Philippe A. Lysy, Françoise Smets, Catherine Sibille, Mustapha Najimi, Etienne M. Sokal – 29 October 2007 – The phenotypic homology of fibroblasts and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) has been recently described. Our study investigated the in vitro potential of human skin fibroblasts to differentiate into mesodermal (osteocyte and adipocyte) and endodermal (hepatocyte) cell lineages by comparison with human bone marrow (hBM) MSCs. The endodermal potential of fibroblasts was then explored in vivo in a mouse model of liver injury.

Nam‐On Ku, Pavel Strnad, Bi‐Hui Zhong, Guo‐Zhong Tao, M. Bishr Omary – 29 October 2007 – Keratin polypeptides 8 and 18 (K8/K18) are the cytoskeletal intermediate filament proteins of hepatocytes while K8/K18/K19 are the keratins of hepatobiliary ductal cells. Hepatocyte K8/K18 are highly abundant and behave as stress proteins with injury‐inducible expression.

Patrick S. C. Leung, Lorenzo Rossaro, Paul A. Davis, Ogyi Park, Atsushi Tanaka, Kentaro Kikuchi, Hiroshi Miyakawa, Gary L. Norman, William Lee, M.

Hugo Vargas – 29 October 2007

29 October 2007

James Neuberger – 29 October 2007 – The discrepancy between the number of people who might benefit from liver transplantation continues to exceed the availability of donor livers available, so rationing of grafts must occur.

Pietro Majno, Emiliano Giostra, Gilles Mentha – 29 October 2007

Benjamin L. Shneider, George V. Mazariegos – 29 October 2007

Seong Hoon Kim, Jun‐sik Yoo, Sung‐Sik Han, Sang Jae Park, Soon‐ae Lee, Woo Jin Lee, Joong‐Won Park, Chang‐Min Kim – 29 October 2007

Christine Carter‐Kent, Kadakkal Radhakrishnan, Ariel E. Feldstein – 29 October 2007