[Hyperplastic hepatic nodules in a case of idiopathic portal hypertension: changes in imaging findings during a 6-year follow-up].

A 22-year-old man had been given a diagnosis of idiopathic portal hypertension in childhood. In June 2001, a hepatic nodule which gradually increased in size over the next 2 years, was detected in the left hepatic lobe. In February 2003, a left lateral segmentectomy was performed.

Potentiation of cisplatin lethality by bacterial lipopolysaccharide pretreatment in mice.

The present study was designed to determine whether bacterial endotoxin (LPS) affects the lethality of cisplatin. Mice treated with LPS (1 mg/kg, i.p.