Carl L. Berg, Robert M. Merion, Tempie H. Shearon, Kim M. Olthoff, Robert S. Brown, Talia B. Baker, Gregory T. Everson, Johnny C. Hong, Norah Terrault, Paul H. Hayashi, Robert A. Fisher, James E. Everhart – 17 June 2011 – Receipt of a living donor liver transplant (LDLT) has been associated with improved survival compared with waiting for a deceased donor liver transplant (DDLT).

Neeraj Bhala, Paul Angulo, David van der Poorten, Eric Lee, Jason M. Hui, Giorgio Saracco, Leon A. Adams, Phunchai Charatcharoenwitthaya, Joanne H. Topping, Elisabetta Bugianesi, Christopher P. Day, Jacob George – 17 June 2011 – Information on the long‐term prognosis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is limited. We sought to describe the long‐term morbidity and mortality of patients with NAFLD with advanced fibrosis or cirrhosis by prospectively studying 247 such patients from four international centers (in Australia, USA, UK and Italy).

Deshui Jia, Lin Wei, Weijie Guo, Ruopeng Zha, Meiyan Bao, Zhiao Chen, Yingjun Zhao, Chao Ge, Fangyu Zhao, Taoyang Chen, Ming Yao, Jinjun Li, Hongyang Wang, Jianren Gu, Xianghuo He – 17 June 2011 – A powerful way to identify driver genes with causal roles in carcinogenesis is to detect genomic regions that undergo frequent alterations in cancers. Here we identified 1,241 regions of somatic copy number alterations in 58 paired hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tumors and adjacent nontumor tissues using genome‐wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) 6.0 arrays.

Tan To Cheung, See Ching Chan, Chi Lai Ho, Kenneth Siu Ho Chok, Albert Chi Yan Chan, William Wei Sharr, Kelvin Kwok Chai Ng, Ronnie Tung Ping Poon, Chung Mau Lo, Sheung Tat Fan – 17 June 2011 – Microvascular invasion is a poor prognostic indicator of the recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after surgical treatment. Positron emission tomography (PET) with [18F]fludeoxyglucose ([18F]FDG) as a tracer has been employed to predict the prognosis before surgery for various kinds of tumors, but it has not been found to be sensitive enough for HCC.

Heidi Barth, Jolanta Rybczynska, Romuald Patient, Youkyung Choi, Ronda K. Sapp, Thomas F. Baumert, Kris Krawczynski, T. Jake Liang – 14 June 2011 – Understanding the immunological correlates associated with protective immunity following hepatitis C virus (HCV) reexposure is a prerequisite for the design of effective HCV vaccines and immunotherapeutics. In this study we performed a comprehensive analysis of innate and adaptive immunity following HCV reexposure of two chimpanzees that had previously recovered from HCV‐JFH1 infection.

Vincent Di Martino, Carine Richou, Jean‐Paul Cervoni, Jose M. Sanchez‐Tapias, Donald M. Jensen, Alessandra Mangia, Maria Buti, Frances Sheppard, Peter Ferenci, Thierry Thévenot – 14 June 2011 – Response‐guided pegylated interferon (peg‐IFN) plus ribavirin (P/R) therapy trials on genotype (G)1 and G2/G3 hepatitis C virus–infected patients provide contradictory results. We conducted meta‐analyses of randomized, controlled trials to address (1) the benefit of a 72‐week extended‐duration therapy in G1‐slow responders and (2) adequate shortened duration therapy in G1 and G2/G3‐rapid responders.

Hong Li, Chao Ge, Fangyu Zhao, Mingxia Yan, Chen Hu, Deshui Jia, Hua Tian, Miaoxin Zhu, Taoyang Chen, Guoping Jiang, Haiyang Xie, Ying Cui, Jianren Gu, Hong Tu, Xianghuo He, Ming Yao, Yongzhong Liu, Jinjun Li – 14 June 2011 – Angiopoietin‐like protein 4 (ANGPTL4) plays complex and often contradictory roles in vascular biology and tumor metastasis, but little is known about its function in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) metastasis.

Carlos A. Apestegui, Olivier Julliard, Olga Ciccarelli, Dhang Khahn Ho Minh Duc, Jan Lerut – 14 June 2011

Abdul M. Oseini, Roongruedee Chaiteerakij, Abdirashid M. Shire, Amaar Ghazale, Joseph Kaiya, Catherine D. Moser, Ileana Aderca, Teresa A. Mettler, Terry M. Therneau, Lizhi Zhang, Naoki Takahashi, Suresh T. Chari, Lewis R. Roberts – 14 June 2011 – Elevated serum immunoglobulin G4 (sIgG4) is a feature of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) and IgG4‐associated cholangitis (IAC); a >2‐fold increase in sIgG4 is considered highly specific for these disorders.

Runqiu Jiang, Zhongming Tan, Lei Deng, Yun Chen, Yongxiang Xia, Yun Gao, Xuehao Wang, Beicheng Sun – 14 June 2011 – Interleukin‐22 (IL‐22), one of the cytokines secreted by T helper 17 (Th17) cells, was recently reported to be a novel inflammation driver through STAT3 signaling activation. We aimed to investigate the role of IL‐22 expression in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We demonstrated significant up‐regulation of IL‐22 in human HCC tumor infiltrated leukocytes (TILs) compared to peripheral lymphocytes.