Xiaolei Wang, Heng Du, Shanshan Shao, Tao Bo, Chunxiao Yu, Wenbin Chen, Lifang Zhao, Qiu Li, Li Wang, Xiaojing Liu, Xiaohui Su, Mingqi Sun, Yongfeng Song, Ling Gao, Jiajun Zhao – 21 January 2018 – Physiological opening of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) is indispensable for maintaining mitochondrial function and cell homeostasis, but the role of the mPTP and its initial factor, cyclophilin D (CypD), in hepatic steatosis is unclear. Here, we demonstrate that excess mPTP opening is mediated by an increase of CypD expression induced hepatic mitochondrial dysfunction.

Chia‐Jui Yen, Yu‐Lin Ai, Hung‐Wen Tsai, Shih‐Huang Chan, Chia‐Sheng Yen, Kuang‐Hsiung Cheng, Yun‐Ping Lee, Chia‐Wei Kao, Yu‐Chun Wang, Yi‐Lin Chen, Cheng‐Han Lin, Tsunglin Liu, Huey‐Pin Tsai, Jen‐Ren Wang, Ih‐Jen Su, Wenya Huang – 19 January 2018 – Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is the major cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The pre‐S2 mutant large HBV surface antigen (LHBS) is highly associated with HCC.

Amelia J. Hessheimer, Marina Vendrell, Javier Muñoz, Ángel Ruíz, Alba Díaz, Luís Flores Sigüenza, Jorge Rodríguez Lanzilotta, Eduardo Delgado Oliver, Jose Fuster, Miquel Navasa, Juan Carlos García‐Valdecasas, Pilar Taurá, Constantino Fondevila – 19 January 2018 – Ischemic‐type biliary lesions (ITBLs) arise most frequently after donation after circulatory death (DCD) liver transplantation and result in high morbidity and graft loss. Many DCD grafts are discarded out of fear for this complication.

David P. Foley – 19 January 2018

Christi Titus Varghese, Viju Kumar Bharathan, Unnikrishnan Gopalakrishnan, Dinesh Balakrishnan, Ramachandran N. Menon, Othiyil Vayoth Sudheer, Puneet Dhar, Surendran Sudhindran – 19 January 2018 – Despite advances in the practice of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), the optimum surgical approach with respect to the middle hepatic vein (MHV) in right lobe LDLT remains undefined.

Seisuke Sakamoto, Kengo Sasaki, Toshihiro Kitajima, Yoshihiro Hirata, Soichi Narumoto, Kourosh Kazemi, Akinari Fukuda, Osamu Miyazaki, Shunsuke Nosaka, Mureo Kasahara – 19 January 2018

Neil Mehta, Francis Y. Yao – 19 January 2018

Jasmohan S. Bajaj, Ramazan Idilman, Leila Mabudian, Matthew Hood, Andrew Fagan, Dilara Turan, Melanie B. White, Fatih Karakaya, Jessica Wang, Rengül Atalay, Phillip B. Hylemon, Edith A. Gavis, Robert Brown, Leroy R. Thacker, Chathur Acharya, Douglas M. Heuman, Masoumeh Sikaroodi, Patrick M. Gillevet – 19 January 2018 – The relative ranking of cirrhosis‐related deaths differs between high‐/middle‐income countries. Gut microbiome is affected in cirrhosis and is related to diet. Our aim was to determine the effect of differing dietary habits on gut microbiota and clinical outcomes.

Chia‐Jui Yen, Yu‐Lin Ai, Hung‐Wen Tsai, Shih‐Huang Chan, Chia‐Sheng Yen, Kuang‐Hsiung Cheng, Yun‐Ping Lee, Chia‐Wei Kao, Yu‐Chun Wang, Yi‐Lin Chen, Cheng‐Han Lin, Tsunglin Liu, Huey‐Pin Tsai, Jen‐Ren Wang, Ih‐Jen Su, Wenya Huang – 19 January 2018 – Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is the major cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The pre‐S2 mutant large HBV surface antigen (LHBS) is highly associated with HCC.

Shoichi Kageyama, Kojiro Nakamura, Takehiro Fujii, Bibo Ke, Rebecca A. Sosa, Elaine F. Reed, Nakul Datta, Ali Zarrinpar, Ronald W. Busuttil, Jerzy W. Kupiec‐Weglinski – 19 January 2018 – Hepatic ischemia‐reperfusion injury (IRI) represents a major risk factor of early graft dysfunction and acute/chronic rejection as well as a key obstacle to expanding the donor pool in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT).