CD14 and cirrhosis of liver: Our study revealed correlations between CD14+CD16+ monocytes and pro-inflammatory cytokines/chemokines in patients as well as a preferential secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines by this subset, suggesting that the increase of CD14+CD16+ monocytes in patients with liver cirrhosis as the ‘inflammatory monocyte subset’ thereby mirrors the increase of Gr1hi monocytes in murine models.