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Patients with cutaneous and hepatic A-GVHD frequently have apoptosis in their colon biopsies, without any intestinal symptoms [ 4 ] . This may represent sub-clinical intestinal A-GVHD if the apoptosis is observed in relation to the crypts [ 10 ] . If other findings (Table 4) are present in the absence of crypt apoptosis, it may represent evidence of past A-GVHD or due to other etiologic factors such as chronic infections and inflammatory bowel disease.
The technique has been validated against flow models, conventional single-point laser Doppler flowmetry and other established methods of assessing skin perfusion [ 28, 29, 30, 31], and has been used to measure perfusion in hepatic [ 32] and colonic [ 33] tissue.
Indeed, the analyses indicate that desferrioxamine not only increases the likelihood of lowering hepatic iron load, but also tends to induce larger reductions in hepatic iron among responders, even after controlling for the imbalance in HIC at study initiation.
Indeed, since tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) is known to suppress hepatic apoptosis [ 9 ] , a function which is considered a safeguard mechanism against neoplasia [ 10 11 ] , the reported ability of RU486 to elevate hepatic TNFα production in vivo and to enhance cell sensitivity to its toxic effects is alarming [ 12 ] . Glucocorticoids also inhibit hepatocellular proliferation [ 13 14 15 ] and modulate the expression of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes [ 11 ] , via mechanisms involving the glucocorticoid receptor [ 16 17 18 ] , further supporting the notion that inhibiting these receptors may result in harmful effects.
Changes in other hepatic cytochrome p450 genes are included in Table 2.
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