… liver injury subsequent to chronic alcohol ingestion are poorly understood. Natural killer
T (NKT) cells, enriched in the liver … inflammatory events leading to alcoholic liver disease (ALD). …

… may have important roles in a variety of liver diseases. Although there is an abundance
of … known about them in human health or liver diseases. (HEPATOLOGY 2004;40:1033–1040.) …

… In the present study, hepatic ALR mRNA expression was higher in patients with liver disease
than in non-liver disease controls, and a correlation was found between serum ALR values …

… diseases Abstract The liver is a distinctive immune organ with predominant innate immunity,
being rich in innate immune cells such as natural killer (NK) cells. In humans, NK cells …

… to liver NK cell subsets and also review our current knowledge of NK cell functions in acute
and chronic liver diseases. … The role of natural killer cells in autoimmune liver disease: a …

… fibrosis is a common pathological feature of various hepatic diseases, such as viral hepatitis,
alcoholic liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, ultimately leading to irreversible …

… virus, causes mouse liver disease with many characteristics … liver disease characterized by
induction of a focal inffammatory response (6, 14, 27, 31, 34) and enzymatic evidence of liver …

… Intra-hepatic (IH)-NK cell functions are strongly influenced by liver microenvironment and
are therefore modified depending on liver disease pathogenesis. In HCV-infected patients, IH-…

… as fatty liver disease sensitizes the liver to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) injury.In this line, several
works highlighted natural killer T (… We hypothesize that, at early stages of fatty liver disease, …

… The liver is an organ that has the largest amount of natural killer T(NKT) cells, which play
critical roles in the pathogenesis of liver diseases. In this article, the authors summarize recent …