Book description
In its Fifth Edition, this classic book retains its traditional
strength of relating molecular physiology to understanding disease
pathology and treatment as it explores the current state and future
direction of hepatology.
Painstakingly revised, this edition includes 60 new chapters. As in
previous editions, a section called Horizons summarizes advances of
extraordinary nature in areas expected to have a substantial impact on
hepatology. The Fifth Edition's Horizons section includes emerging
topics such as tissue engineering of the liver, liver-directed gene
therapy, decoding the liver cancer genome, and imaging cellular
proteins and structure.
To preserve essential background information which has not changed
while making room for the panoply of major new contributions to
understanding of liver disease, 14 chapters from the previous edition
are freely available online at gastrohep. com. To view these
chapters visit - http://www. gastrohep.
com/theliver/
Editor:
Irwin Arias, MD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Professor of Physiology, Emeritus, Tufts University School of
Medicine, Boston, Mass. Visiting Professor of Medicine, Albert
Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
Associate editors:
James L. Boyer, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
David Shafritz, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
Nelson Fausto, Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Harvey Alter, Department of Transfusion Medicine, National Institutes
of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
David E. Cohen,.Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Allan Wolkoff, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
