many herbaceous plants contain compounds that have biological effects in addition to their medicinal properties. they have compounds with numerous properties, including hypo lipidemic, hypoglycemic, antioxidant, and hepato protective ones, which have been analyzed at different levels. one of these plants, with the scientific name of berberis vulgaris, is barberry. the most important compounds i...

Liver is considered to be one of the vital organs which helps in maintaining the health of body. Yakrit (liver) is being described right from the vedic period. Modern lifestyles can overstress the liver and make it malfunctioning. No significant and safe hepato-protective drugs are available in modern therapeutics. The nature has bestowed some plants with the property to prevent, treat and cure...

EDITORIAL article Front. Oncol., 10 July 2023Sec. Gastrointestinal Cancers: Hepato Pancreatic Biliary Cancers Volume 13 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2023.1248807

We report a 54-year-old patient with the association of hepatic dysfunction with cyanosis, severe hypoxemia, platypnea-orthodeoxia, diffuse cutaneous spider nevi, telangiectasia, palmar erythema, digital clubbing and findings of marked intrapulmonary vascular dilation and arterovenous shunt. The diagnosis of hepato-pulmonary-cutaneous syndrome, a term we think more appropriate and inclusive tha...

objective: liver is an important organ that is exposed to many oxidant and carcinogenic agents, thus antioxidant compounds are beneficial for liver health. artemisia contains flavonoid compounds and anti-diabetic, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory properties. due to possessing terpene and sesquiterpene compounds, this plant has antioxidant properties. this study was done to investigate the eff...

Editor’s key points † Abnormal liver function test results are common among intensive care unit patients with traumatic brain injury. † This often occurs in the absence of any pre-existing liver dysfunction. † Hepato-biliary ultrasound scans are frequently requested to exclude treatable causes. † The authors assessed the diagnostic yield of scans performed for this reason. Background. This stud...

We used a commercial enzymatic kit for measuring 7 alpha-hydroxylated bile acids to screen urines from normal subjects, liver-transplant recipients, and patients with various liver diseases, cerebro-hepato-renal syndrome, or cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX). Because of their high concentrations of 7 alpha-hydroxylated compounds excreted, the CTX patients were clearly distinguished from all ...