Luigia Florimonte, Massimo Iavarone, Massimo Castellani, Mariagiulia Longo, Francesco Pallotti, Lorenzo Maffioli, Eva Orunesu, Riccardo Benti – 10 March 2017

Norie Yamada, Ryuichi Sugiyama, Sayuri Nitta, Asako Murayama, Minoru Kobayashi, Chiaki Okuse, Michihiro Suzuki, Kiyomi Yasuda, Hiroshi Yotsuyanagi, Kyoji Moriya, Kazuhiko Koike, Takaji Wakita, Takanobu Kato – 9 March 2017 – The emergence of resistance mutations in the reverse transcriptase gene of hepatitis B virus (HBV) is associated with treatment failure. Entecavir (ETV) is one of the most potent anti‐HBV reagents; it has a very low resistance rate and is used as the first‐line treatment for chronic hepatitis B.

This webinar will review this latest controversy regarding the increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence in patients receiving direct acting antiviral agents for the treatment of HCV. Recent studies have suggested that HCC recurrence is increased in HCV patients receiving direct antiviral agents.Michael D. Leise (Moderator) Dr.

Francesca Campagna, Sara Montagnese, Lorenzo Ridola, Marco Senzolo, Sami Schiff, Michele De Rui, Chiara Pasquale, Silvia Nardelli, Ilaria Pentassuglio, Carlo Merkel, Paolo Angeli, Oliviero Riggio, Piero Amodio – 8 March 2017 – Screening for hepatic encephalopathy (HE) that does not cause obvious disorientation or asterixis (minimal HE [MHE]/grade 1 HE) is important. We examined if the animal naming test (ANT1) (maximum number of animals listed in 1 minute) is useful in this context.

Xiaojiaoyang Li, Runping Liu, Jing Yang, Lixin Sun, Luyong Zhang, Zhenzhou Jiang, Puneet Puri, Emily C. Gurley, Guanhua Lai, Yuping Tang, Zhiming Huang, William M. Pandak, Phillip B. Hylemon, Huiping Zhou – 8 March 2017 – The multidrug resistance 2 knockout (Mdr2–/–) mouse is a well‐established model of cholestatic cholangiopathies. Female Mdr2–/– mice develop more severe hepatobiliary damage than male Mdr2–/– mice, which is correlated with a higher proportion of taurocholate in the bile.

Lei Wang, Wen Zhang, Chang‐Hui Ge, Rong‐Hua Yin, Yang Xiao, Yi‐Qun Zhan, Miao Yu, Chang‐Yan Li, Zhi‐Qiang Ge, Xiao‐Ming Yang – 8 March 2017 – Toll‐like receptor‐5 (TLR5) signaling regulates the immune privileged status of the liver and is involved in hepatic immune disorders. However, the role of TLR5 has not yet been investigated in experimental models of concanavalin A (Con A)–mediated liver injury. Here, we show that TLR5 is highly up‐regulated in the hepatic mononuclear cells of mice during Con A–induced hepatitis.

Francesca Campagna, Sara Montagnese, Lorenzo Ridola, Marco Senzolo, Sami Schiff, Michele De Rui, Chiara Pasquale, Silvia Nardelli, Ilaria Pentassuglio, Carlo Merkel, Paolo Angeli, Oliviero Riggio, Piero Amodio – 8 March 2017 – Screening for hepatic encephalopathy (HE) that does not cause obvious disorientation or asterixis (minimal HE [MHE]/grade 1 HE) is important. We examined if the animal naming test (ANT1) (maximum number of animals listed in 1 minute) is useful in this context.

Brian E. Hsu, Peter M. Siegel – 7 March 2017

Christophe Hézode, Massimo Colombo, Marc Bourlière, Ulrich Spengler, Ziv Ben‐Ari, Simone I. Strasser, William M. Lee, Leslie Morgan, Jingjun Qiu, Peggy Hwang, Michael Robertson, Bach‐Yen Nguyen, Eliav Barr, Janice Wahl, Barbara Haber, Robert Chase, Rohit Talwani, Vito Di Marco, on behalf of the C‐EDGE IBLD Study Investigators – 3 March 2017 – Direct‐acting antiviral agents have not been studied exclusively in patients with inherited blood disorders and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.

Paramananda Saikia, Damien Bellos, Megan R. McMullen, Katherine A. Pollard, Carol de la Motte, Laura E. Nagy – 3 March 2017 – Increased inflammatory signaling by Kupffer cells contributes to alcoholic liver disease (ALD). Here we investigated the impact of small, specific‐sized hyaluronic acid of 35 kD (HA35) on ethanol‐induced sensitization of Kupffer cells, as well as ethanol‐induced liver injury in mice. Unbiased analysis of microRNA (miRNA) expression in Kupffer cells identified miRNAs regulated by both ethanol and HA35.