnership announces agreement to build relationship with Roche

Fatty Liver Disease - Long-term rosiglitazone improves the markers of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

Finance - Actimmune maker announces third quarter financial results

Gastroenterology - Outcomes with hepatitis C- and B-core antibody-positive grafts are good

Hematopoietic Cell Transplant - Keeping DC immaturity may induce tolerance for transplant of hematopoietic cells

Hepatitis A Virus - New study finds universal vaccination would prevent disease and save lives

Hepatitis B Vaccine -  Aspergillus niger effective host for virus-like particle production

Hepatitis C Virus - Companies enter hepatitis C virus license agreement

Hepatitis C Virus - Pharmaceutical company to initiate phase III clinical trials for Viramidine

Hepatitis C Virus - Researchers reveal essential component of immunity to liver-destroying virus

Hepatitis Therapy - Nasal or rectal administration of glycyrrhizin offers good bioavailability

Hepatitis Virus - Interferon-alpha down-regulates collagen production and stems liver fibrosis

Inoperable Liver Cancer - Liver cirrhosis with inoperable liver cancer treated by intratumor ethanol, IL-2

Mergers and Acquisitions - Net Force signs letter of intent to acquire Chinese biotech company

Occupational Health - Healthcare workers experience a decline in blood and body fluid exposures

Oncology - Reactive oxygen species exacerbate the effects of hepatitis B virus X protein

Phytotherapy - Saikosaponins from Bupleurum exhibit antiviral and anticancer properties

Protein Processing - Hepatitis C virus core protein assembles in the nucleus of yeast

Transplant Medicine - Crystalline particles seen in University of Wisconsin perfusion solution

Transplantation - HCV recurrence reflects low sequence diversity after liver transplantation

Transplantation - Neither liver transplantation nor HCV contraindicate renal transplant

Viral Genomics - Alternative translation schemes control hepatitis C ARFP/F/core +1 coding

Viral Proteomics - Hepatitis C envelope glycoprotein E2 requires heparan sulfate for cell binding

Virology - Sodium stibogluconate inhibits authentic hepatitis C virus replication

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