Hepatocyte and Kupffer Cell Interactions

Billiar; Timothy R. Pittsburgh, PA,Curran; Ronald D. ,

The Normal Liver: The Origin of Kupffer Cells and Their Anatomic Relationship to Hepatocytes (L. Bouwens and E. Wisse). Modes of Communication between Kupffer Cells and Hepatocytes Under Normal and Pathological Conditions (T.C. Peterson). Experimental Models for Studying the Interaction of Kupffer Cells and Hepatocytes (B.G. Harbrecht, T.R. Billiar, and R.D. Curran). Nonseptic pathologic States: Antitumor Defense System of the Liver (S.-P. Tzung and S.A. Cohen). Alcohol-Induced Liver Disease (S.N. Wickremasinghe). Viral Infections and Hepatitis (D. Vetter, A. Kirn, and J.-P. Gut). Role of Macrophages and Endothelial Cells in Hepatotoxicity (D.L. Laskin). Liver Alloimmunity (G.L. Bumgardner and P. S. Almond). Nonparenchymal Cell and Hepatocyte Interaction in Antimalarial Activity: A Central Role for Nitric Oxide (A.K. Nussler). The Liver in Sepsis: Regulation of Kupffer Cell Activation (M.A. West and M.L. Heaney). The Role of Kupffer Cells in Control of Acute Phase Protein Synthesis (P.H. Kispert). The Changes in Hepatic Lipid and Carbohydrate Metabolism in Sepsis (T.W. Lysz and G.W. Machiedo).