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Research Article

• Mucus, pepsin, and peptic ulcer. (1 March, 1986)

  C W Venables
• Dietary essential fatty acids and the decline in peptic ulcer disease--a hypothesis. (1 March, 1986)

  D Hollander, A Tarnawski
• Mucus degradation by pepsin: comparison of mucolytic activity of human pepsin 1 and pepsin 3: implications in peptic ulceration. (1 March, 1986)

  J P Pearson, R Ward, A Allen, N B Roberts, W H Taylor
• Lithium fluxes across the gastric mucosa after truncal vagotomy and drainage--an objective assessment of mucosal injury. (1 March, 1986)

  M J Gough, L Woodhouse, G R Giles
• Is there a biochemical basis for lower oesophageal sphincter (LOS) resting pressure? (1 March, 1986)

  G Zaninotto, L Dalla Libera, S Merigliano, E Ancona
• Beta adrenergic influence on oesophageal peristalsis in man. (1 March, 1986)

  E Lyrenäs, H Abrahamsson
• Substance P-induced intestinal secretion of water and electrolytes. (1 March, 1986)

  D McFadden, M J Zinner, B M Jaffe
• Jejunal mucosal enzyme activities, regulatory peptides and organelle pathology of the enteropathy of common variable immunodeficiency. (1 March, 1986)

  J Dawson, M G Bryant, S R Bloom, T J Peters
• Chronic ethanol consumption selectively stimulates rectal cell proliferation in the rat. (1 March, 1986)

  U A Simanowski, H K Seitz, B Baier, B Kommerell, H Schmidt-Gayk, N A Wright
• Why do patients with faecal impaction have faecal incontinence. (1 March, 1986)

  N W Read, L Abouzekry
• Reproducibility of the proctometrogram. (1 March, 1986)

  J S Varma, A N Smith
• Human colonic smooth muscle: electrical and contractile activity in vitro. (1 March, 1986)

  R C Gill, K R Cote, K L Bowes, Y J Kingma
• Simultaneous measurement of gastric emptying, small bowel residence and colonic filling of a solid meal by the use of the gamma camera. (1 March, 1986)

  N W Read, M N Al-Janabi, A M Holgate, D C Barber, C A Edwards
• Effect of glucocorticoids on rectal transport in normal subjects and patients with ulcerative colitis. (1 March, 1986)

  G I Sandle, J P Hayslett, H J Binder
• In vitro effect of cyclosporin A on immunoglobulin production and concanavalin A induced suppression in primary biliary cirrhosis. (1 March, 1986)

  M N Al-Aghbar, G J Alexander, K T Nouri-Aria, J Neuberger, A L Eddleston, R Williams
• Anticomplement receptor activity in the serum of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis. (1 March, 1986)

  G Y Minuk, J Vergalla, R G Hanson, J H Hoofnagle, M M Frank, E A Jones
• Crohn's disease involving the penis. (1 March, 1986)

  G Slaney, S Muller, J Clay, A H Sumathipala, P Hillenbrand, H Thompson
• Dermoid cyst: a rare tumour of the appendix. (1 March, 1986)

  M H Cotton, J R Blake
• Strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfection associated with cimetidine in an immunosuppressed patient: diagnosis by endoscopic biopsy. (1 March, 1986)

  C C Ainley, D G Clarke, A R Timothy, R P Thompson
• Haemostatic problems in liver disease. (1 March, 1986)

  D A Kelly, E G Tuddenham