Charlotte A. Lee, Anil Dhawan, Valeria Iansante, Sharon Lehec, Shirin E. Khorsandi, Celine Filippi, Simon Walker, Raquel Fernandez‐Dacosta, Nigel Heaton, Sanjay Bansal, Ragai R. Mitry, Emer Fitzpatrick – 21 January 2018 – Neonatal livers are a potential source of good‐quality hepatocytes for clinical transplantation. We compared viability and function of neonatal hepatocytes (NHs) and adult hepatocytes (AHs) and report their clinical use both intraportally and in alginate microbeads.

Mercedes Fernandez – 21 January 2018

Cyrielle Caussy, Scott B. Reeder, Claude B. Sirlin, Rohit Loomba – 21 January 2018 – Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is currently the most common cause of chronic liver disease worldwide, and the progressive form of this condition, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), has become one of the leading indications for liver transplantation. Despite intensive investigations, there are currently no United States Food and Drug Administration–approved therapies for treating NASH.

Silvia Martini, Lucio Caccamo, Mario Rizzetto – 21 January 2018

Shoichi Kageyama, Kojiro Nakamura, Takehiro Fujii, Bibo Ke, Rebecca A. Sosa, Elaine F. Reed, Nakul Datta, Ali Zarrinpar, Ronald W. Busuttil, Jerzy W. Kupiec‐Weglinski – 19 January 2018 – Hepatic ischemia‐reperfusion injury (IRI) represents a major risk factor of early graft dysfunction and acute/chronic rejection as well as a key obstacle to expanding the donor pool in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT).

Chia‐Jui Yen, Yu‐Lin Ai, Hung‐Wen Tsai, Shih‐Huang Chan, Chia‐Sheng Yen, Kuang‐Hsiung Cheng, Yun‐Ping Lee, Chia‐Wei Kao, Yu‐Chun Wang, Yi‐Lin Chen, Cheng‐Han Lin, Tsunglin Liu, Huey‐Pin Tsai, Jen‐Ren Wang, Ih‐Jen Su, Wenya Huang – 19 January 2018 – Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is the major cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The pre‐S2 mutant large HBV surface antigen (LHBS) is highly associated with HCC.

Jasmohan S. Bajaj, Ramazan Idilman, Leila Mabudian, Matthew Hood, Andrew Fagan, Dilara Turan, Melanie B. White, Fatih Karakaya, Jessica Wang, Rengül Atalay, Phillip B. Hylemon, Edith A. Gavis, Robert Brown, Leroy R. Thacker, Chathur Acharya, Douglas M. Heuman, Masoumeh Sikaroodi, Patrick M. Gillevet – 19 January 2018 – The relative ranking of cirrhosis‐related deaths differs between high‐/middle‐income countries. Gut microbiome is affected in cirrhosis and is related to diet. Our aim was to determine the effect of differing dietary habits on gut microbiota and clinical outcomes.

Neil Mehta, Francis Y. Yao – 19 January 2018

Seisuke Sakamoto, Kengo Sasaki, Toshihiro Kitajima, Yoshihiro Hirata, Soichi Narumoto, Kourosh Kazemi, Akinari Fukuda, Osamu Miyazaki, Shunsuke Nosaka, Mureo Kasahara – 19 January 2018

Christi Titus Varghese, Viju Kumar Bharathan, Unnikrishnan Gopalakrishnan, Dinesh Balakrishnan, Ramachandran N. Menon, Othiyil Vayoth Sudheer, Puneet Dhar, Surendran Sudhindran – 19 January 2018 – Despite advances in the practice of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), the optimum surgical approach with respect to the middle hepatic vein (MHV) in right lobe LDLT remains undefined.