Search Results - "Alcoholism"

Alcoholic liver disease

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Alcoholism, including the toll of alcoholism, is key to understanding alcoholic liver disease (ALD) -- Alcoholism is clandestine disorder -- Abstinence is key to recovery from both alcoholism and ALD -- There are few evidence-based therapies for ALD, other than abstinence -- Liver transplantation is valuable in selected subjects with ALD.…”
Get full text
Series

Governing Habits : Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic / by Raikhel, Eugene A., 1975-

Subjects: “…Alcoholism Treatment fast (OCoLC)fst00804565…”
Full text available:

NASH evaluation and treatment /

Subjects: Get full text

Advances in the treatment of NASH

Subjects: Get full text

Arc and the Sediment : a Novel / by Allen-Yazzie, Christine Diane

Subjects: Full text available:

Intoxication : An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry / by Tutenges, Sebastien

Subjects: Full text available:

Immunotherapy of hepatocellular carcinoma

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) background and overview -- Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and HCC -- Immune suppressor mechanisms in tumour environments -- Ongoing and future immunotherapy trials in HCC.…”
Get full text
Series

Enfants de parents affectés d'une dépendance : Problèmes et résilience / by Vitaro, Frank

Subjects: Full text available:

Spirits of Defiance : National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, 1920-1933 / by Drowne, Kathleen Morgan

Subjects: Full text available:

Non-P450 oxidative metabolism characteristics and drug substrates /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Non-P450 cytosolic and mitochondrial enzymes catalysing drug oxidation -- Aldehyde oxidase and xanthine oxidase -- Alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase -- Monoamine oxidase -- Flavin monooxygenase -- Substrate specificities -- Drug and xenobiotic substrates -- Catalytic mechanism and metabolite formation -- Reactive oxygen species -- Factors affecting enzyme activity -- Polymorphism and isozymes -- Relative importance in drug metabolism.…”
Get full text
Series

Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll : Youth Culture and Masculinity during Holland's Golden Age / by Roberts, Benjamin, 1965-

Table of Contents: Full text available:

Pancreatitis and Ca2+ signalling

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Normal Calcium signaling events in pancreatic acinar cells -- Hyperstimulation as a cause of sustained global elevation of the cytosolic [Calcium], Calcium-dependent vacuolization and Calcium-dependent protease activation -- Bile acids causing sustained global Calcium signals and necrosis -- Calcium-dependent necrosis evoked by non-oxidative alcohol metabolites (fatty acid ethyl esters and fatty acids) but not by alcohol or acetaldehyde -- The mechanism of action of fatty acid ethyl esters and fatty acids -- The mildly protective effect of coffee (caffeine) -- A model for the initiation of alcoholic pancreatitis.…”
Get full text
Series (Calcium signaling I)
Series (Calcium signaling II)

Drug metabolism in liver disease

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Liver disease and drug clearance - Mechanistic explanations - Intact hepatocyte hypothesis - Sick cell theory - Sequential progressive model of liver disease - Viral liver disease - Alcoholic liver disease - Hepatocellular carcinoma - Liver transplantation…”
Get full text
Series

The management of other aspects of chronic liver disease, including transplantation

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Common complications of end stage cirrhosis including life threatening disorders of variceal bleeding, ascites, hepatorenal syndrome, encephalopathy and hepatopulmonary syndrome -- Preparation for listing for liver transplantation in patients with end stage liver disease includes documentation and absence of alcohol consumption (in alcoholics), reduction of hepatitis B DNA levels (in HBV patients) and aggressive treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma to reduce the risk of recurrent disease -- The most common allocation system for liver transplantation is the model for end stage liver disease -- Post transplantation care of the patient requires diligent annual followup with concentration on common diseases which include: metabolic syndrome (diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia), Preventive medicine (vaccination, dental disease), Inflammatory bowel disease, bone disease, and renal dysfunction.…”
Get full text
Series

Cardiovascular diseases from epidemiology to nutritional interventions /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Dietary treatment -- small overview of the process of atherosclerosis -- effects of dietary fat and cholesterol on risk factors -- the influence of whole grains, dietary pattern and alcohol -- the role of sodium -- the importance of fruits and vegetables -- the uncertainties regarding vitamin and mineral supplementation -- to role of phytosterols and phytostanols -- principles of management of hyperlipidemias by dietary means.…”
Get full text
Series

Prevention management of risk and protective factors /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Patients with ischaemic stroke are at high risk of recurrent vascular events -- One strategy to reduce the risk of recurrent events is controlling causal risk factors -- Effective strategies include stopping smoking, lowering blood pressure and blood cholesterol, minimising alcohol and salt consumption and optimizing glycosylated haemoglobin, body weight and physical activity.…”
Get full text
Series

Chronic pancreatitis

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Multiple predisposing conditions with a final common pathway of fibrosis -- Smoking and alcohol are well known major risk factors, recently identified conditions include autoimmune pancreatitis and genetic forms of pancreatitis -- Diagnosis is straightforward in patients with far-advanced disease, and quite challenging and difficult in those with early disease -- Treatment of pain -- Treatment of Exocrine insufficiency -- Complications.…”
Get full text
Series

Infection and chronic disease

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Chronic diseases (cystic fibrosis, atherosclerosis, tuberculosis) -- Risk factors -- Primary and secondary causes -- Categories of disease causation -- Risk factors and disease causation -- The e4 allele and the thrifty genotype hypothesis -- Geographical variations in allele frequencies -- Pathogen vulnerability hypothesis -- Environmental causations (smoking, high fat diet, alcohol, garlic, iron) -- Drug treatment and atherosclerosis.…”
Get full text
Series

Halakhah in a Theological Perspective / by Novak, David

Table of Contents: “…-- Women in the Rabbinate? -- Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the Perspective of Jewish Tradition -- Judaism and Contemporary Bioethics -- The Threat of Nuclear War: Jewish Perspectives -- The Logic of the Covenant: An Essay in Systematic Jewish Theology.…”
Full text available:

Committed : Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions / by Burch, Susan

Full text available: