PubMed · 177254
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W D Strohm. 1976. [Laboratory diagnostic differences between hepatitis A and hepatitis B].. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0028-1104113
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Hepatocyte-directed production of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) in transgenic mice is hepatotoxic. Infrequently, hepatocytes arise that do not express uPA, due to physical loss of transgene DNA, and these cells clonally repopulate the entire liver within 3 months of birth. Surprisingly, hepatic tumors appear in these mice beginning at 8 months of age despite the fact that uPA is not oncogenic or genotoxic. Analysis of the transgene locus reveals that tumors arise only from a particular subclass of transgene-deficient cells in which the entire transgene array, and possibly a significant amount of flanking DNA, is deleted. Considering that all transgene-deficient regenerative nodules undergo extensive replication but only a subset gives rise to tumors, we propose that loss of genomic DNA, not mitogenesis per se, is a primary carcinogenic determinant in this model of hepatocarcinogenesis.
We previously identified two hypervariable regions [HVR1 (27 amino acids) and HVR2 (7 amino acids)] in the putative envelope glycoprotein (gp70) by comparison of the amino acid sequences of many isolates of the HCV-II genotype. To understand the functional features of these HVRs, using the polymerase chain reaction we analyzed the rate of actual sequence variability in the region including HVR1 and HVR2 of HCV isolated successively at intervals of several months from two patients with chronic C-type hepatitis. In both patients, the amino acid sequence of HVR1, but not HVR2, was found to change dramatically during the observation period (about one amino acid per month). However, no alteration of the amino acid sequence of HVR1 of HCV was observed in a patient in the acute phase of chronic hepatitis. Restriction digestion analysis of sequence diversity showed that a HCV genome with a newly introduced mutation in HVR1 often became the predominant population at the next time of examination. Alterations of amino acids in HVR1 occurred sequentially in the two patients in the chronic phase. These findings suggest that mutations in HVR1 are involved in the mechanism of persistent chronic HCV infection.
Individual serum bile acids (SBA) are emerging as potentially useful early indicators of liver injury. This study was undertaken to compare the usefulness of individual SBA with the routinely used assays for detecting the effects of the hepatotoxicants carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) and chloroform (CHCl3). Serum samples were assayed for liver injury by determination of alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate amino-transferase (AST), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), bilirubin and total bile acid (by enzymatic kit). These results were compared with levels of individual SBA measured by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Liver samples from CCl4-treated rats were taken for light and electron microscopic examination. The highest dose for each chemical caused increases in serum ALT and AST but not ALP. Chloroform at the highest dose increased bilirubin. Total SBA levels as assayed by the kit were elevated in response to CCl4 and CHCl3 at doses below which serum enzymes and bilirubin were increased. Some individual SBA were increased at a still lower dose for each of these two chlorinated solvents. At the lowest dose of CCl4 tested no consistent light microscopic or ultrastructural changes were found. At all the higher doses periacinar cells displayed typical accumulation of lipid droplets and degranulation and dilation of rough endoplasmic reticulum. The extent of the ultrastructural changes were dose-dependent. Thus individual SBA assayed by HPLC may be considered as a very sensitive indicator of liver injury induced by the classical hepatotoxicants carbon tetrachloride and chloroform.