Mahmoud Abu‐Amara, Shi Yu Yang, Niteen Tapuria, Barry Fuller, Brian Davidson, Alexander Seifalian – 30 August 2010 – Liver ischemia/reperfusion (IR) injury is typified by an inflammatory response. Understanding the cellular and molecular events underpinning this inflammation is fundamental to developing therapeutic strategies. Great strides have been made in this respect recently. Liver IR involves a complex web of interactions between the various cellular and humoral contributors to the inflammatory response.

Eyal Shemesh – 30 August 2010

Amit K. Mathur, Douglas E. Schaubel, Qi Gong, Mary K. Guidinger, Robert M. Merion – 30 August 2010 – Access to liver transplantation is reportedly inequitable for racial/ethnic minorities, but inadequate adjustments for geography and disease progression preclude any meaningful conclusions. We aimed to evaluate the association between candidate race/ethnicity and liver transplant rates after thorough adjustments for these factors and to determine how uniform racial/ethnic disparities were across Model for End‐Stage Liver Disease (MELD) scores.

Tom Luedde – 27 August 2010 – Recurrent chromosomal aberrations are often observed in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but little is known about the functional non‐coding sequences, particularly microRNAs (miRNAs), at the chromosomal breakpoints in HCC. Here we show that 22 miRNAs are often amplified or deleted in HCC. MicroRNA‐151 (miR‐151), a frequently amplified miRNA on 8q24.3, is correlated with intrahepatic metastasis of HCC.

Elizabeth J. Carey, D. Eric Steidley, Bashar A. Aqel, Thomas J. Byrne, Kristin L. Mekeel, Jorge Rakela, Hugo E. Vargas, David D. Douglas – 27 August 2010 – The 6‐minute walk distance (6MWD) is a simple test measuring global physical function. It is commonly used to predict mortality in patients with cardiac and pulmonary diseases, but it is also useful in assessing the functional status of patients with a variety of other medical conditions.

Nicola Santoro, Romy Kursawe, Ebe D'Adamo, Daniel J. Dykas, Clarence K. Zhang, Allen E. Bale, Anna M. Calí, Deepak Narayan, Melissa M. Shaw, Bridget Pierpont, Mary Savoye, Derek Lartaud, Samuel Eldrich, Samuel W. Cushman, Hongyu Zhao, Gerald I. Shulman, Sonia Caprio – 27 August 2010 – The genetic factors associated with susceptibility to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in pediatric obesity remain largely unknown.

Alex J. Thompson, Paul J. Clark, John G. McHutchison – 27 August 2010

27 August 2010

Ricky Harminder Bhogal, Simon C. Afford – 27 August 2010

Toru Ikegami, Ken Shirabe, Yuji Soejima, Akinobu Taketomi, Yoshihiko Maehara – 27 August 2010