Ramona Nicolau‐Raducu, Thiago Beduschi, Rodrigo Vianna, Christian Diez, Mahmoud Sleem, Bhavna P. Singh, Georgia Vasileiou, Yehuda Raveh – 7 December 2018 – Detrimental consequences of hypofibrinolysis, also known as fibrinolysis shutdown (FS), have recently arisen, and its significance in liver transplantation (LT) remains unknown. To fill this gap, this retrospective study included 166 adults who received transplants between 2016 and 2018 for whom baseline thromboelastography was available.

Joan Clària, Richard Moreau, François Fenaille, Alex Amorós, Christophe Junot, Henning Gronbaek, Minneke J. Coenraad, Alain Pruvost, Aurélie Ghettas, Emeline Chu‐Van, Cristina López‐Vicario, Karl Oettl, Paolo Caraceni, Carlo Alessandria, Jonel Trebicka, Marco Pavesi, Carme Deulofeu, Agustin Albillos, Thierry Gustot, Tania M. Welzel, Javier Fernández, Rudolf E.

Paulo S. Pinheiro – 6 December 2018

Michele Alves‐Bezerra, Yingxia Li, Mariana Acuña, Anna A. Ivanova, Kathleen E. Corey, Eric A. Ortlund, David E. Cohen – 5 December 2018 – In nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), triglycerides accumulate within the liver because the rates of fatty acid accrual by uptake from plasma and de novo synthesis exceed elimination by mitochondrial oxidation and secretion as very low‐density lipoprotein (VLDL) triglycerides. Thioesterase superfamily member 2 (Them2) is an acyl‐coenzyme A (CoA) thioesterase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of fatty acyl‐CoAs into free fatty acids plus CoASH.

Brett McGettigan, Rachel McMahan, David Orlicky, Matthew Burchill, Thomas Danhorn, Prashanth Francis, Lin Ling Cheng, Lucy Golden‐Mason, Claudia V. Jakubzick, Hugo R. Rosen – 5 December 2018 – A crucial component of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) pathogenesis is lipid stress, which may contribute to hepatic inflammation and activation of innate immunity in the liver. However, little is known regarding how dietary lipids, including fat and cholesterol, may facilitate innate immune activation in vivo.

Bilon Khambu, Tiangang Li, Shengmin Yan, Changshun Yu, Xiaoyun Chen, Michael Goheen, Yong Li, Jingmei Lin, Oscar W. Cummings, Youngmin A. Lee, Scott Friedman, Zheng Dong, Gen‐Sheng Feng, Shangwei Wu, Xiao‐Ming Yin – 5 December 2018 – Autophagy is important for hepatic homeostasis, nutrient regeneration, and organelle quality control. We investigated the mechanisms by which liver injury occurred in the absence of autophagy function.

Dun‐Chang Mo, Rong‐Rong Jia, Jian‐Hong Zhong – 5 December 2018

Cheuk‐Ting Law, Lai Wei, Felice Ho‐Ching Tsang, Cerise Yuen‐Ki Chan, Iris Ming‐Jing Xu, Robin Kit‐Ho Lai, Daniel Wai‐Hung Ho, Joyce Man‐Fong Lee, Carmen Chak‐Lui Wong, Irene Oi‐Lin Ng, Chun‐Ming Wong – 5 December 2018 – Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third most lethal cancer worldwide. Increasing evidence shows that epigenetic alterations play an important role in human carcinogenesis. Deregulation of DNA methylation and histone modifications have recently been characterized in HCC, but the significance of chromatin remodeling in liver carcinogenesis remains to be explored.

Douglas A. Simonetto, Laura Piccolo Serafim, Alice Gallo de Moraes, Ognjen Gajic, Patrick S. Kamath – 5 December 2018 – Sepsis in patients with cirrhosis is associated with high mortality. An impaired immune response accounts for the increased infection risk observed in these patients. Hemodynamic and systemic changes suggestive of sepsis may be observed in patients with cirrhosis in the absence of infection; therefore, diagnosis and treatment of sepsis may be delayed.

Lifeng Huang, Jie Cai, Han Guo, Jinyang Gu, Ying Tong, Bijun Qiu, Chenchen Wang, Meng Li, Lei Xia, Jianjun Zhang, Hailong Wu, Xiaoni Kong, Qiang Xia – 5 December 2018 – Cancer stem cells contribute to a high rate of recurrence and chemotherapeutic resistance in many types of cancer, including intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC). Inhibitor of differentiation 3 (ID3) has been reported to promote cancer stem cells, but its role in ICC is obscure.