Recent studies conducted at Marshall University have demonstrated that nanoparticles of cerium oxide - common diesel fuel additives used to increase the fuel efficiency of automobile engines - can travel from the lungs to the liver and that this process is associated with liver damage. The data in the study by Dr. Eric R…

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The full study of a new research indicating that Saffron has a significant chemopreventive effect against liver cancer in animals is published in the September issue of Hepatology, a journal published by Wiley Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases…

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Vitamin E has been shown effective in treating nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), an obesity-associated chronic liver disease that can lead to cirrhosis, liver cancer, and death. NASH also is related to or a part of type 2 diabetes, lipid disorders and cardiovascular disease…

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In an NIH-funded study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, research found that daily vitamin E improved the livers of patients who have a type of liver disease known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). The study results are welcome findings because there are currently no approved treatments for the disease, says a Saint Louis University researcher on the project…

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HEPATOLOGY: A new regulator in the liver: miR15a controls the development of cysts Polycystic liver and kidney diseases are a family of disorders that are characterized by a range of symptoms. For example, individuals with ADPKD have multiple cysts in both their liver and their kidneys, whereas individuals with ARPKD usually only have cysts in their kidneys (although cysts can develop in the liver later in life) and individuals with ADPLD only have cysts in their liver.
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