Browsing by Author "Rigopoulou, E. I."

Adiponectin: A New Independent Predictor of Liver Steatosis and Response to IFN-alpha Treatment in Chronic Hepatitis C

Zografos, T. A.; Liaskos, C.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Togousidis, E.; Makaritsis, K.; Germenis, A.; Dalekos, G. N. (2008)

OBJECTIVES: To compare serum adiponectin and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha among patients with viral liver diseases; to investigate associations of serum adiponectin and TNF-alpha with histological or viral characteristics ...

Alterations of leptin during IFN-alpha therapy in patients with chronic viral hepatitis

Zografos, T. A.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Liaskos, C.; Togousidis, E.; Zachou, K.; Gatselis, N.; Germenis, A.; Dalekos, G. N. (2006)

Background/Aims: Leptin has a particular profibrogenic role in the liver. We investigated whether IFN-alpha influences leptin production in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) and C (CHC). Leptin was determined in ...

ANA IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE PATTERNS AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH REACTIVITY TO MOLECULARLY DEFINED NUCLEAR TARGETS IN CHILDREN WITH TYPE 1 AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS

Mytilinaiou, M. G.; Teegen, B.; Grammatikopoulos, A.; Davies, E.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Komorowski, L.; Dahnrich, C.; Mieli-Vergani, G.; Fechner, K.; Vergani, D.; Bogdanos, D. P. (2011)

ANTI-ASIALOGLYCOPROTEIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY MEASURED BY ELISA IS A SPECIFIC MARKER OF LIVER AUTOIMMUNITY AND MIRRORS DISEASE ACTIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS

Mytilinaiou, M. G.; Roggenbuck, D.; Grammatikopoulos, A.; Davies, E.; Romanidou, O.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Mieli-Vergani, G.; Vergani, D.; Bogdanos, D. P. (2011)

Anti-gp210 antibody mirrors disease severity in primary biliary cirrhosis

Bogdanos, D. P.; Liaskos, C.; Pares, A.; Norman, G.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Caballeria, L.; Dalekos, G. N.; Rodes, J.; Vergani, D. (2007)

Anti-mitochondrial antibodies in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: Revealing the unforeseen

Bogdanos, D. P.; Liaskos, C.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Dalekos, G. N. (2006)

Anti-mitochondrial antibody immunofluorescent titres correlate with the number and intensity of immunoblot-detected mitochondrial bands in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis

Rigopoulou, E. I.; Bogdanos, D. P.; Liaskos, C.; Koutsoumpas, A.; Baum, H.; Vergani, D.; Dalekos, G. N. (2007)

Background: Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC)-specific anti-mitochondrial antibodies (AMA), routinely detected by indirect immunofluoresnce, immunofix various mitochondrial antigens by immunoblot (IB). We have investigated ...

Anti-sp100 antibodies in primary biliary cirrhosis

Rigopoulou, E. I.; Dalekos, G. N. (2004)

Antibody responses specific for soluble liver antigen co-occur with RO-52 autoantibodies in patients with autoimmune hepatitis

Liaskos, C.; Bogdanos, D. P.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Norman, G. L.; Shurns, Z.; Al-Chalabi, T.; Krawitt, E. L.; Mieli-Vergani, G.; Czaja, A. J.; Vergani, D.; Dalekos, G. N. (2007)

Antimitochondrial antibodies of immunoglobulin G3 subclass are associated with a more severe disease course in primary biliary cirrhosis

Rigopoulou, E. I.; Davies, E. T.; Bogdanos, D. P.; Liaskos, C.; Mytilinaiou, M.; Koukoulis, G. K.; Dalekos, G. N.; Vergani, D. (2007)

Background/Aims: Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is characterised by the presence of immunoglobulin (Ig) G antimitochondrial antibodies (AMA), which are routinely detected by indirect immunofluorescence (IFL) using composite ...

Asialoglycoprotein receptor (ASGPR) as target autoantigen in liver autoimmunity: Lost and found

Rigopoulou, E. I.; Roggenbuck, D.; Smyk, D. S.; Liaskos, C.; Mytilinaiou, M. G.; Feist, E.; Conrad, K.; Bogdanos, D. P. (2012)

Asialoglycoprotein receptor (ASGPR) has attracted the attention of liver immunologists for many years. This liver-specific lectin was found to be a major B and T cell autoantigenic target in patients with autoimmune liver ...

Association between the primary biliary cirrhosis specific anti-sp100 antibodies and recurrent urinary tract infection

Bogdanos, D. P.; Baum, H.; Butler, P.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Davies, E. T.; Ma, Y.; Burroughs, A. K.; Vergani, D. (2003)

Background and aims. Recurrent urinary tract infections (rUTI) have been suggested to be involved in the induction of anti-mitochondrial antibodies (AMA), the serological hallmark of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), in ...

Autoantibodies in autoimmune pancreatitis

Smyk, D. S.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Koutsoumpas, A. L.; Kriese, S.; Burroughs, A. K.; Bogdanos, D. P. (2012)

Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) was first used to describe cases of pancreatitis with narrowing of the pancreatic duct, enlargement of the pancreas, hyper - globulinaemia, and antinuclear antibody (ANA) positivity serologically. ...

Autoimmune hepatitis in patients with chronic HBV and HCV infections: Patterns of clinical characteristics, disease progression and outcome

Rigopoulou, E. I.; Zachou, K.; Gatselis, N.; Koukoulis, G. K.; Dalekos, G. N. (2014)

We retrospectively investigated the characteristics, patterns of disease progression, outcome and difficulties in the management in 11 patients with concurrent autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and HBV or HCV infections (5 HCV ...

Autoimmune hepatitis natural history: a single Greek center experience focused on long-term effect of mycophenolate mofetil as first line treatment

Zachou, K.; Gatselis, N.; Gabeta, S.; Saitis, A. I.; Papadamou, G.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Koukoulis, G. K.; Dalekos, G. N. (2013)

Autoimmune hepatitis type 1 and primary biliary cirrhosis have distinct bone marrow cytokine production

Zachou, K.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Tsikrikoni, A.; Alexandrakis, M. G.; Passam, F.; Kyriakou, D. S.; Stathakis, N. E.; Dalekos, G. N. (2005)

We have recently reported differences in the hematopoiesis between autoimmune hepatitis type I (AIH-1) and primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). In view of the notion that cytokines are regulators of hematopoiesis, we investigated ...

Autoimmune hepatitis-specific antibodies against soluble liver antigen and liver cytosol type 1 in patients with chronic viral hepatitis

Rigopoulou, E. I.; Mytilinaiou, M.; Romanidou, O.; Liaskos, C.; Dalekos, G. N. (2007)

Background. Non-organ specific autoantibodies are highly prevalent in patients with chronic hepatitis C (HCV). Among them, anti-liver kidney microsomal type 1 (LKM1) antibody - the serological marker of type 2 autoimmune ...