Liver Pathophysiology Therapies and Antioxidants [Hardcover]

Liver Pathophysiology: Therapies and Antioxidants is a complete volume on morphology, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology and treatment of liver diseases. It uses an integral approach towards the role of free radicals in the pathogenesis of hepatic injury, and how their deleterious effects may be abrogated by the use of antioxidants.

Written by the most prominent authors in the field, this book will be of use to basic and clinical scientists and clinicians working in the biological sciences, especially those dedicated to the study and treatment of liver pathologies.

• Presents the most recent advances in hepatology, with a special focus on the role of oxidative stress in liver injury.
• Provides in vivo and in vitro models to study human liver pathology.
• Explains the beneficial effects of antioxidants on liver diseases.
• Contains the most recent and modern treatments of hepatic pathologies, including, but not limited to, stem cells repopulation, gene therapy and liver transplantation.

Section I. Introduction 1. The Liver: General Aspects and Epidemiology 2. Structure and Ultrastructure of the Normal and Diseased Liver

Section II. Liver Pathophysiology 3. Hepatic Apoptosis and Necrosis: Mechanisms and Clinical Relevance 4. Autoimmune Hepatitis 5. Pathogenesis of Idiosyncratic Drug Induced Liver Injury 6. Acetaminophen 7. Liver Regeneration 8. Nitric Oxide in Liver Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury 9. The Immune System and Viral Hepatitis 10. The Pathophysiology of Alcoholic Liver Disease 11. Cytokines in Steatohepatitis 12. Redox Signaling in NASH 13. Amebic Liver Abscess 14. Role of Cytokines and Reactive Oxygen Species in the Amebic Liver Abscess Produced by Entamoeba histolytica 15. Epigenetics in Liver Disease: Involvement oflE