[The role of apoptosis in the development of virus hepatitis]

In present review hepatocyte apoptosis is presented as universal defensive reaction of liver, to the damages. Hepatocyte apoptosis may be caused by hepatotropic virus's direct affection, or by the immune reactions initiated by viruses. Apoptosis development caused by virus direct affection varies and contains at lest two mechanisms: production of specific proteins: B virus - X protein and C virus - core-protein; expression of the receptors leading the induction of this process on the hepatocyte membrane, for example, increasing of Fas-receptor and cell sensation to apoptosis stimulus. In apoptosis induced by immune reaction T-lymphocytes could trigger off apoptosis in two principal ways: by releasing perporines that produce holes through hepatocyte membrane and according to this process granzyms are permetted inside the cells. By destroying of caspases by proteases that initiate apoptosis cascade. In this article molecular mechanisms of the processes mentioned above are also discussed.