The enterohepatic recirculation of bile acids (BAs) is important in several physiological processes. Although there has been considerable research on liver regeneration after two-thirds partial hepatectomy (PHx), little is known about how the liver protects itself against BA toxicity during regeneration. In this study, various BAs in plasma and liver, the composition of micelle-forming bile con...

Heshouwu (HSW), the dry roots of Polygonum multiflorum, a classical traditional Chinese medicine is used as a tonic for a wide range of conditions, particularly those associated with aging. However, it tends to be taken overdose or long term in these years, which has resulted in liver damage reported in many countries. In this study, the indicative roles of nine bile acids (BAs) were evaluated ...

BACKGROUND De novo use of mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors after kidney transplantation is associated with a concentration-dependent incidence of wound healing adverse events (WHAE). The objective of this analysis was to compare the incidence of WHAE in patients receiving everolimus (EVR) or mycophenolate sodium (MPS). METHODS This was a predefined subanalysis of a single-center prosp...

In the absence of an ideal objective measure for assessing ankylosing spondylitis (AS), self-administered measures of disease activity (the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index, BASDAI) and function (the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index, BASFI) have been developed, in addition to an objective measure of spinal mobility (the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Metrology Index, ...

BACKGROUND Bronchial artery (BA) embolization (BAE) is recommended as a minimally invasive therapy for hemoptysis, though some patients recover after only conservative treatment. OBJECTIVES The purpose of our study was to assess the characteristics of BAs using multidetector row computed tomography (MDCT) and identify BAs requiring BAE without BA angiography (BAG). METHODS We retrospectivel...

It is known that 1) elevated serum bile acids (BAs) are associated with decreased body weight, 2) elevated glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) levels can decrease bodyweight, and 3) germ-free (GF)mice are resistant to diet-induced obesity. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that a lack of intestinal microbiota results in more BAs in the body, resulting in increased BA-mediated tra...

Minor Mountain Elohim, Feminine Face of Yahweh and Assyrian Apotropaic Fad. Some Remarks on the Margins of: Izaak J. de Hulster, Joel M. LeMon, Image, Text, Exegesis. Iconographic Interpretation Hebrew Bible (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015), pp. 336.

Objective Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is frequently associated with obesity, dyslipidemia and type-2 diabetes mellitus. Bile acids (BAs) bind to the farnesoid X receptor (FXR) and G protein-coupled receptor 5 (TGR5), which are involved in lipid and glucose metabolism and energy expenditure. The present study aimed to determine associations between the circulating BAs and the skele...

In their comparative review of H. J. Eysenck's arousal and J. A. Gray's reinforcement theories of personality, Matthews and Gilliland [(1999) Personality and Individual Di€erences, 26, 583±626] concluded that ``Cognitive constructs may be more appropriate than biological ones for explaining the majority of behaviours, so that explanations of the kind o€ered by the Eysenck and Gray theories are ...