edited by David I.N. Sherman, Victor R. Preedy and Ronald Ross Watson.
New York :
Taylor & Francis,
2002.
1 online resource (xxiii, 689 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Biographies; Specific lesions; 1 Alcoholic fatty liver; 2 Alcoholic hepatitis; 3 Fibrosis in alcoholic cirrhosis; 4 Genetics of ethanol metabolism and alcoholic liver disease; 5 Acetaldehyde adducts role in ethanol induced liver disease; 6 Free radicals and alcohol induced liver injury; 7 Ethanol and the hepatic microcirculation; 8 Cytokines and alcohol liver disease; 9 Adhesion molecules and chemokines in alcoholic liver disease; 10 Role of endotoxin and Kupffer cells as triggers of hypoxia reoxygenation in alcoholic liver injury.
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An in-depth look at the effects of alcohol and liver pathologies in general this book will be of interest to both scientists and clinicians involoved in systemic toxicology.