Tien‐Hau Lien, Mei‐Hwei Chang, Jia‐Feng Wu, Huey‐Ling Chen, Hung‐Chang Lee, An‐Chyi Chen, Mao‐Meng Tiao, Tzee‐Chung Wu, Yao‐Jong Yang, Chieh‐Chung Lin, Ming‐Wei Lai, Hong‐Yuan Hsu, Yen‐Hsuan Ni, the Taiwan Infant Stool Color Card Study Group – 6 October 2010 – In Taiwan, a screening system using an infant stool color card to promote the early diagnosis of biliary atresia (BA) was established in 2002. This study aimed to investigate the 5‐year outcome of BA before and after using the screening program. BA patients were divided into three cohorts according to their birth dates.

Christine M. Hunt – 6 October 2010

Callisia Clarke, Satoshi Kuboki, Nozomu Sakai, Kevin R. Kasten, Amit D. Tevar, Rebecca Schuster, John Blanchard, Charles C. Caldwell, Michael J. Edwards, Alex B. Lentsch – 6 October 2010 – CXC chemokines mediate hepatic inflammation and injury following ischemia/reperfusion (I/R). More recently, signaling through CXC chemokine receptor‐2 (CXCR2) was shown to delay liver recovery and repair after I/R injury. The chemokine receptor CXCR1 shares ligands with CXCR2, yet nothing is known about its potential role in liver pathology.

Klaus Schulze‐ Osthoff, Heike Bantel – 6 October 2010

Terry Therneau – 6 October 2010

Jennifer R. Kramer, Christine Y. Hachem, Fasiha Kanwal, Minghua Mei, Hashem B. El‐Serag – 6 October 2010 – Coinfection with hepatitis A virus (HAV) or hepatitis B virus (HBV) in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has identified HAV and HBV vaccination as a priority area for quality measurement in HCV. It is unclear to what extent patients with HCV meet these recommendations.

David Kershenobich, Linda Muñoz, René Malé, Jesús Gaytan, Francisco Sánchez – 6 October 2010

Li‐Ping Ye, Xin‐Li Mao – 6 October 2010

Minggang Zhang, Sheng Xu, Yanmei Han, Xuetao Cao – 6 October 2010 – The liver, a unique tolerogenic organ, is regarded as the site to trap and destroy aging erythrocytes and activated T cells. However, to date, the mechanisms for why the liver is tolerogenic and whether liver Kupffer cells (KC) are critical phagocytes for apoptotic cells (AC) contributing to the liver immunosuppression remain unclear. Here we report that KC is the main phagocyte for AC in the liver.

Weiqin Chen, Benny Chang, Lan Li, Lawrence Chan – 5 October 2010