| Description |
1 online resource (917 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Liver Pathophysiology; Liver Pathophysiology: Therapies and Antioxidants; Copyright; Dedication; Hepatic Cirrhosis; CIRROSIS HEPATICA; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; I -- Introduction; 1 -- The Liver: General Aspects and Epidemiology; ABBREVIATED HISTORY OF HEPATOLOGY; LIVER ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY; Liver Anatomy; Bile Ducts; Blood Vessels; LIVER CELLS; The Hepatocyte and the Regenerative Capacity of the Liver; Pit Cells Exert Antitumor Functions; LSECs Play a Prominent Role in Homeostasis; KCs Are the First Line of Defense of the Organism |
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HSCs Are the Main Executors in FibrogenesisLIVER ZONATION ALLOWS FUNCTIONAL PLASTICITY; Regulation of Zonation of the Liver; Metabolic Zonal Functions; GLOBAL LIVER EPIDEMIOLOGY; Hepatocellular Carcinoma Epidemiology; Risk Factors That May Lead to HCC; Hepatitis B Virus; HCV Is a Major Risk Factor for HCC Development; Ethanol Abuse Is Associated to HCC; Aflatoxin Is a Potent Carcinogen; Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Can Progress to Cirrhosis and HCC; Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Is an Independent Risk Factor for HCC; Tobacco Smoking Increases the Risk of Mortality in Patients With HCC |
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Alcohol Liver Disease EpidemiologyRisk Factors for ALD; Epidemiology of NAFLD and NASH; Risk Factors for NAFLD and NASH; Chronic HCV Epidemiology; Risk Factors for Chronic HCV; Epidemiology of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis; Risk Factors for PBC; Epidemiology of Drug-Induced Liver Injury; Intrinsic DILI; Idiosyncratic DILI; Epidemiology of Liver Abscess; Risk Factors for LA; Concluding Remarks; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; 2 -- Structure and Ultrastructure of the Normal and Diseased Liver; INTRODUCTION; NORMAL LIVER CELL TYPES; Parenchymal Cells; Hepatocytes; Nonparenchymal Cells; Endothelial Cells |
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Kupffer Cells (Macrophages)Stellate Cells; Cholangiocytes; Pit Cells; PATHOLOGY OF THE DISEASED LIVER; Acute Viral Hepatitis; Hepatitis A; Hepatitis B; Hepatitis C; Steatosis and Steatohepatitis; Steatosis; Steatohepatitis, Nonalcoholic and Alcoholic; Chronic Hepatitis; Chronic Hepatitis B; Chronic Hepatitis C; Autoimmune Hepatitis; Cirrhosis; Liver Neoplasms; Liver Cell Adenoma; Focal Nodular Hyperplasia; Nodular Regenerative Hyperplasia; Hemangioma; Malignant Lesions; Precursors of Hepatocellular Carcinoma; Hepatocellular Carcinoma; Fibrolamellar Carcinoma |
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Bile Duct Carcinoma (Cholangiocarcinoma)CONCLUDING REMARKS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; FURTHER READING; II -- Liver Pathophysiology; 3 -- Hepatic Apoptosis and Necrosis: Mechanisms and Clinical Relevance; INTRODUCTION OF HEPATIC INJURY; APOPTOSIS AND NECROSIS; Apoptosis; Necrosis; MECHANISM OF LIVER INJURY AND DISEASE RELEVANCE; Chronic Viral Hepatitis; The Cytopathic Effects Mediated by Immune Response in Viral Hepatitis; The Direct Cytopathic Effects of Viruses; Alcohol Liver Disease; Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; Drug-Induced Liver Injury; Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
| Notes |
THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES FOR LIVER INJURY |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Liver -- Pathophysiology
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Liver Diseases -- physiopathology
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Liver Diseases -- therapy
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Antioxidants -- therapeutic use
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Liver -- physiopathology
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Liver -- Pathophysiology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016960462 |
| ISBN |
9780128043219 |
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0128043210 |
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