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Liver and biliary disease

• Association between severity of type A hepatitis and nucleotide variations in the 5` non-translated region of hepatitis A virus RNA: strains from fulminant hepatitis have fewer nucleotide substitutions (1 July, 2002)

  K Fujiwara, O Yokosuka, T Ehata, H Saisho, N Saotome, K Suzuki, K Okita, K Kiyosawa, M Omata
• Effect of weight reduction on liver histology and biochemistry in patients with chronic hepatitis C (1 July, 2002)

  I J Hickman, A D Clouston, G A Macdonald, D M Purdie, J B Prins, S Ash, J R Jonsson, E E Powell
• Acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in chronic carriers of hepatitis B virus (HBV): the impact of underlying active HBV replication on persistence of HCV infection and antibody responses to HCV (1 July, 2002)

  C-M Chu, C T Yeh, I S Sheen, Y F Liaw
• Augmentation effect of postprandial hyperinsulinaemia on growth of human hepatocellular carcinoma (1 July, 2002)

  K Saito, S Inoue, T Saito, S Kiso, N Ito, S Tamura, H Watanabe, H Takeda, H Misawa, H Togashi, Y Matsuzawa, S Kawata
• Prospective comparative study of spiral computer tomography and magnetic resonance imaging for detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (1 July, 2002)

  J Stoker, M G Romijn, R A de Man, J T Brouwer, G J Weverling, J M van Muiswinkel, P E Zondervan, J S Laméris, J N M Ijzermans
• Underdiagnosis of hereditary haemochromatosis: lack of presentation or penetration? (1 July, 2002)

  E Ryan, V Byrnes, B Coughlan, A-M Flanagan, S Barrett, J C O'Keane, J Crowe
• Hepatoprotection with tauroursodeoxycholate and β muricholate against taurolithocholate induced cholestasis: involvement of signal transduction pathways (1 July, 2002)

  P Milkiewicz, M G Roma, E Elias, R Coleman
• High frequency of autoantibodies in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis that bind biliary epithelial cells and induce expression of CD44 and production of interleukin 6 (1 July, 2002)

  B Xu, U Broome, B-G Ericzon, S Sumitran-Holgersson