Liver regeneration in fulminant hepatitis as evaluated by serum transforming growth factor α levels

Hepatology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 253-257

  Tomiya, Tomoaki ^a   Fujiwara, Kenji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; GLUCAGON; INSULIN; SCATTER FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; LIVER REGENERATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030042425     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhep.1996.v23.pm0008591849     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Fausto N, Mead JE. Regulation of liver growth: protooncogenes and transforming growth factors. Lab Invest 1989;60:4-13.
2. Michalopoulos G. Liver regeneration: molecular mechanisms of growth control. FASEB J 1990;4:176-187.
3. Steer CJ. Hepatic regeneration and growth regulation: therapeutic possibilities. In: AASLD Postgraduate Course; New and evolving therapies for hepatic and biliary diseases. St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book, 1993:89-112.
4. Derynck R. Transforming growth factor. Cell 1988;54:593-595.
5. Massague J. Transforming growth factor-α: a model for membrane-anchored growth factors. J Biol Chem 1990;265:21393-21396.
6. Marquardt H, Hunkapiller MW, Hood LE, Twardzik DR, DeLarco JE, Stephenson JR, Todaro G J. Transforming growth factors produced by retrovirus-transformed rodent fibroblast and human melanoma cells: amino acid sequence homology with epidermal growth factor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1983;80:4684-4688.
7. Massague J. Epidermal growth factor-like transforming growth factor. II. Interaction with epidermal growth factor receptors on human placenta membrane and A431 cells. J Biol Chem 1983;258:13614-13620.
8. Marquardt H, Hunkapiller MW, Hood LE, Todaro GJ. Rat transforming growth factor type I: structure and relation to epidermal growth factor. Science 1984;223:1079-1082.
9. Mead JE, Fausto N. Transforming growth factor α may be a physiological regulator of liver regeneration by means of an auto-crine mechanism. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989;86:1558-1562.
10. Webber EM, FitzGerald MJ, Brown PI, Bartlett MH, Fausto N. Transforming growth factor-α expression during liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy and toxic injury, and potential interactions between transforming growth factor-α and hepatocyte growth factor. HEPATOLOGY 1993;18:1422-1431.
11. Jhappan C, Stahle C, Harkins RN, Fausto N, Smith GH, Merlino GT. TGF α overexpression in transgenic mice induces liver neoplasia and abnormal development of the mammary gland and pancreas. Cell 1990;61:1137-1146.
12. Tomiya T, Fujiwara K. Serum levels of transforming growth factor-α in patients after partial hepatectomy as determined with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. HEPATOLOGY 1993;18:304-308.
13. Rusell WE, Dempsey PJ, Sitaric S, Peck AJ, Coffey RJ Jr. Transforming growth factor-α (TGFα) concentrations increase in regenerating rat liver: evidence for a delayed accumulation of murine TGFα. Endocrinology 1993;133:1731-1738.
14. Wolf HK, Michalopoulos GK. Hepatocyte regeneration in acute fulminant and nonfulminant hepatitis: a study of proliferating cell nuclear antigen expression. HEPATOLOGY 1992;15:707-713.
15. O'Grady JG, Portmann B, Williams R. Fulminant hepatic failure. In: Schiff L, Schiff ER, eds. Diseases of the liver. Vol 2, Ed 7. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1993:1077-1090.
16. Trey C, Lipworth L, Chalmers TC, Davidson CS, Gottlieb LS, Popper H, Saunders SJ. Fulminant hepatic failure: presumable contribution of halothane. N Engl J Med 1968;279:798-801.
17. Horney JT, Galambos JT. The liver during and after fulminant hepatitis. Gastroenterology 1977;73:639-645.
18. Tygstrup N. Fulminant hepatic failure. Semin Liver Dis 1986;6:137-145.
19. Michalopoulos GK, Zarnegar R. Hepatocyte growth factor. HEPATOLOGY 1992;15:149-155.