The primary function of the small intestine is the digestion of food and absorption of nutrients and minerals aided by bile salts and enzymes that are provided by the liver and the pancreas via ducts entering the proximal part of the small intestine, the duodenum. As the small intestine is ...
As with any organ, depending on dose and delivery schedules, significant damage can be produced in any portion of the alimentary system; however, for the purposes of discussion of mechanisms, we will limit ourselves to the salivary tissue, small intestine, esophagus, and liver. ...
The enlarging hepatic lesions deemed TSTC represented metastatic breast cancer (three patients), metastatic pancreatic cancer (one patient), or cysts (one patient); in one patient, the etiology was not known. Results of best- and worst-case analyses showed that the lesions were benign in 96.9%...
supernatant (Supplementary Fig.2a). Next, EVs isolated from the ascites of OvCa patients were examined for ARG1 content. We have detected ARG1+EVs in the ascites of OvCa patients but not in the fluid obtained from benign ovarian cysts (normal controls, NC) (Fig.2b). Furthermore, we confirm...
them are arginases that catalyze degradation of semi-essential ʟ-arginine to ʟ-ornithine and urea. Besides their fundamental role in the hepatic urea cycle, arginases have been shown to downregulate expression of T-cell receptor (TCR)-associated CD3ζ and ε chains, the critical components...
This likely reflects hepatic enzyme induction by inflammatory cytokines or osteolytic bone involvement. Hyperbilirubinemia develops in a small subset of dogs with disseminated disease; it is unclear if this implicates the liver directly or reflects systemic inflammation...
57 nodules were better evaluable with HiFR-CEUS; 6 nodules were equally evaluable by both techniques; final diagnosis was: 44 benign lesions (29 hemangiomas, 1 amartoma, 2 hepatic cysts; 2 focal nodular hyperplasias, 3 regenerative macronodules, 3 AV-shunts, 3 hepatic sparing areas and 1 ...
Conclusion FLAIR-HASTE is considered to be an effective sequence for differentiating hepatic cysts from liver metastases without the use of a contrast agent. With FLAIR-HASTE one can confidently diagnose small hepatic lesions found on CT in patients with a malignancy. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2007...
57 nodules were better evaluable with HiFR-CEUS; 6 nodules were equally evaluable by both techniques; final diagnosis was: 44 benign lesions (29 hemangiomas, 1 amartoma, 2 hepatic cysts; 2 focal nodular hyperplasias, 3 regenerative macronodules, 3 AV-shunts, 3 hepatic sparing areas and 1 ...
of which the type occupying the major proportion was hepatocellular carcinoma. The benign types were hepatic cysts and liver hemangioma, and the malignant types were HCC, metastases of liver, and ICC, with more than half of the malignant types. For tumor size, more than 50% of the tumors we...