Ascites and Renal Dysfunction in Liver Disease Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment docx

... ml x min -1 x mm Hg -1 x 100g -1 24 Chapter 2 kininogen to bradykinin, lysyl-bradykinin or methionyl- lysyl-bradykinin. Kinins are degraded by kininases (I and II). The kidney is rich in tissular ... important role for renin in the activity of the kallikrein–kinin system, since renin suppression is associated with reduction in urinary kallikrein and kinin excretion (173). Bradyki...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:20

... for detecting AKI, including two serum and three urine biomarkers: Serum neutrophil gelatinase lipocalin (sNGAL) and cystatin C, and urinary kidney injury molecule 1 (KIM-1), interleukin-18 (IL-18) ... creatinine, which is associated with many problems. Creatinine is a product of the metabolism of creatine, which is produced in the liver from three amino acids, methionine, arg...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... endotoxin level and hepatic endotoxin receptor (CD14) expression, resulting in increased inflammatory activity in the liver (Yin et al., 2000). The administration of ethanol in female rats induced ... fibrosis, and cirrhosis, to hepatocellular carcinoma. There have been major advances in our understanding of the liver, and a growing number of mechanisms underlying alcoho...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 16:20

... or unfavorable, depending on the disease. As a case in point, formation of huntingtin-containing inclusion bodies in Huntington’s disease encourages cell survival, whereas monomers and small inclusion bodies ... deficient in desmin, again demonstrating inclusion body construc- tion independent of intermediate fialments [62]. Inter- estingly, inclusion body formation is slowed by aB-c...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 18:20

... were germinated in November 1990 to provide seedlings for use in 1992 and 1993. In addition, plants of Q robur, Q petraea and Q cerris, pur- chased in root trainers, were ... between seedlings grown from seed or bought in root trainers. Each point is the mean of determinations for 2 petioles. Lines were fitted by linear regression using...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21