Kevin P. Charpentier, Arun Mavanur – 27 February 2008 – Guidelines are in place regarding who is a candidate for liver transplantation. Once a potential candidate is listed, there are no uniform guidelines indicating when he should be removed from the list because of a change in clinical status. A survey with 14 scenarios was sent to the medical and surgical directors of all liver transplant programs in the United States. In each scenario, clinical information was provided about a patient active on the transplant wait list.

Andre M. De Wolf, Shushma Aggarwal – 27 February 2008

William M. Lee – 27 February 2008

Soo Hyung Ryu, Young‐Hwa Chung, Hyunseung Lee, Jeong A. Kim, Hyun Deok Shin, Hyun Joo Min, Dong Dae Seo, Myoung Kuk Jang, Eunsil Yu, Kyu‐Won Kim – 27 February 2008 – Metastatic tumor antigen 1 (MTA1) is known to play a role in angiogenic processes as a stabilizer of hypoxia‐inducible factor 1‐α (HIF1‐α). In this study, we examined whether overexpression of MTA1 affects the recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after surgical resection and the survival of the patients. A total of 506 HCC patients who underwent hepatic resection were included in the study.

Thomas Johnston, Hoonbae Jeon, Roberto Gedaly, Dinesh Ranjan – 27 February 2008

Dominique Thabut, Khalid Tazi, Dominique Bonnefont‐Rousselot, Richard Moreau, Didier Lebrec – 27 February 2008

Zhiping Li – 27 February 2008

M. Behnan Sahin, Robert E. Schwartz, Shannon M. Buckley, Yves Heremans, Lucas Chase, Wei‐Shou Hu, Catherine M. Verfaillie – 27 February 2008 – Widespread use of liver transplantation in the treatment of hepatic diseases is restricted by the limited availability of donated organs. One potential solution to this problem would be isolation and propagation of liver progenitor cells or stem cells. Here, we report on the isolation of a novel progenitor cell population from unmanipulated (that is, no prior exposure to chemicals and no injury) adult rat liver.

Koichi Watashi, Herold J. Metselaar, Luc J. W. van der Laan – 27 February 2008

Youichi Kawano, Koichi Mizuta, Shuji Hishikawa, Satoshi Egami, Takehito Fujiwara, Masanobu Hyodo, Yoshikazu Yasuda, Tomonori Yano, Katsuyuki Nakazawa, Hironori Yamamoto, Hideo Kawarasaki – 27 February 2008