Lovkesh Anand, Ashok Choudhury, S.K. Sarin – 15 March 2019

Pengfei Liu, Montserrat Rojo Vega, Matthew Dodson, Fei Yue, Boyun Shi, Deyu Fang, Eli Chapman, Leyuan Liu, Donna D. Zhang – 15 March 2019 – Spermidine (SPD), a naturally occurring polyamine, has been recognized as a caloric restriction mimetic that confers health benefits, presumably by inducing autophagy. Recent studies have reported that oral administration of SPD protects against liver fibrosis and hepatocarcinogenesis through activation of microtubule associated protein 1S (MAP1S)–mediated autophagy.

Raymond J. Lynch, Fei Ye, Quanhu Sheng, Zhiguo Zhao, Seth J. Karp – 14 March 2019 – Allocation of livers for transplantation faces regulatory pressure to move toward broader sharing. A current proposal supported by the United Network for Organ Sharing Board of Directors relies on concentric circles, but its effect on socioeconomic inequities in access to transplant services is poorly understood.

Noriki Okada, Yukihiro Sanada, Yasuharu Onishi, Taizen Urahashi, Yoshiyuki Ihara, Naoya Yamada, Yuta Hirata, Takumi Katano, Toshimi Imai, Kentaro Ushijima, Keiko Ogaki, Shinya Otomo, Koichi Mizuta – 13 March 2019 – Early relaparotomy of adult recipients after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is significantly associated with poor prognosis. However, there are few reports focusing on pediatric recipients after LDLT. The aim of this study is to clarify the causes and outcomes of early relaparotomy after pediatric LDLT.

Yun‐Long Wang, Jin‐Yu Liu, Jin‐E Yang, Xiao‐Man Yu, Zhan‐Li Chen, Ya‐Jing Chen, Ming Kuang, Ying Zhu, Shi‐Mei Zhuang – 13 March 2019 – Although thousands of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been annotated, only a limited number of them have been functionally characterized. Here, we identified an oncogenic lncRNA, named lnc‐UCID (lncRNA up‐regulating CDK6 by interacting with DHX9). Lnc‐UCID was up‐regulated in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and a higher lnc‐UCID level was correlated with shorter recurrence‐free survival of HCC patients.

Ângelo Zambam de Mattos, Angelo Alves de Mattos – 12 March 2019

Cyrielle Caussy, Meera Bhargava, Ida F. Villesen, Natasja S. Gudmann, Diana J. Leeming, Morten A. Karsdal, Claire Faulkner, Denny Bao, Amy Liu, Min‐Tzu Lo, Ricki Bettencourt, Shirin Bassirian, Lisa Richards, David A. Brenner, Chi‐Hua Chen, Claude B. Sirlin, Rohit Loomba – 12 March 2019 – N‐terminal propeptide of type 3 procollagen (PRO‐C3) is a biomarker of liver fibrosis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

Eva Román, Juan Camilo Nieto, Cristina Gely, Sílvia Vidal, Marta Pozuelo, Maria Poca, Cándido Juárez, Carlos Guarner, Chaysavanh Manichanh, Germán Soriano – 12 March 2019 – Probiotics can modulate gut microbiota, intestinal permeability, and immune response and could therefore improve cognitive dysfunction and help avoid potential consequences, such as falls, in patients with cirrhosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of a multistrain probiotic on cognitive function, risk of falls, and inflammatory response in patients with cirrhosis.

Zhou Zhou, Ting Jie Ye, Gregory Bonavita, Michael Daniels, Noah Kainrad, Alvin Jogasuria, Min You – 12 March 2019 – Lipin‐1 is a Mg2+‐dependent phosphatidic acid phosphohydrolase involved in the generation of diacylglycerol during synthesis of phospholipids and triglycerides. Ethanol‐mediated inhibitory effects on adipose‐specific lipin‐1 expression were associated with experimental steatohepatitis in rodents.

Viniyendra Pamecha, Ankur Vagadiya, Piyush Kumar Sinha, Rommel Sandhyav, Kumaraswamy Parthasarathy, Shridhar Sasturkar, Nihar Mohapatra, Ashok Choudhury, Rakhi Maiwal, Rajeev Khanna, Seema Alam, Chandra Kant Pandey, Shiv Kumar Sarin – 12 March 2019 – In countries where deceased organ donation is sparse, emergency living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is the only lifesaving option in select patients with acute liver failure (ALF). The aim of the current study is living liver donor safety and recipient outcomes following LDLT for ALF.