Background In recent years noninvasive methods have been evaluated for the assessment
of liver fibrosis predominantly in patients with viral hepatitis. In this study, transient …

… 54 Huët PM, Huët J, Deslauriers J: Portal hypertension in patients with primary biliary
cirrhosis; in Lindor KD, Heathcote EJ, Poupon R (eds): Primary Biliary Cirrhosis: From Patho…

The US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has become a focal point of enforcement efforts of the
US Department of Justice and US Securities and Exchange Commission, as witnessed by …

The steady increase in cooperation and information sharing among governments is a trend
commonly noted in discussions of current anticorruption enforcement.'There is no shortage of …

Objective. The 13 C-methacetin breath test quantitatively evaluates cytochrome P450-dependent
liver function. The 13 C-galactose breath test non-invasively measures the galactose …

Objectives In 30% of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA)
causes full biochemical normalization, while 70% are incomplete responders. The only …

A 22-year-old man without pre-existing medical conditions presented to our hospital with a
progressive reduction of his physical overall performance, muscle weakness of the extremities…

… The V-KAPPA (IGKV-J) repertoire and apparently also the V-LAMBDA (IGLV-J) repertoire,
are also restricted. Diversification of the pre-immune B cell repertoire of swine and the ability …

Sensitivity and response of northern hemisphere altitudinal and polar treelines to
environmental change at landscape and local scales - Holtmeier - 2005 - Global Ecology and …

… For each clone, g j, good and g j, poor were measured … Because there was variation among
clones in g j, good (… in g j on poor food relative to that on good food: R=(g j, good −g j, poor )/g …