liver failure, in an acute or chronic form, is a growing health problem ranking as one of the leading causes of death worldwide. inborn errors of metabolism characterized by defects in hepatic enzymes or other proteins with metabolic functions, such as receptors or transporters accompanied with environmental factors involve etiology and presentation of liver failure. currently, the only establi...

MicroRNAs has been shown to regulate lipogenesis in liver. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the effects of resveratrol (RSV) on lipogenesis is associated with the changes in the expression of two miRNAs (miR-107 and miR-10b) that regulate lipogenic pathways. 30 wild type C57BL/6j male mice were randomly fed three diets: a standard chow diet (ND), a high fat diet (HFD, 60%...

A captive adult common mynah (Acridotheres tristis) died shortly after a course of seizure and opisthotonous with an illness characterized by severe lethargy, depression, loss of appetite, polyurate, and urate discoloration. Abdominal distention and hepatomegly, visible over the abdominal skin, were noticed clinically. At necropsy, severe enlargement of liver with general discoloration was obvi...

Objective(s): Mesenchyme is a type of undifferentiated loose connective tissue that is derived mostly from mesoderm. Recently, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), as adult stem cells (ASCs) able to divide into a variety of different cells, are of utmost importance for stem cell research. In this research, ability of the liver extract to induce differentiation of rat derived omentum tissue mesenchyma...

In article number 2007425, Junmin Lee, Ali Khademhosseini, and co-workers present a breakthrough for modeling of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) based on bioengineered multicellular microtissues liver-on-a-chip system. The consisting four major cell types (primary human hepatocytes, stellate cells, Kupffer endothelial cells) recapitulate the pathogenesis hepatic fibrosis driven by NAF...

results of 45 patients, 4 (8.9% [95% ci: 4.4-15.6]) had detectable genomic hcv-rna in their pbmc specimens. hcv genotypes were determined in the pbmcs of these subjects showed that 2 (50.0%) subjects with occult hcv infection had hcv subtype 3a, and 2 (50.0%) had hcv subtype 1b. conclusions this study found that 8.9 % of the iranian candidates for liver transplant with cryptogenic cirrhosis had...

background and objectives: multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. this is due to migration of peripherally activated lymphocytes to central nervous system leading to inflammatory lesions. however, liver has an anti-inflammatory microenvironment. myelin expression in the liver of transgenic mice suppresses inflammatory lesions within central nervous system. ...

background: the use of stem cells is considered as an appropriate source in cell therapy and tissue engineering. differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hipscs) to hepatocyte-like cells (hlcs) on mouse embryonic fibroblasts (mefs) feeders is confronted with several problems that hinder the clinical applications of these differentiated cells for the treatment of liver injuries. ...