Liver infectious diseases

Most of the herbal drugs that are used medicinally are comprised in these five groups of indications. Relative few are employed in a limited number of other areas occasionally in skm remedies, liver remedies, coronary remedies, blood circulation remedies, and in other groups of medicines. Summarizing, it can be said that the possibilities of treatment with herbal drugs are limited for a number of reasons for a series of illnesses like severe cardiac insufficiency, tumours, infectious diseases, diabetes, etc., herbal drugs arc not adequate remedies, even though, in contravention of the law, such claims are made in many publications. In a series of further cases, they only find use in support of the actual medical treatment they are nevertheless of value. 

E. histolytica and G. lamblia are waterborne infectious diseases that cause colitis and liver abscess, and enteritis, respectively. 

Rats in a subchronic inhalation study exposed to 50 ppm 1,2-dibromoethane had intercurrent infectious disease that severely complicated experimental results (see the discussion in this section on Respiratory Effects). No liver lesions were reported in surviving rats (Rowe et al. 1952). Guinea pigs exposed to 50 ppm 1,2-dibromoethane did not develop respiratory disease. Their liver lesions consisted of minimal centrilobular hepatocellular fatty change (Rowe et al. 1952). Liver lesions were not induced in F344 rats or B6C3i mice following subchronic exposure to any concentrations of... 

Diseases of people come in many flavors. There are infectious diseases (measles, mumps, influenza, AIDS,...), nutritional deficiency diseases (scurvy, beriberi, kwashiorkor,...), degenerative diseases (Alzheimer s disease, osteoporosis,...), cancer (of the lung, breast, prostate, liver,...), and single-gene inherited diseases or molecular diseases. In the last category, an important and instructive example is provided by sickle cell anemia. Let s consider this disease and begin to develop a sense of how we can understand it on the basis of what we now know about proteins. 

Other protein misfolding-associated diseases include lung diseases such as cystic fibrosis and hereditary emphysema, blood coagulation, certain infectious diseases, and liver diseases. Thus, a better understanding of chain folding is important for our health. 

Amoebiasis is an infectious disease caused by Entamoeba histolytica. It can cause asymptomatic intestinal infection, colitis (mild to moderate), dysentery (severe intestinal infection), ameboma, liver abscess etc. The drugs used in chemotherapy of amoebiasis are classified as in table 9.9.1. 

Hepatitis A is one of the most widespread infectious diseases worldwide. It is caused by the hepatitis A virus and is common in places with poor standards of hygiene and sanitation. The virus attacks the liver and causes varying degrees of illness in patients. 

The mammalian liver is a construction of living cells that function (unlike in other organs) in a delicate choreography that simultaneously detoxifies, metabolizes, and synthesizes proteins. The liver handles the breakdown and synthesis of carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, proteins, nucleic acids, and coenzymes (Figure 1.8). In addition to the hepatocytes, other cells within the liver perform other vital functions. The system contributes to the disposition of particulates carried by the bloodstream and fights myriad microbiological agents responsible for a number of infectious diseases. ... 

Prognosis Prognosis is poor. The patients die of liver insufficiency or right heart failure as well as from various infectious diseases. The mean survival period after diagnosis was 15 months, with a 6-month mortality of 50%. 

Kulkarni MA, Arankalle VA (2008) The detection and characterization of hepatitis E virus in pig livers from retail markets of India. Med Virol 80(8) 1387-1390 Labrique AB, Thomas DL, Stoszek SK, Nelson KE (1999) Hepatitis E an emerging infectious disease. Epidemiol Rev 21(2) 162-179... 

Infectious Diseases Affecting the Liver 7.4.1. Viral Infections... 

H12. Herlitz, C. W., Contributions to knowledge of function of the liver and reticuloendothelial system particularly in infectious disease of children. Acta Paediat. 12, Suppl. 1-80 (1931). 

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