a Symposium in Honour of Dr. Dr. Herbert Falk on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by L. Bianchi, W. Gerok, H. Popper.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Dordrecht
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Netherlands
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1985
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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(224 pages)
CONTENTS NOTE
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Section 1 --;1 Bile acid research --;the past 60 years --;2 Bile acids in therapy --;pre-1924, circa 1924 and in 1984 --;3 Progress in understanding the mechanisms of organic anion uptake by the liver --;4 Biochemical pathways of transforming cholesterol --;5 Bile acid metabolism in hepatobiliary diseases --;6 Effect of female sex hormones on bile acids --;7 The gallbladder after endoscopic papillotomy --;8 Primary biliary cirrhosis: the present position --;Section 2 --;9 Synthetic hepatology --;10 Studies on the molecular basis of polymorphic drug oxidation (debrisoquine/sparteine-type) in man --;11 The role of tumour-promoting chemical in hepatocarcinogenesis --;12 Recent trends in studies of the pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy --;13 Urea synthesis and its enzymatic regulation --;14 Leukotrienes and liver injury --;15 Heterogeneous turnover of plasma membrane glycoproteins in the liver --;16 The structure of connexons in the open and closed state as revealed by rotary shadowed freeze-fracture replicas of rat hepatocyte gap junctions --;17 Insulin and liver disease: effect of proinsulin on hepatic carbohydrate metabolism --;Section 3 --;18 Wilson's disease --;19 Studies on the development of Mallory bodies --;20 Are constitutional factors and/or HLA phenotypes in males predisposing factors for alcoholic cirrhosis? --;21 New aspects of piecemeal necrosis --;22 The morphology of hepatitis A in man --;23 Epstein-Barr virus in chronic hepatitis.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This volume comprises a series of original articles, updates and reviews on relevant topics in hepatology which were presented at a meeting in Freiburg im Breisgau to honour the 60th anniversary of Dr. Herbert Falk.