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Update - May 2002, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics
Update - May 2002, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics
Update
In this issue:
-- The Compleat Physician
-- Informed Consent Documentation for Total Artificial Hearth Technology
-- Ralph J. and Carolyn Thompson Endowment established in 2001
Beta-Galactosidase As A Marker Of Ischemic Injury And A Mechanism For Viability Assessment In Porcine Liver Transplantation., Shawn D. St Peter, Charles J. Imber, Inigo Lopez De Cenarruzabeitia, James Mcguire, Tim James, Richard Taylor, Peter J. Friend
Beta-Galactosidase As A Marker Of Ischemic Injury And A Mechanism For Viability Assessment In Porcine Liver Transplantation., Shawn D. St Peter, Charles J. Imber, Inigo Lopez De Cenarruzabeitia, James Mcguire, Tim James, Richard Taylor, Peter J. Friend
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Glycohydrolases are a group of enzymes contained predominantly within lysosomes, which are released during Kupffer cell activation or death. One of these, beta-galactosidase, has been proposed as a marker of ischemia-reperfusion injury in the liver because Kupffer cell activation represents a primary event in the injurious reperfusion cascade. In this study, we compared B-galactosidase with more traditional indicators of liver injury and function in a porcine model of liver preservation. Porcine livers were allocated into two groups: group C (n = 5), preserved in University of Wisconsin solution by standard cold storage for 24 hours, and group W (n = …