Wei‐Tien Tai, Yao‐Li Chen, Pei‐Yi Chu, Li‐Ju Chen, Man‐Hsin Hung, Chung‐Wai Shiau, Jui‐Wen Huang, Ming‐Hsien Tsai, Kuen‐Feng Chen – 3 February 2016 – The effective therapeutic targets for hepatocellular carcinoma remain limited. Pituitary homeobox 1 (PITX1) functions as a tumor suppressor in hepatocarcinogenesis by regulating the expression level of Ras guanosine triphosphatase‐activating protein. Here, we report that protein tyrosine phosphatases 1B (PTP1B) directly dephosphorylated PITX1 at Y160, Y175, and Y179 to further weaken the protein stability of PITX.

Michael G. Ison – 2 February 2016

Sami Schiff, Mariella Casa, Valeria Di Caro, Daniele Aprile, Giuseppe Spinelli, Michele De Rui, Paolo Angeli, Piero Amodio, Sara Montagnese – 2 February 2016 – Electroencephalography (EEG) is useful to objectively diagnose/grade hepatic encephalopathy (HE) across its spectrum of severity. However, it requires expensive equipment, and hepatogastroenterologists are generally unfamiliar with its acquisition/interpretation.

Michel Rayar, Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri, Caterina Cusumano, Nicolas Lombard, Mohamed Lakehal, Veronique Desfourneaux, Bernard Meunier, Laurent Sulpice, Karim Boudjema – 29 January 2016

Vivek Vij – 29 January 2016

Joel T. Adler, Heidi Yeh – 29 January 2016

Ahmed Akhter, Abhishek Pulla, Adnan Said – 29 January 2016

Christopher Moore – 29 January 2016

Asahi Sato, Toshimi Kaido, Taku Iida, Shintaro Yagi, Koichiro Hata, Hideaki Okajima, Shunji Takakura, Satoshi Ichiyama, Shinji Uemoto – 29 January 2016 – Infection is a life‐threatening complication after liver transplantation (LT). A recent outbreak of multidrug‐resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa triggered changes in our infection control measures. This study investigated the usefulness of our bundled interventions against postoperative infection after LT.

Omobonike Oloruntoba, Andrew J. Muir – 29 January 2016