Ji‐Yuan Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Fang Lin, Zheng‐Sheng Zou, Ruo‐Nan Xu, Lei Jin, Jun‐Liang Fu, Feng Shi, Ming Shi, Hui‐Fen Wang, Fu‐Sheng Wang – 23 December 2009 – Interleukin‐17 (IL‐17)‐producing CD4+ T cells (Th17)‐mediated immune response has been demonstrated to play a critical role in inflammation‐associated disease; however, its role in chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains unknown.

Michelina Nascimbeni, Thomas Montange, Helen K. W. Law, Vincent Mallet, Bertrand Saunier, Yves Rivière, Stanislas Pol – 23 December 2009

William C. Chapman – 23 December 2009

Alexander Koch, Christian Trautwein – 23 December 2009

Michael Kremer, Emmanuel Thomas, Richard J. Milton, Ashley W. Perry, Nico van Rooijen, Michael D. Wheeler, Steven Zacks, Michael Fried, Richard A. Rippe, Ian N. Hines – 23 December 2009 – Hepatosteatosis is associated with increased expression of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF‐α) and interleukin (IL)‐12, major T helper (Th) 1 cytokines, and reduced hepatic natural killer T (NKT) cell numbers. The relationship between lipid accumulation, cytokine expression, and hepatic NKT cells is not known.

Nathan M. Bass – 23 December 2009

Xun Zhang, Justin Schwartz, Venkat K. Ramshesh, Peter Pediaditakis, Ekhson Holmuhamedov, Zhi Zhong, Tom P. Theruvath, John J. Lemasters – 23 December 2009

Chia‐Chi Wang, Jia‐Horng Kao – 23 December 2009

Thomas D. Boyer, Ziv J. Haskal – 23 December 2009

John Halliday, Julie Lokan, Peter W. Angus, Paul Gow – 23 December 2009