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Hepatitis Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . October 10th, 2005

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

Related Areas: Other Issues in Hepatitis Weekly | Other Publications

Chronic Hepatitis C - Peginterferon alpha dosing strategies beat persistent hepatitis C

Diagnostics - A new rapid test for hepatitis E enhances point-of-care testing

Diagnostics - Combination assay improves early detection of hepatitis C virus infection

Diagnostics - Plasma chemokine levels predict hepatitis C response to antiviral therapy

Oncology - Interferon limits genetic instability in livers infected with hepatitis C

Adverse Drug Reaction - Combination therapy containing pegylated interferon produces weight loss

Allergy & Immunology - Antibody to transglutaminase denotes the presence of chronic liver diseases

Autoimmune Hepatitis - Inadequate regulatory T-cell activity may initiate liver injury

Biomedical Engineering - Spheroid reservoir bioartificial liver rapidly produces hepatocyte spheroids

Cancer Prevention - Interferon-alpha lowers proliferative activity in hepatitis C-infected livers

Chronic Hepatitis B - Hepatitis B virus genotype C mutations accompany poor liver histology

Diagnostics - Reports advance knowledge in diagnostics research

Chronic Liver Disease - Bacterial pathogens may be involved in the onset of primary biliary cirrhosis

Chronic Liver Disease - Response to corticosteroid hails good outcomes in severe alcoholic hepatitis

Diagnostics - Data advance knowledge in diagnostics research

Diagnostics - Degenerate primers pinpoint multiple genotypes of woodchuck hepatitis virus

Diagnostics - Dipstick assay offers visual detection of multiple nucleic acid amplicons

Diagnostics - Fine-needle-aspiration biopsies ease the study of liver lymphocytes

Drug Development - Intellectual property licensed for MicroRNA gene involved in hepatitis C

Enzymology - Enzyme wanes in peripheral lymphocytes of patients with viral hepatitis

Enzymology - Hepatitis C virus NS2/3 processing is critical for replication

Finance - Immunotherapy company raises more than $34M in series B financing

Head & Neck Cancers - Lamivudine averts recurrent hepatitis B in patients with nasopharyngeal cancer

Hepatitis B Virus - Telbivudine has the potential to treat patients with chronic hepatitis B

Hepatitis C Therapy - Hepatitis C genotype 3 infection warrants longer treatment regimens

Hepatitis C Therapy - Virology at 12 weeks marks hepatitis C response to pegylated interferon alpha

Hepatitis C Vaccine Development - Hepatitis C virus-host interactions examined

Hepatitis C Virus - Biotech company announces research collaboration with medical college

Hepatitis C Virus - Pegasys plus Ribavirin awarded priority review status by Japanese agency

Hepatitis C Virus - Renin-angiotensin system polymorphisms are not linked to HCV-related fibrosis

Hepatitis C Virus - Therapy elicits changes in liver metallothionein in chronic hepatitis C

Patents - U.S. patent granted covering therapeutic products to treat hepatitis B virus

Stem Cell Research - Fetal liver stem cells are converted into insulin-producing cells

Stem Cell Research - UCB SCs generate cytokeratin 18-negative hepatocyte-like cells in injured liver

Tissue Engineering - Tissue-engineered patch reconstructs inferior vena cava during liver transplant

Transplant Medicine - Whole fetal liver transplantation is an approach to cell therapy

Virology - Hepatitis B core promoter mutations intensify liver disease

Virology - Viral load is valuable for assessing patient response to hepatitis C therapy

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