Targeting β‐catenin in hepatocellular cancers induced by coexpression of mutant β‐catenin and K‐Ras in mice

Junyan Tao, Rong Zhang, Sucha Singh, Minakshi Poddar, Emily Xu, Michael Oertel, Xin Chen, Shanthi Ganesh, Marc Abrams, Satdarshan P. Monga – 16 December 2016 – Recently, we have shown that coexpression of hMet and mutant‐β‐catenin using sleeping beauty transposon/transposase leads to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in mice that corresponds to around 10% of human HCC. In the current study, we investigate whether Ras activation, which can occur downstream of Met signaling, is sufficient to cause HCC in association with mutant‐β‐catenin.

Hemophilia Liver Transplantation Observational Study

Margaret V. Ragni, Abhinav Humar, Peter G. Stock, Emily A. Blumberg, Bijan Eghtesad, John J. Fung, Valentina Stosor, Nicholas Nissen, Michael T. Wong, Kenneth E. Sherman, Donald M. Stablein, Burc Barin – 9 December 2016 – Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the leading cause of liver disease in hemophilia patients. In those with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/HCV coinfection, the rate of liver disease progression is greater than in HCV monoinfected individuals. Despite antiretroviral therapy, which slows HCV liver disease progression, some require transplantation.

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