POSTER SESSION IV Tuesday, February 14, 2006   —  1:00 - 4:30 PM Exhibit Level LIVER & PANCREAS 160 Preclonal p53 Loss And Telomere Lengthening In Random Hcv Cirrhosis Identify Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients (1315) LM Yerian, RA Risques, PS Rabinovitch, TA Brentnall, J Li, BL Shadrach, SL Herrmann, RA Anders, J Hart, MP Bronner - Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 161 Prognostic Significance Of Cell Cycle Proteins p53, p21, p27, p14, p16 And mdm2 In Hepatocellular Carcinomas (1304) AC Tsamandas, V Zolota, N Pagoni, T Petsas, C Karatza, CD Scopa - University of Patras School of Medicine, Patras, Greece 162 Correlation of Histological Changes is Hepatitis C with Preneoplasia and Hepatocellular Carcinoma — A Study of Liver Explants (1241) A Arslan, M Facciuto, G Ramaswamy - UMDNJ, RWJMS, New Brunswick, NJ; Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NJ 163 EGFR Expression and Gene Copy Number in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Arising in Cirrhotic and Non-cirrhotic Liver (1250) AF Buckley, LJ Burgart, S Kakar - VA and UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 164 Loss of Heterozygosity in Hepatocellular Neoplasia (1283) GS Mantha, JL Hunt, M Nalesnik - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 165 Expressional Disturbance of Periods (PERs) in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (1255) JH Chang, YM Lin, JG Chang - Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan; China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan 166 Does hTERT Expression in Nontumorous HCV Cirrhosis Identify HCC Patients? (1297) DP Schuetze, MP Bronner, LM Yerian, BL Shadrach - The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 167 Telomere Signals In Genotoxic And Nongenotoxic Carcinogen-Induced Hepatocellular Carcinomas In Rat: Evaluation By Quantitative Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (1273) P Kashireddy, MS Rao - Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 168 Telangiectatic Focal Nodular Hyperplasia: An Appraisal of Its Diagnostic Features in comparison to FNH and hepatocellualr adenoma. (1311) L Xie, G Levi, I Fiel, R Xu, M Magid, S Thung - The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 169 All-trans Retinoic Acid Suppresses TGF-²1-induced Activation of Rat Hepatic Stellate Cells (1266) GC Huang, QQ Tang, JS Zhang - Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 170 The Regulation Between AM and TGF-²1 and AM Regulates TGF-²1-stimulated MMP-2 Expression in Hepatic Stellate Cells (1309) Y Wang, J Qian, GC Huang, Q Chen, JS Zhang - Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China 171 Resistance of Mice Fed Methionine and Choline Deficient Diet to Acetaminophen Hepatotoxicity (1272) P Kashireddy, MS Rao - Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 172 HNF-4± Expression in Human Liver Regeneration after Massive Hepatic Necrosis (1308) AL Walls, GK Michalopoulos, AJ Demetris, ER Ochoa - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 173 Increased Liver Cell Steatosis And Apoptosis Represent A Mechanism Towards Increased Liver Injury In Experimental Acute Liver Failure (1270) C Kalogeropoulou, I Tsota, P Zabakis, T Petsas, AC Tsamandas - University of Patras School of Medicine, Patras, Greece 174 Cytoplasmic Immunoreactivity of Thyroid Transcription Factor - 1 (TTF-1) in Hepatocytes: True Positivity or Cross Reaction? (1265) K Gu, V Shah, C Ma, M Yang - Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 175 Morphologic Characterization of Explanted Liver-derived Insulin-Producing Beta-Like Cells (1314) L Yang, JM Crawford - University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 176 Von-Meyenburg Complexes Increase With Age And Are Specifically Associated With Alcoholic Cirrhosis And End-Stage Hepatitis B Infection (1234) SC Abraham, M Torbenson - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 177 Zone 3 Hepatocyte Giant Cell Transformation In The Setting Of HCV/HIV Coinfection (1285) STL Micchelli, JK Boitnott, MS Torbenson - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 178 Acute Hepatitis C In Non-Immunosuppressed Adults (1268) K Johnson, A Koteish, J Boitnott, M Torbenson - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 179 Quantitative Histological-Hemodynamic Correlations in Cirrhosis (1299) S Sethasine, D Jain, R Groszmann, G Garcia-Tsao - Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; CT-VA Health Care System, West Haven, CT 180 Is In-Situ Hybridization Testing Helpful in Detecting Hepatitis C Recurrence in Liver Transplant Patients? (1278) M Krishna, MS Ghabril, RV Lloyd, RE Nakhleh, RC Dickson - Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 181 CXCL10: An Important Determinant of Inflammation in Chronic HCV Infection? (1296) LM Petrovic, M Zeremski, Q Brown, L Chiriboga, H Yee, AH Talal - Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York University, New York, NY 182 Histologic Iron Content Does Not Correlate With Severity Of Histologic Disease In Hemodialysis Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C (1251) LK Campbell, J Sauk, T Troy, H Te, J Hart - University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL 183 Epstein-Barr Virus Hepatitis: Diagnostic Value of Immunohistochemistry, In Situ Hybridization and Polymerase Chain Reaction on Liver Biopsy (1301) N Suh, H Liapis, J Misdraji, EM Brunt, HL Wang - Washington University, Saint Louis University St. Louis, MO; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 184 Increased Bax/Bcl-2 Ratio Upregulates Caspase-3 And Increases Apoptosis In Experimental Fatty Liver Disease (1271) C Kalogeropoulou, I Tsota, P Zabakis, T Kourelis, T Petsas, AC Tsamandas - Univ of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece; Univ of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece 185 Paired Wedge and Needle biopsies in Histological Evaluation of Fatty Liver Disease (1267) H Ji, MS Torbenson, TH Magnuson, MA Schweitzer - The Johns Hopkins Medical Insititutions, Baltimore, MD 186 Comparison And Significance Of Biopsies Obtained By Percutaneous And Laparoscopic Methods In Hepatitis C Patients (1244) PA Bejarano, M Nassiri, R Cortez, L Jeffers - University of Miami, Miami, FL 187 Characterization of Peripheral Blood Lymphocyte Chimerism in Orthotopic Liver Transplant (OLTX) Recipients: Potentials for Early Detection of Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) in Liver Transplant Patients (1290) GJ Netto, D Smith, E Agura, G Klintmalm, R Domiatti-Saad - Baylor University Medical Centre, Dallas, TX 188 Incidence and Pathological Features of Malignancies Developing in Liver Allografts Post Orthotopic Liver Transplantation (1312) R Xu, L Xie, MI Fiel, G Levi, S Thung - The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 189 Late-onset Centrilobular Necrosis in Liver Allografts: Does Humorally Mediated Rejection Play a Role? (1239) G Alvarez, H Liapis, HL Wang - Washington University, St. Louis, MO 190 Long Term Survival in Orthotopic Liver Transplant Patients with Hepatopulmonary Syndrome. (1282) X Liu, M Fallon, B McGuire, S Bynon, D Eckhoff, A Lazenby, N Jhala - University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL