Anna Saborowski, Katharina Wolff, Steffi Spielberg, Benedikt Beer, Björn Hartleben, Zulrahman Erlangga, Diana Becker, Lukas E. Dow, Silke Marhenke, Norman Woller, Kristian Unger, Peter Schirmacher, Michael P. Manns, Jens U. Marquardt, Arndt Vogel, Michael Saborowski – 5 February 2019 – The rising incidence of cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) coupled with a low 5‐year survival rate that remains below 10% delineates the urgent need for more effective treatment strategies.

Ying Shi, Lingyao Du, Duoduo Lv, Hong Li, Jin Shang, Jiajie Lu, Lingyun Zhou, Lang Bai, Hong Tang – 5 February 2019 – The negative regulators in the interferon (IFN) signaling pathway inhibit intrahepatic immune response, resulting in suboptimal therapeutic response to IFNα treatment in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients. Identifying the key negative factors and elucidating the regulating mechanism are essential for improving anti‐HBV (hepatitis B virus) efficacy of IFNα.

Jessica A. Zagory, Michael Fenlon, William Dietz, Menghan Zhao, Marie V. Nguyen, Pavin Trinh, Maeva Adoumie, Alex Park, Jiabo Xu, Elaa Mahdi, Alison Glazier, Nicolas Malkoff, Nirmala Mavila, Kasper S. Wang, in conjunction with the Childhood Liver Disease Research Network – 5 February 2019 – In patients with biliary atresia (BA), the extent of intrahepatic biliary fibrosis negatively correlates with successful surgical bypass of the congenital cholangiopathy as well as subsequent transplant‐free survival.

Jacqueline G. O’Leary, Jasmohan S. Bajaj, Puneeta Tandon, Scott W. Biggins, Florence Wong, Patrick S. Kamath, Guadalupe Garcia‐Tsao, Benedict Maliakkal, Jennifer Lai, Michael Fallon, Hugo E. Vargas, Paul Thuluvath, Ram Subramanian, Leroy R. Thacker, K. Rajender Reddy – 5 February 2019 – Acute‐on‐chronic liver failure (ACLF) characterized with ≥2 extrahepatic organ failures in cirrhosis carries a high mortality. Outcomes of patients listed for liver transplantation (LT) after ACLF and after LT are largely unknown.

Felice Ho‐Ching Tsang, Cheuk‐Ting Law, Tsz‐Ching Chloe Tang, Carol Lai‐Hung Cheng, Don Wai‐Ching Chin, Wing‐Sum Vincy Tam, Lai Wei, Carmen Chak‐Lui Wong, Irene Oi‐Lin Ng, Chun‐Ming Wong – 5 February 2019 – Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells exploit an aberrant transcriptional program to sustain their infinite growth and progression. Emerging evidence indicates that the continuous and robust transcription of oncogenes in cancer cells is often driven by super‐enhancers (SEs).

Peter Jepsen, Matthew J. Grainge – 5 February 2019

Congwen Wei, Xiaoli Yang, Ning Liu, Jin Geng, Yanhong Tai, Zhenyu Sun, Gangwu Mei, Pengyu Zhou, Yumeng Peng, Chenbin Wang, Xiaoli Zhang, Pingping Zhang, Yunqi Geng, Yujie Wang, Xiaotong Zhang, Xin Liu, Yanhong Zhang, Feixiang Wu, Xiang He, Hui Zhong – 5 February 2019 – The unfolded protein response (UPR) signal in tumor cells activates UPR signaling in neighboring macrophages, which leads to tumor‐promoting inflammation by up‐regulating UPR target genes and proinflammatory cytokines.

Kelly McDaniel, Nan Wu, Tianhao Zhou, Li Huang, Keisaku Sato, Julie Venter, Ludovica Ceci, Demeng Chen, Sugeily Ramos‐Lorenzo, Pietro Invernizzi, Francesca Bernuzzi, Chaodong Wu, Heather Francis, Shannon Glaser, Gianfranco Alpini, Fanyin Meng – 5 February 2019 – Cholangiopathies are diseases that affect cholangiocytes, the cells lining the biliary tract. Liver stem cells (LSCs) are able to differentiate into all cells of the liver and possibly influence the surrounding liver tissue by secretion of signaling molecules.

Simon Musyoka Mwangi, Ge Li, Lan Ye, Yunshan Liu, Francois Reichardt, Samantha M. Yeligar, C. Michael Hart, Mark J. Czaja, Shanthi Srinivasan – 4 February 2019 – Glial cell line–derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) is a protein that is required for the development and survival of enteric, sympathetic, and catecholaminergic neurons. We previously reported that GDNF is protective against high fat diet (HFD)‐induced hepatic steatosis in mice through suppression of hepatic expression of peroxisome proliferator activated receptor‐γ and genes encoding enzymes involved in de novo lipogenesis.

Thomas G. Cotter, Sonali Paul, Burhaneddin Sandıkçı, Thomas Couri, Adam S. Bodzin, Ester C. Little, Vinay Sundaram, Michael Charlton – 4 February 2019 – Highly effective direct‐acting antiviral (DAA) therapy has transformed outcomes of liver transplantation in hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients. We examined longer‐term outcomes in HCV‐positive recipients in the DAA era and analyzed the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients for primary adult, single‐organ, nonfulminant liver transplant recipients in the United States from January 1, 2008 to June 30, 2018.