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Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HBV
Pregnant women with Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are less likely to pass the virus on to babies delivered by elective cesarean section, compared to those delivered vaginally or by urgent cesarean section, according to the October issue of Clinical … Continue reading
Posted in Liver/Biliary
Tagged anti-viral therapy, birth, C-section, chronic hepatitis B, delivery, HBV, maternal, mother-child, neonate, newborn, pregnancy, vaccination, virus infection
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Fishing for Genes that Cause Biliary Atresia
A study of zebrafish has helped identify a susceptibility gene for biliary atresia, as reported in the May issue of Gastroenterology. Biliary atresia is a progressive fibro-inflammatory disorder of infants that involves the extrahepatic and intrahepatic biliary tree and causes … Continue reading
Posted in Liver/Biliary, Technology
Tagged Animal Model, babies, biliiary tract, defect, gene, Genetics, hedgehog signaling, liver development, newborn, zebrafish
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