Gut-Liver Interactions: Basic and Clinical Concepts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

Av R. Blumberg, A. Gangl, M. P. Manns, H. Tilg, M. Zeitz, M P Manns

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The main focus of the book is to highlight the role of the immune system in gut and liver diseases and potential interactions of the gut and the liver respectively.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2005-11-15
Mått155 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt607 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieFalk Symposium
Antal sidor302
FörlagSpringer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN9781402041433

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Genetics and immunology in inflammatory bowel diseases.- Inflammatory bowel disease genotypes and phenotypes.- Abnormalities of cytokine regulation in the inflammatory bowel diseases.- Dendritic cells — key players in inflammatory bowel disease.- Lipids and inflammatory bowel disease: microsomal triglyceride transfer protein — the new dimension?.- The intestinal epithelium and inflammatory bowel disease.- Evidence-based treatment in inflammatory bowel diseases.- Evidence-based therapy with aminosalicylates.- The practical use of steroids in inflammatory bowel disease.- Immunosuppressants: clinical use and molecular mechanism of action.- Biologicals: old and new ones.- Difficult cases in inflammatory bowel diseases.- Management of extraintestinal disease in inflammatory bowel disease.- Innate immunity — microbial products.- Immunomodulatory properties of the gut microflora.- Defensins and other antimicrobial mediators.- Post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome: role of inflammation and gut flora.- Gut-liver interactions — basic and clinical aspects.- The liver and its contribution to induction of oral tolerance.- Molecular regulation of lymphocyte homing between the liver and the gut.- Modern concepts of coeliac disease pathogenesis.- Hepatobiliary manifestations in inflammatory bowel disease.- Primary biliar cirrhosis, cholestasis and autoimmune liver disease.- Primary biliary cirrhosis and biliary destruction: 2005; a liver odyssey.- Primary biliary cirrhosis: clinical aspects.- Molecular mechanisms of cholestasis.- Primary sclerosing cholangitis, alcoholic steatohepatitis, non-alchoholic steatohepatitis.- Basic concepts in primary sclerosing cholangitis — what can we learn from studies of its genetic basis.- Clinical concepts in primary sclerosingcholangitis.- Alcoholic liver diseases.- Should non-alcoholic fatty liver disease be treated differently in elderly patients?.- Liver failure and transplantation.- Acute liver failure — mechanisms of liver cell destruction.- Clinical management of acute liver failure.- Liver and bowel transplantation in 2005.- Established and novel methods for treating inflammatory diseases by inhibition of cytokines.