Melania Manco, Paolo Ciampalini, Valerio Nobili – 23 May 2010

Jun Yu, Bo Shen, Eagle S. H. Chu, Narci Teoh, Kin‐Fai Cheung, Chung‐Wah Wu, Shiyan Wang, Cleo N. Y. Lam, Hai Feng, Junhong Zhao, Alfred S. L. Cheng, Ka‐Fai To, Henry L. Y. Chan, Joseph J. Y. Sung – 23 May 2010 – Although peroxisome proliferator‐activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) agonist have been shown to inhibit hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development, the role of PPARγ in hepatocarcinogenesis remains unclear. We investigated the therapeutic efficacy of PPARγ against HCC.

Vincenzo La Mura, Juan G. Abraldes, Annalisa Berzigotti, Eva Erice, Alexandra Flores‐Arroyo, Juan Carlos García‐Pagán, Jaime Bosch – 23 May 2010 – Hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG), the difference between wedge and free hepatic venous pressure, is the preferred method for estimating portal pressure. However, it has been suggested that hepatic atrial pressure gradient (HAPG)—the gradient between wedge hepatic venous pressure and right atrial pressure (RAP)—might better reflect variceal hemodynamics.

Alain Braillon – 23 May 2010

David Frank Dies – 23 May 2010

Savino Bruno, Andrea Crosignani, Corinna Facciotto, Sonia Rossi, Luigi Roffi, Alessandro Redaelli, Roberto de Franchis, Piero Luigi Almasio, Patrick Maisonneuve – 23 May 2010 – The incidence of de novo development of esophageal varices (EV) in patients with compensated liver cirrhosis has been determined by few studies in the short term and never in the long term.

Michael P. Manns, Albert J. Czaja, James D. Gorham, Edward L. Krawitt, Giorgina Mieli‐Vergani, Diego Vergani, John M. Vierling – 23 May 2010

Alexander I. Aspinall, Stuart M. Curbishley, Patricia F. Lalor, Chris J. Weston, Miroslava Blahova, Evaggelia Liaskou, Rebecca M. Adams, Andrew P. Holt, David H. Adams – 23 May 2010 – The liver contains macrophages and myeloid dendritic cells (mDCs) that are critical for the regulation of hepatic inflammation. Most hepatic macrophages and mDCs are derived from monocytes recruited from the blood through poorly understood interactions with hepatic sinusoidal endothelial cells (HSECs). Human CD16+ monocytes are thought to contain the precursor populations for tissue macrophages and mDCs.

Heidi Menrad, Christian Werno, Tobias Schmid, Ekaterini Copanaki, Thomas Deller, Nathalie Dehne, Bernhard Brüne – 23 May 2010 – Hypoxia‐inducible factors (HIFs) provoke adaptation to hypoxic stress occurring in rapidly growing tumor tissues. Therefore, overexpression of HIF‐1 or HIF‐2 is a common feature in hepatocellular carcinoma but their specific function is still controversially discussed. To analyze HIF function in hypoxia‐induced cell death we created a stable knockdown of HIF‐1α and HIF‐2α in HepG2 cells and generated tumor spheroids as an in vitro hepatocellular carcinoma model.

Alexander J.V. Thompson, Tin Nguyen, David Iser, Anna Ayres, Kathy Jackson, Margaret Littlejohn, John Slavin, Scott Bowden, Edward J. Gane, William Abbott, George K.K. Lau, Sharon R. Lewin, Kumar Visvanathan, Paul V. Desmond, Stephen A.