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Z-LLY-FMK Attenuates Intestinal Apoptosis After Bile Duct Ligation in Rats
Apoptosis is an important process in a wide variety of different biological systems. In addition to caspases, recently, calpains, another family of proteases, have been found to be involved in apoptosis of man...
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Combination of Adult Intussusception and Intestinal Malrotation: An Unusual Presentation
Intussusception is familiar to pediatric surgeons but is rarely encountered by general surgeons. Adult intussusception is uncommon, accounting for less than 5% of intestinal obstructions, half of which are ass...
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Z-LLY-FMK Can Attenuate Hepatocyte Apoptosis After Bile Duct Ligation in Rat
Background Cholestasis leading to retention and accumulation of toxic hydrophobic bile salts within hepatocytes may cause hepatocyte toxicity by inducing apoptosis. Calpains have been fou...
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Abdominal Carcinomatosis Attributed to Metastatic Breast Carcinoma
A 41-year-old female suffered from epigastralgia and intermittent constipation for 10 months, and abdominal fullness and intermittent pain for 6 months, before seeking help. Double contrast barium study of the...
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Extremely Elevated CA19-9 in Acute Cholangitis
A 68-year-old women was admitted with the chief complaints of epigastralgia with radiation to the back and jaundice. Fever and chills were also noted. The laboratory data showed alkaline phosphatase, 245 U/L (...
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The Effect of Insulin-like Growth Factor-I on Hepatocyte Apoptosis After Bile Duct Ligation in Rat
Obstructive jaundice may promote bacterial overgrowth and altered intestinal barrier function, with resultant increased translocation of endotoxin to the liver, amd thus may potentiate the phenomenon of hepato...
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Obstructive Jaundice Alters LFA-1α Expression in Rat Small Intestine
Translocation of bacteria and endotoxtin has long been documented in obstructive jaundice, and altered intestinal barrier function is considered to be one of the important mechanisms for this phenomenon. The r...
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Progesterone Receptor in Patients with Hepatolithiasis
Altered gallbladder motility by progesterone has been recognized as an important factor in the development of gallstones. There are two types of hepatolithiasis, that occurs de novo in the intrahepatic ducts with...