Jiacheng Bi, Qing Zhang, Dan Liang, Lei Xiong, Haiming Wei, Rui Sun, Zhigang Tian – 9 December 2013 – Uncontrolled natural killer (NK) cell activation during the early response to acute viral infection can lead to severe immunopathology, and the mechanisms NK cells use to achieve self‐tolerance in such contexts are currently unclear. Here, NK cells up‐regulated a coinhibitory receptor, T‐cell Ig and ITIM domain (TIGIT), during challenge with the viral double‐stranded RNA (dsRNA) analog poly I:C.

Dominique Thabut, Kiyoka Kinugawa, Nicolas Weiss – 9 December 2013

Cumali Efe, Tugrul Purnak, Ersan Ozaslan – 6 December 2013

Ulrike A. Köhler, Svitlana Kurinna, Dominik Schwitter, Andrea Marti, Matthias Schäfer, Claus Hellerbrand, Tobias Speicher, Sabine Werner – 6 December 2013 – The nuclear factor erythroid‐derived 2, like 2 (Nrf2) transcription factor is a key regulator of the antioxidant defense system, and pharmacological activation of Nrf2 is a promising strategy for prevention of toxin‐induced liver damage. However, the consequences of Nrf2 activation on liver regeneration (LR) have not been determined.

Chiun Hsu, Pei‐Jer Chen, Ann‐Lii Cheng – 6 December 2013

Jay A. Graham, James V. Guarrera – 4 December 2013

Stacy M. Horner – 4 December 2013

David Olagnier, John Hiscott – 4 December 2013

Nedim Hadžić, Roshni Vara – 29 November 2013

Tomoharu Yoshizumi, Toru Ikegami, Yuki Bekki, Mizuki Ninomiya, Hideaki Uchiyama, Tomohiro Iguchi, Yo‐Ichi Yamashita, Hirofumi Kawanaka, Ken Shirabe, Yoshihiko Maehara – 29 November 2013 – The limitations of donor age, graft size, and the Model for End‐Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score have not been apparent in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Our team developed a formula for predicting graft survival after LDLT; the formula includes the graft weight, donor age, MELD score, and portosystemic shunt status.