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THIS volume consists of a series of papers given at a conference on the intermediary metabolism of the liver organized by one of the authors. The date of the conference is not disclosed but most of the references given are before 1971. Taken as such, it provides much useful reading for all who are interested in hepatic metabolism and disease. It makes no pretence at being comprehensive and touches only on a few of the fields which the reader might expect it to deal with from its pretentious title. Ten distinguished workers including Arky, Starzl and Slapak have contributed. The standard of writing and printing is good and a nice balance has been struck between dogma and scientific pedantry. For the surgeon and those involved in transplantation the chapters of Starzl and Slapak are of interest. The former presents impressive evidence that certain metabolic disorders which derive from disorders of hepatic metabolism, such as Wilson's disease and phenylketonuria, may eventually be amenable to cure by transplantation. D r Brown's chapter on ammonium metabolism and encephalopathy is also worthy of note. American work in this field is well reviewed. Classic British work, however, and in

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Author

C. G. Clark

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley; Research Square; Oxford University Press (OUP) (ISSN 0007-1323)

Published

1974

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)