REFERENCES
- Robinette C D, Fraumeni J F, Jr. Splenectomy and subsequent mortality in veterans of the 1939–45 war. Lancet 1977; 16: 127–129
- Aviram M, Brook J G, Tatarsky I, et al. Increased low density lipoprotein levels after splenectomy: a role for the spleen in cholesterol metabolism in myeloproliferative disorders. Am J Med Sci 1986; 291: 25–28
- Schmidt H H, Wagner S, Manns M. The spleen as a storage pool in lipid metabolism. Am J Gastroenterol 1997; 92: 1072
- Fatouros M, Bourantas K, Bairaktari E, et al. Role of the spleen of the lipid metabolism. Br J Surg 1995; 82: 1675–1677
- Asai k, Kuzuya M, Naito M, et al. Effects of splenectomy on serum lipids and experimental atherosclerosis. Angiology 1988; 39: 497–504
- Romanovsky A A, Petersen S R. The spleen: another mystery about its function. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2003; 284: R1378–1379
- Schafer E J, Triche T J, Zech L A, et al. Massive omental reticuloendothelial cell lipid uptake in Tangier disease after splenectomy. Am J Med 1983; 75: 227–232
- Mayes P A. Lipid transport and storage, in edit Murray RK. Harper's Biochemistry. Am J Med 1996; 254–270
- Hoekstra M, Out R, Kruijt J K, Van Eck M, Van Berkel T J. Diet induced regulation of genes involved in cholesterol metabolism in rat liver parenchymal and Kupffer cells. J Hepatol 2005; 42: 400–407
- Shih-Ching K, Choudhry M A, Matsutani T, Schwacha M G, Rue L W, Bland K I, Chaudry I H. Splenectomy differentially influences immune responses in various tissue compartments of the body. Cytokine 2004; 28: 101–108
- Neyrinck A M, Taper H S, Gevers V, Declerck B, Delzenne N M. Inhibition of Kupffer cell activity induces hepatic triglyceride synthesis in fasted rats, independent of lipopolysaccharide challenge. J Hepatol 2002; 36: 466–473
- Li Z, Diehl A M. Innate immunity in the liver. Curr Opin Gastroenterol 2003; 19: 565–571
- Goldfarb A W, Rachmilewitz E A, Eisenberg S. Abnormal low and high density lipoproteins in homozygous beta-thalasaemia. Br J Hematol 1991; 79: 481–486
- Pisters P W, Pachter H L. Autologous splenic transplantation for splenic trauma. Ann Surg 1994; 219: 225–235
- Levy Y, Miko I, Havek M, et al. Effect of omental angiogenic lipid factor on revascularization of autotransplanted spleen in dogs. Eur Surg Res 1998; 30: 138–143
- Weber T, Hanisch E, Baum R P, Seufert R M. Late results of heterotopic autotransplantation of splenic tissue into the greater omentum. World J Surg 1998; 22: 883–889
- Smith E, De Young N J, Drew P A. Immune cell subpopulation in regenerated splenic tissue rats. Autz N Z Surg 1999; 67: 522–525