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Liver

• Bacterial DNA activates cell mediated immune response and nitric oxide overproduction in peritoneal macrophages from patients with cirrhosis and ascites (11 May, 2004)

  R Francés, C Muñoz, P Zapater, F Uceda, I Gascón, S Pascual, M Pérez-Mateo, J Such
• Asymptomatic primary biliary cirrhosis: clinical features, prognosis, and symptom progression in a large population based cohort (11 May, 2004)

  M I Prince, A Chetwynd, W L Craig, J V Metcalf, O F W James
• Increased cancer risk in heavy drinkers with the alcohol dehydrogenase 1C*1 allele, possibly due to salivary acetaldehyde (11 May, 2004)

  J P Visapää, K Götte, M Benesova, J Li, N Homann, C Conradt, H Inoue, M Tisch, K Hörrmann, S Väkeväinen, M Salaspuro, H K Seitz
• Increased hepatic platelet activating factor (PAF) and PAF receptors in carbon tetrachloride induced liver cirrhosis (11 May, 2004)

  Y Yang, E M Nemoto, S A K Harvey, V M Subbotin, C R Gandhi
• Bone marrow engraftment in a rodent model of chemical carcinogenesis but no role in the histogenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma (11 May, 2004)

  H Ishikawa, K Nakao, K Matsumoto, D Nishimura, T Ichikawa, K Hamasaki, K Eguchi