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Hepatitis Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . April 17th, 2006

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

Related Areas: Other Issues in Hepatitis Weekly | Other Publications

Chronic Hepatitis C - Platelet activation in chronic hepatitis C is decreased by antiviral therapy

Hepatic Encephalopathy - Hepatic encephalopathy development predicted in severe acute hepatitis

Hepatitis B Vaccine - Hepatitis B vaccine design utilizes nanodecoy system for immunopotentiation

Hepatitis C Virus - Hepatitis C envelope 2 protein inhibits signaling for T-lymphocyte migration

Liver Fibrosis & HIV - Hepatitis B genotypes participate in liver fibrosis during coinfection with HIV

Asthma - Asthma hospitalizations increase with start of school and viral infections, study shows

Autoimmune Diseases - Type 1 autoimmune hepatitis is associated with antibodies to filamentous actin

Autoimmune Hepatitis - Autoimmune hepatitis features centrilobular necrosis

Avian Influenza - Managed transition would help mitigate risks in pandemic flu outbreak, expert says

Chronic Hepatitis - Chronic hepatitis Th1 response is related to ribavirin and interferon-alpha combination therapy

Chronic Hepatitis C - Chronic hepatitis B lamivudine retreatment is associated with an early virological response

Chronic Hepatitis C - Chronic hepatitis C treatment affects health-related quality of life

Clinical Trials - Coley Pharmaceutical Group announces top-line data from clinical study of Actilon for hepatitis C

Diagnostics - MedMira receives Middle East order for 10,000 MiraWell Rapid HIV Tests

Drug Development - Valeant reports VISER1 trial results confirm safety profile of oral Viramidine

Enzymology - New data illuminates research in enzymology

Epstein-Barr Virus - Primary Epstein-Barr virus infection is associated with T cells in hepatitis

Finance - IVAX Diagnostics reports record revenues in 2005

Finance - Medical Services sells 290,000 VScan test kits at an average price of US$2.30 in early 2006

Finance - XTL Biopharmaceuticals announces private placement agreement, 2005 financial results

Healthcare Coverage - Healthways, BCBS of Massachusetts extend, expand agreement under new, 5-year partnership

Helicobacter Pylori -  Helicobacter pylori infection is associated with chronic hepatitis C virus

Hepatitis B Virus - Chronic hepatitis B in children is treatable using immunomodulation therapy

Hepatitis B Virus - Hepatitis B surface and core antigen coinoculation promotes HIV-1 immune response

Hepatitis B Virus - Hepatitis B virus carriers display genotype and core promoter/pre-core mutations

Hepatitis B Virus - Phase II results show statistically significant decline in HBV DNA with pradefovir

Hepatitis C & HIV Coinfection - Hepatitis C virus coinfection is associated with decreased adherence to antiretroviral therapy

Hepatitis C Therapy - Lopinavir/ritonavir is not advised in HIV/hepatitis C virus-coinfection

Hepatitis C Therapy - Novelos Therapeutics files IND with U.S. FDA for novel hepatitis C drug

Hepatitis C Virus - Data advance knowledge in hepatitis C virus research

Hepatitis C Virus - Hepatitis C viremia identified by cut-off value of serum Ala aminotransferase

Hepatitis C Virus - Hepatitis C virus genotype can be determined by base pairs in NS5B region

Hepatitis C Virus - Hepatitis C virus replication is influenced by CXCL-8 and related mRNA stability

Hepatitis C Virus - High serum hepatitis C virus RNA load predicts the presence of HCV RNA in saliva

Hepatitis Therapy - Vancomycin selects for the separation of atropisomers of an anti-hepatitis drug

Hepatocellular Carcinoma - HCC apoptosis can be induced by a component from Scutellaria barbata

Hepatocellular Carcinoma - Hepatocellular carcinoma is correlated with interleukin-10 gene haplotype

Hepatotoxicity - Acute hepatotoxicity is ameliorated by curcumin

Liver Failure - Acute liver failure reflected by ratio of circulating follistatin and activin A

Liver Injury - Liver injury in HIV-infected patients can be associated with altered hepatic expression

Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis - Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis diet and morbid obesity model developed

Obesity Complications - Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease prevalent in obese youth, but severe NASH was uncommon

Patents - MedMira files patent for infectious disease over-the-counter testing system

Patents - Rigel granted key patents in immunology, virology, and oncology

Pediatric Obesity - Morbidly obese adolescents display a histologic spectrum of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Pharmaceutical Research - Rosuvastatin enhanced apoB degradation in insulin resistant and metabolic dyslipidemia model

Product Licensing - Idenix announces licensing of valopicitabine (NM283) by Novartis

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