Chiara Rosso, Lavinia Mezzabotta, Melania Gaggini, Federico Salomone, Roberto Gambino, Andrea Marengo, Francesca Saba, Ester Vanni, Ramy Younes, Chiara Saponaro, Emma Buzzigoli, Gian Paolo Caviglia, Maria Lorena Abate, Antonina Smedile, Mario Rizzetto, Maurizio Cassader, Amalia Gastaldelli, Elisabetta Bugianesi – 16 October 2015 – Surrogate indexes of insulin resistance and insulin sensitivity are widely used in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), although they have never been validated in this population.

Koji Miyanishi, Masayoshi Kobune, Junji Kato – 16 October 2015

Agustín Albillos, Javier Martínez, Luis Téllez – 16 October 2015

Thomas R. O'Brien, Jordan J. Feld, Shyam Kottilil, Ruth M. Pfeiffer – 16 October 2015

Christabel Kelly, Leo Swadling, Stefania Capone, Anthony Brown, Rachel Richardson, John Halliday, Annette von Delft, Ye Oo, David Mutimer, Ayako Kurioka, Felicity Hartnell, Jane Collier, Virginia Ammendola, Mariarosaria Del Sorbo, Fabiana Grazioli, Maria Luisa Esposito, Stefania Di Marco, Loredana Siani, Cinzia Traboni, Adrian V.S.

Humberto Reyes – 16 October 2015

Robert S. Rahimi, Jacqueline G. O'Leary – 16 October 2015

Se‐Hyuk Kim, Yoon Jeon, Hyun‐Soo Kim, Jin‐Kwan Lee, Han Jeong Lim, Donglim Kang, Hyeseong Cho, Cheol‐Keun Park, Ho Lee, Chang‐Woo Lee – 12 October 2015 – Hepatocyte chromosome polyploidization is an important feature of liver development and seems to be required for response to liver stress and injury signals. However, the question of how polyploidization can be tightly regulated in liver growth remains to be answered. Using a conditional knockout mouse model, liver‐specific depletion of Ssu72 protein phosphatase was found to result in impairment in regulation of polyploidization.

Martina Goffredo, Sonia Caprio, Ariel E. Feldstein, Ebe D'Adamo, Melissa M. Shaw, Bridget Pierpont, Mary Savoye, Hongyu Zhao, Allen E. Bale, Nicola Santoro – 12 October 2015 – We assessed the association between the single‐nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs58542926 in the transmembrane 6 superfamily member 2 (TM6SF2) gene and fatty liver disease in obese youth. We genotyped the TM6SF2 rs58542926 SNP in a multiethnic cohort of 957 obese children and adolescents (42% Caucasians, 28% African Americans, 30% Hispanics).

Sachiyo Yoshio, Masaya Sugiyama, Hirotaka Shoji, Yohei Mano, Eiji Mita, Toru Okamoto, Yoshiharu Matsuura, Alato Okuno, Osamu Takikawa, Masashi Mizokami, Tatsuya Kanto – 12 October 2015 – Indoleamine‐2, 3‐dioxygenase (IDO), an interferon‐γ‐inducible enzyme catalyzing tryptophan into kynurenine, exerts dual functions in infectious diseases, acting as a suppressor of intracellular pathogens and as an immune regulator. We explored the roles of IDO in hepatitis B virus (HBV) clearance from infected patients.