Higher coffee consumption associated with lower liver cancer risk

kavin submitted, created time 4 months 3 weeks (esciencenews.com)

A new large, prospective population-based study confirms an inverse relationship between coffee consumption and liver cancer risk. The study also found that higher levels of gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) in the blood were associated with an increased risk of developing the disease. These findings are published in the July issue of Hepatology, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). The article and an accompanying editorial are also available online at Wiley Interscience (www.interscience.wiley.com)

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Study finds safer, more efficient medication for hepatitis B treatment

kavin submitted, created time 4 months 3 weeks (esciencenews.com)

Patients with hepatitis B who did not respond to lamivudine therapy had a better virological response after switching to entecavir for a year. Continuing the drug for an additional year led to even more clinical improvement without significant side effects, according to a new study in the July issue of Hepatology, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). The article is also available online at Wiley Interscience (www.interscience.wiley.com). Chronic hepatitis B is the tenth leading cause of death worldwide

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Drinking coffee seems to protect the liver

annatto submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.reutershealth.com)

Data from 10 studies conducted in Europe and Japan suggest that people who drink coffee may be reducing their risk of liver cancer, although the reasons for the apparent protective effect of coffee remain to be determined.

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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes in Egyptian pediatric cancer patients with acute and chronic active HBV infection

angelfish submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.virologyj.com)

"These findings show the distribution of HBV A-D genotypes in pediatric cancer Egyptian patients. Furthermore, their results indicate a markedly high prevalence of mixed A/D genotype infections in subjects with CAH and a possible association of mixed infections with the severity of liver diseases."

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Optimization of FDG-PET/CT imaging protocol for evaluation of patients with primary and metastatic liver disease

Cassidy submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.issoonline.com)

Delayed phase FDG-PET/CT protocol improved lesion detectability in primary and metastatic liver disease, revealing new lesions in 17% of the patients. Moreover, FDG-PET/CT identified extrahepatic disease not seen on CECT in 20% of the patients

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Engineering functional two- and three-dimensional liver systems in vivo using hepatic tissue sheets

bioman submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.nature.com)

Hepatic tissue engineering using primary hepatocytes has been considered a valuable new therapeutic modality for several classes of liver diseases. Recent progress in the development of clinically feasible liver tissue engineering approaches, however, has been hampered mainly by insufficient cell-to-cell contact of the engrafted hepatocytes. We developed a method to engineer a uniformly continuous sheet of hepatic tissue using isolated primary hepatocytes cultured on temperature-responsive surfaces.

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