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    Hepatology Research: Volume 45, Issue 7

    711-826
    July 2015
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Editorial

Is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease a systemic disease that promotes extrahepatic cancer development?

Masafumi Ono, 
  • Pages: 711-713
  • First Published: 06 July 2015

Original Articles

Clinical and molecular analyses of sporadic acute hepatitis A and E and the specific viral genotypes isolated in Iwate and three neighboring prefectures in the northern part of Honshu, Japan, between 2004 and 2013

Kazuyuki Suzuki,  Kojiro Kataoka,  Yasuhiro Miyamoto,  Akio Miyasaka,  Ichiro Kumagai,  Yasuhiro Takikawa,  Masaharu Takahashi,  Hiroaki Okamoto, 
  • Pages: 714-727
  • First Published: 22 August 2014

Predictors of malignancies and overall mortality in Japanese patients with biopsy-proven non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Yuya Seko,  Yoshio Sumida,  Saiyu Tanaka,  Hiroyoshi Taketani,  Kazuyuki Kanemasa,  Hiroshi Ishiba,  Akira Okajima,  Takeshi Nishimura,  Kanji Yamaguchi,  Michihisa Moriguchi,  Hironori Mitsuyoshi,  Kohichiroh Yasui,  Masahito Minami,  Yoshito Itoh, 
  • Pages: 728-738
  • First Published: 28 August 2014

Serum sodium concentration is associated with increased risk of mortality in patients with compensated liver cirrhosis

Takeji Umemura,  Soichiro Shibata,  Tomohiro Sekiguchi,  Hiroyuki Kitabatake,  Yuichi Nozawa,  Sadahisa Okuhara,  Takefumi Kimura,  Susumu Morita,  Michiharu Komatsu,  Akihiro Matsumoto,  Eiji Tanaka, 
  • Pages: 739-744
  • First Published: 28 August 2014

Efficacy of telaprevir-based therapy for difficult-to-treat patients with genotype 2 chronic hepatitis C in Japan

Hiromitsu Kumada,  Ken Sato,  Tetsuo Takehara,  Makoto Nakamuta,  Masatoshi Ishigami,  Kazuaki Chayama,  Joji Toyota,  Fumitaka Suzuki,  Yoshiyuki Nakayasu,  Miyoko Ochi,  Ichimaro Yamada,  Takeshi Okanoue, 
  • Pages: 745-754
  • First Published: 05 September 2014

Neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio as a prognostic indicator of hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy with arterial cisplatin plus continuous 5-fluorouracil

Kazuto Tajiri,  Kengo Kawai,  Masami Minemura,  Satoshi Yasumura,  Ayumu Hosokawa,  Hideto Kawabe,  Gakuto Tomizawa,  Toshiro Sugiyama, 
  • Pages: 755-763
  • First Published: 05 September 2014

Prevalence and risk factors of obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia and diabetes mellitus before and after adult living donor liver transplantation

Yasuyuki Hara,  Naoki Kawagishi,  Wataru Nakanishi,  Kazuaki Tokodai,  Chikashi Nakanishi,  Shigehito Miyagi,  Noriaki Ohuchi, 
  • Pages: 764-770
  • First Published: 05 September 2014

Lower levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 standard deviation score are associated with histological severity of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Yoshio Sumida,  Yoshikazu Yonei,  Saiyu Tanaka,  Kojiroh Mori,  Kazuyuki Kanemasa,  Shunsuke Imai,  Hiroyoshi Taketani,  Tasuku Hara,  Yuya Seko,  Hiroshi Ishiba,  Akira Okajima,  Kanji Yamaguchi,  Michihisa Moriguchi,  Hironori Mitsuyoshi,  Kohichiroh Yasui,  Masahito Minami,  Yoshito Itoh, 
  • Pages: 771-781
  • First Published: 28 August 2014

Epigenetic inactivation of transforming growth factor-β1 target gene HEYL, a novel tumor suppressor, is involved in the P53-induced apoptotic pathway in hepatocellular carcinoma

Kung-Kai Kuo,  Shu-Fang Jian,  Yi-Jin Li,  Shi-Wei Wan,  Ching-Chieh Weng,  KuanTe Fang,  Deng-Chyang Wu,  Kuang-Hung Cheng, 
  • Pages: 782-793
  • First Published: 02 September 2014

Inhibition of the CXCL12/CXCR4 chemokine axis with AMD3100, a CXCR4 small molecule inhibitor, worsens murine hepatic injury

Yedidya Saiman,  JingJing Jiao,  M. Isabel Fiel,  Scott L. Friedman,  Costica Aloman,  Meena B. Bansal, 
  • Pages: 794-803
  • First Published: 28 August 2014

Prolonged survival by combined treatment with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibitor in a rat small-for-size liver transplantation model

Li-Wen Hsu,  Toshiaki Nakano,  Kuang-Tzu Huang,  Chien-Chih Chen,  Kuang-Den Chen,  Chia-Yun Lai,  Shih-Ming Yang,  Chih-Che Lin,  Chih-Chi Wang,  Yu-Fan Cheng,  King-Wah Chiu,  Yur-Ren Kuo,  Shigeru Goto,  Chao-Long Chen, 
  • Pages: 804-813
  • First Published: 02 September 2014

Case Reports

Late-onset acetaminophen-induced allergic hepatitis with progression to chronicity

Masako Mishima-Iwai,  Ken Takahashi,  Masataka Yokode,  Yoshito Kimura,  Yugo Sawai,  Yoshihide Ueda,  Tsutomu Chiba, 
  • Pages: 814-817
  • First Published: 03 August 2014

Small bowel obstruction due to an unconjugated ursodeoxycholic acid enterolith following living donor liver transplantation: Report of a case

Shoichiro Mukai,  Takashi Onoe,  Hirotaka Tashiro,  Hideki Ohdan, 
  • Pages: 818-822
  • First Published: 05 August 2014
Open Access

Case of primary hepatic gastrinoma: Diagnostic usefulness of the selective arterial calcium injection test

Satoshi Ogawa,  Masaya Wada,  Masashi Fukushima,  Naoto Shimeno,  Satoko Inoue,  Hobyung Chung,  Mikio Fujita,  Yoshiki Suginoshita,  Akihiko Okada,  Tetsuro Inokuma,  Shintaro Yagi,  Kyo Ito,  Yukihiro Imai, 
  • Pages: 823-826
  • First Published: 22 August 2014