Gut flora and bacterial translocation (BT) play important roles in the pathogenesis of chronic
liver disease, including cirrhosis and its complications. Intestinal bacterial overgrowth and …

Patients with rare diseases are a major challenge for healthcare systems. These patients
face three major obstacles: late diagnosis and misdiagnosis, lack of proper response to …

Adropin is a peptide hormone, which plays a role in energy homeostasis and controls
glucose and fatty acid metabolism. Its levels correlate with changes in carbohydrate‐lipid …

The term acute liver failure (ALF) is frequently applied as a generic expression to describe
patients presenting with or developing an acute episode of liver dysfunction. In the context of …

Leptin-deficient ob/ob mice are overweight, develop insulin resistance, and serve as a model
for type 2 diabetes (T2D). Studies suggest that inflammatory pathways are linked to the …

BACKGROUND/AIMS: We have investigated the role of natural killer (NK) cells in hepatic
fibrogenesis. Mouse NK cells express both inhibitory/activating-killing-immunoglobulin-related-…

Background: The pathogenesis of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is associated
with a defective host antiviral immune response and intrahepatic oxidative stress. Oxidative …

… Kogan, Jacob MD; Safadi, Rifat MD; Ashur, Yaffa MD; Shouval, Daniel MD; Ilan, Yaron
MD … Yaron Ilan, Liver Unit, Department of Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital PO …

Recipients of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation are pancytopenic for several weeks
and immunosuppressed for many months as a result of myeloablative therapy required to …

Introduction Diuretics are a mainstay therapy for congestive heart failure (CHF); however, over
one-third of patients develop diuretic resistance. Second-generation artificial intelligence (…