Guadalupe Ercilla

TL;DR: The results indicate that HCV infection may have a role in the pathogenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma, even in patients with chronic liver disease apparently related to other agents such as alcohol, and that this recently identified hepatitis virus may be found in a large proportion of patients with cryptogenic cirrhosis.

TL;DR: The prevalence of hepatitis C virus antibody and its relationship to the severity of liver disease in chronic alcoholic patients has been assessed, using a recently developed enzyme immunoassay and confirmed by a recombinant immunoblot assay.

TL;DR: C cultured human HSCs express membrane proteins involved in antigen presentation, including members of the HLA family (HLA‐I and HLA‐II), lipid‐presenting molecules (CD1b and CD1c), and factors involved in T‐cell activation (CD40 and CD80) and modulate T‐lymphocyte proliferation.

TL;DR: The association of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) to HLA class II genes was studied by comparing patients from five different European populations and PSC was found to be positively associated to three different HLAclass II haplotypes.

TL;DR: The presence of IRC in patients with TA suggests an autoimmune reaction directed against an antigenic substance that resides in the arterial wall and is presented and processed in situ, and Corticosteroids do not modify cellular distribution but induce important functional changes, as demonstrated by the disappearance of interleukin-2 receptor expression in patients treated for more than 4 days.