Molecular Biology and Immunology in Hepatology Advances in the Treatment of Intractable Liver Diseases

This book presents an integration of recent knowledge of virology, molecular biology and immunology focusing on intractable liver diseases. It reports on mechanisms of liver injury e.g. viral hepatitis, fulminant hepatic failure, autoimmune hepatitis, and hepatocarcinogenesis based on the evidence from both clinical and basic research e.g. genetic diversities or transgenic mice models. It also explains current concepts and new strategies to treat alcoholic liver diseases, interferon resistant hepatitis C virus, liver cirrhosis, fulminant hepatic failure, and hepatocellular carcinoma e.g. new drugs, immunotherapy, gene therapy or living related liver transplantation. The authors are all front runners in current hepatology and give us proper information on each topic. The book will be of interest to all clinicians and basic scientists devoted to hepatology and will be a useful guide to reveal what we can do now and what we should do to treat intractable liver diseases.