Melanie Tran, Yanjun Liu, Wendong Huang, Li Wang – 14 June 2018 – The nuclear receptor superfamily contains important transcriptional regulators that play pleiotropic roles in cell differentiation, development, proliferation, and metabolic processes to govern liver physiology and pathology. Many nuclear receptors are ligand‐activated transcription factors that regulate the expression of their target genes by modulating transcriptional activities and epigenetic changes.

Sadahisa Ogasawara, Tetsuhiro Chiba, Yoshihiko Ooka, Osamu Yokosuka, Naoya Kato – 14 June 2018

Yohei Mano, Tomoharu Yoshizumi, Kyohei Yugawa, Masafumi Ohira, Takashi Motomura, Takeo Toshima, Shinji Itoh, Noboru Harada, Toru Ikegami, Yuji Soejima, Yoshihiko Maehara – 12 June 2018 – Recent studies revealed that systemic inflammation was correlated with poorer prognosis in various cancers. We investigated the prognostic value of the lymphocyte‐to‐monocyte ratio (LMR) in patients who underwent living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We retrospectively analyzed the records of 216 patients who underwent LDLT for HCC.

Sanae Hayashi, Anis Khan, Brenna C. Simons, Chriss Homan, Takeshi Matsui, Kenji Ogawa, Keigo Kawashima, Shuko Murakami, Satoru Takahashi, Masanori Isogawa, Kazuho Ikeo, Masashi Mizokami, Brian J. McMahon, Yasuhito Tanaka – 12 June 2018 – Hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype F1b infection is strongly associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in young Alaskan Native (AN) people. However, the mechanisms by which genotype F1b causes HCC are unclear. Here, we analyzed the clinical and virological significance of genotype F1b in long‐term serial samples from 20 HCC patients with HBV infection.

Sanae Hayashi, Anis Khan, Brenna C. Simons, Chriss Homan, Takeshi Matsui, Kenji Ogawa, Keigo Kawashima, Shuko Murakami, Satoru Takahashi, Masanori Isogawa, Kazuho Ikeo, Masashi Mizokami, Brian J. McMahon, Yasuhito Tanaka – 12 June 2018 – Hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype F1b infection is strongly associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in young Alaskan Native (AN) people. However, the mechanisms by which genotype F1b causes HCC are unclear. Here, we analyzed the clinical and virological significance of genotype F1b in long‐term serial samples from 20 HCC patients with HBV infection.

Eleni Theocharidou, Michael A. Heneghan – 12 June 2018 – Autoimmune liver diseases (AILDs) can recur following liver transplantation (LT) despite immunosuppressive therapy, with implications for graft survival. Although the evidence is not robust, disease recurrence seems to occur in the presence of less intense and/or steroid‐free immunosuppression (IS) in particular in the case of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH). The main risk factor for AIH recurrence is the severity of disease activity in the explant and potential donor/recipient human leukocyte antigen D‐related 3 (DR3) mismatch.

Rinaldo Pellicano, Marilena Durazzo – 11 June 2018

Fumiko Chino, Kimberly Ellen Pollis, Steve Choi, Joseph K Salama, Manisha Palta – 11 June 2018

Bharat Bhushan, John W. Stoops, Wendy M. Mars, Anne Orr, William C. Bowen, Shirish Paranjpe, George K. Michalopoulos – 11 June 2018 – TCPOBOP (1,4‐Bis [2‐(3,5‐Dichloropyridyloxy)] benzene) is a constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) agonist that induces robust hepatocyte proliferation and hepatomegaly without any liver injury or tissue loss. TCPOBOP‐induced direct hyperplasia has been considered to be CAR‐dependent with no evidence of involvement of cytokines or growth factor signaling.

Saumya Pandey – 11 June 2018