Immunological aspects of liver disease.

The early years The immunology section of the Liver Unit began, like so many other research areas in those early days, as a foray into the unknown by enthusiastic but relatively inexperienced research fellows. During an eventful year as a medical registrar at Dulwich Hospital in 1967, Adrian Eddleston was enlisted as both injector of Tech- netium sulphur colloid in the Physics Depart- ment at King's and interpreter of the resulting liver scintiscans, and soon found that his appetite for research first kindled in Oxford, was alive and well. Hot spleens and cold livers, the norm in cirrhosis, were tracked down to changes in blood flow in the two organs, after some stimulat- ing discussions with Laurie Blendis, an uncom- promising but wonderfully stimulating research mentor.'