the 24 maltiparous holstein dairy cows were allocated in a completely randomized design to study the effects of different level and source of sulfur supplement in close-up diets on blood metabolites, colostrums composition and liver performance. the mean body weight of the cows was 687.9 kg and the mean days until expected calving date was 21.8 d. the first treatment (t1) has contained 0.21% su...

background: alcoholic mothers who consume ethanol give birth to infants with high percentage of hepatic diseases. alcohol can cause cellular damage in different tissues, including liver. finding a drug which is effective and efficient in reducing ethanol misuse consequences during pregnancy can assist the decrease of harmful effects of this habit. objective: this research aims to study the effe...

Two emaciated common loons (Gavia immer) were believed to have died of lead poisoning when fragments of fishing lines and lead sinkers were discovered in their stomachs. Later a third emaciated loon, which had only the remnants of fishing line in its stomach, was suspected of being a possible lead-poisoning victim when all other test results were negative. The liver lead levels in the first two...

Recently four phases CT has been widely used for diagnosing liver diseases, especially cancer. This paper describes an automatic method for segmenting the liver region from third phase abdominal CT. First, blood vessels in the liver are extracted with a threshold. Then morphological dilation enables us to define an approximate liver region, which is found to be very useful for removing abutting...

Tamoxifen administered in the diet (420 ppm) to Wistar rats (TOX:P) for only 3 months caused cumulative hepatic DNA damage as assessed by 32P-postlabeling, consistent with the proposal that tamoxifen is a genotoxic carcinogen in this species. Promotion of tumor development with phenobarbital after discontinuation of dietary tamoxifen resulted in the formation of liver carcinomas after 9 months....

With the rapid progress of CT (Computed Tomography) scanners, four-phase CT images with resolutions as high as 1 mm have started to be used for diagnosing liver diseases. The first-, second-, third-, and fourth-phase CT images correspond to before dye injection, the early stage, the full stage, and the wash-out stage of the injected dye. Such CT data offer useful information for diagnosing hepa...

Background Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, with the majority of clinical cases arising as a result of the wound-healing response to chronic liver injury known as hepatic fibrosis. If left untreated, the condition progresses to the state of cirrhosis with severe complications of end-stage liver disease including HCC. When HCC arises un...

OBJECTIVE To document novel homozygous mutations in the gene for deoxyguanosine kinase (DGK) in 3 children with mitochondrial DNA depletion. DESIGN Clinical features included liver failure, hypotonia, and nystagmus in 2 siblings, and liver cirrhosis, optic dysplasia, nystagmus, and microcephaly in the third patient. We sequenced the whole coding region of the DGK gene. RESULTS We identified...

conclusions elevation of liver enzymes appears in 29 % obese children in a tertiary care centre. absolute alanine aminotransferase levels are significantly higher in obese than in overweight children. even obese children with normal liver enzymes show signs of fatty liver disease as demonstrated by liver enzymes at the upper limit of normal. results elevated alanine aminotransferase was observe...