Anping Chen, Youcai Tang, Victoria Davis, Fong‐Fu Hsu, Susan M. Kennedy, Haowei Song, John Turk, Elizabeth M. Brunt, Elizabeth P. Newberry, Nicholas O. Davidson – 11 February 2013 – Activation of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) is crucial to the development of fibrosis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Quiescent HSCs contain lipid droplets (LDs), whose depletion upon activation induces a fibrogenic gene program.

Wim Laleman, Macarena Simon‐Talero, Geert Maleux, Mercedes Perez, Koen Ameloot, German Soriano, Jordi Villalba, Juan‐Carlos Garcia‐Pagan, Marta Barrufet, Rajiv Jalan, Jocelyn Brookes, Evangelos Thalassinos, Andrew K. Burroughs, Juan Cordoba, Frederik Nevens, on behalf of the EASL‐CLIF‐Consortium – 7 February 2013 – Refractory hepatic encephalopathy (HE) remains a major cause of morbidity in cirrhosis patients. Large spontaneous portosystemic shunts (SPSSs) have been previously suggested to sustain HE in these patients.

Phil McEwan, Thomas Ward, Yong Yuan, Ray Kim, Gilbert L'Italien – 6 February 2013 – Recent United States guidelines recommend one‐time birth cohort testing for hepatitis C infection in persons born between 1945 and 1965; this represents a major public health policy undertaking. The purpose of this study was to assess the role of treatment timing and prioritization on predicted cost‐effectiveness.

Neil Kaplowitz – 6 February 2013

Juan Pablo Arab, Luis Meneses, Rosa M. Pérez, Marco Arrese, Carlos Benítez – 6 February 2013

Romina Mancinelli, Antonio Franchitto, Shannon Glaser, Fanyin Meng, Paolo Onori, Sharon DeMorrow, Heather Francis, Julie Venter, Guido Carpino, Kimberley Baker, Yuyan Han, Yoshiyuki Ueno, Eugenio Gaudio, Gianfranco Alpini – 6 February 2013 – Large, but not small, cholangiocytes (1) secrete bicarbonate by interaction with secretin receptors (SRs) through activation of cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR), Cl−/HCO3− (apex) anion exchanger 2 (Cl−/HCO3− AE2), and adenylyl cyclase (AC)8 (proteins regulating large biliary functions) and (2) proliferate in response to bile duct ligation

Jasmohan S. Bajaj, Leroy R. Thacker, Douglas M. Heuman, Michael Fuchs, Richard K. Sterling, Arun J. Sanyal, Puneet Puri, Mohammad S. Siddiqui, Richard T. Stravitz, Iliana Bouneva, Velimir Luketic, Nicole Noble, Melanie B. White, Pamela Monteith, Ariel Unser, James B. Wade – 6 February 2013 – Minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) detection is difficult because of the unavailability of short screening tools. Therefore, MHE patients can remain undiagnosed and untreated. The aim of this study was to use a Stroop smartphone application (app) (EncephalApp_Stroop) to screen for MHE.

Nadia Warner, Stephen Locarnini – 6 February 2013

R. Todd Stravitz, Regina Bowling, Robert L. Bradford, Nigel S. Key, Sam Glover, Leroy R. Thacker, Don A. Gabriel – 6 February 2013 – Microparticles (MPs), membrane fragments of 0.1‐1.0 μm, are derived from many cell types in response to systemic inflammation. Acute liver failure (ALF) is a prototypical syndrome of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) associated with a procoagulant state. We hypothesized that patients with ALF develop increased procoagulant MPs in proportion to the severity of systemic complications and adverse outcome.

Yun‐Yong Park, Sang‐Bae Kim, Hee Dong Han, Bo Hwa Sohn, Ji Hoon Kim, Jiyong Liang, Yiling Lu, Cristian Rodriguez‐Aguayo, Gabriel Lopez‐Berestein, Gordon B. Mills, Anil K. Sood, Ju‐Seog Lee – 6 February 2013 – Metabolic changes are common features of many cancer cells and are frequently associated with the clinical outcome of patients with various cancers, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Thus, aberrant metabolic pathways in cancer cells are attractive targets for cancer therapy.