Table of contents

Original articles

Oesophagus

• Original article: Aberrant p53 protein expression is associated with an increased risk of neoplastic progression in patients with Barrett's oesophagus (20 December, 2012)

  Florine Kastelein, Katharina Biermann, Ewout W Steyerberg, Joanne Verheij, Marit Kalisvaart, Leendert H J Looijenga, Hans A Stoop, Laurens Walter, Ernst J Kuipers, Manon C W Spaander, Marco J Bruno, on behalf of the ProBar-study group
• Original article: Sex-specific associations between body mass index, waist circumference and the risk of Barrett's oesophagus: a pooled analysis from the international BEACON consortium (26 January, 2013)

  Ai Kubo, Michael Blaise Cook, Nicholas J Shaheen, Thomas L Vaughan, David C Whiteman, Liam Murray, Douglas A Corley

GI cancer

• Original article: Incidence of gastrointestinal cancers by ethnic group in England, 2001–2007 (23 October, 2012)

  Raghib Ali, Isobel Barnes, Benjamin J Cairns, Alexander E Finlayson, Neeraj Bhala, Mohandas Mallath, Valerie Beral

Endoscopy

• Original article: Narrow band imaging to differentiate neoplastic and non-neoplastic colorectal polyps in real time: a meta-analysis of diagnostic operating characteristics (7 January, 2013)

  Sarah K McGill, Evangelos Evangelou, John P A Ioannidis, Roy M Soetikno, Tonya Kaltenbach

Experimental colitis

• Original article: Neutralisation of the interleukin-33/ST2 pathway ameliorates experimental colitis through enhancement of mucosal healing in mice (21 November, 2012)

  Mamdouh A K Sedhom, Mélanie Pichery, Jenna R Murdoch, Benoit Foligné, Nathalie Ortega, Sylvain Normand, Kirsten Mertz, Devika Sanmugalingam, Lea Brault, Teddy Grandjean, Emma Lefrancais, Padraic G Fallon, Valérie Quesniaux, Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, Gieri Cathomas, Tobias Junt, Mathias Chamaillard, Jean-Philippe Girard, Bernhard Ryffel

Intestinal inflammation

• Original article: Glucagon-like peptide-1 as a treatment for chemotherapy-induced mucositis (20 October, 2012)

  Hannelouise Kissow, Bolette Hartmann, Jens Juul Holst, Steen Seier Poulsen

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Original article:

  Mucosal CXCR4⁺ IgG plasma cells contribute to the pathogenesis of human ulcerative colitis through FcγR-mediated CD14 macrophage activation

  (26 September, 2012)

  Michihide Uo, Tadakazu Hisamatsu, Jun Miyoshi, Daiki Kaito, Kazuaki Yoneno, Mina T Kitazume, Maiko Mori, Akira Sugita, Kazutaka Koganei, Katsuyoshi Matsuoka, Takanori Kanai, Toshifumi Hibi
• Original article:

  Butyricicoccus pullicaecorum in inflammatory bowel disease

  (22 December, 2012)

  Venessa Eeckhaut, Kathleen Machiels, Clémentine Perrier, Carlos Romero, Sofie Maes, Bram Flahou, Marjan Steppe, Freddy Haesebrouck, Benedikt Sas, Richard Ducatelle, Severine Vermeire, Filip Van Immerseel

Colon

• Original article: The enteric serotonergic system is altered in patients with diverticular disease (10 November, 2012)

  Martina Böttner, Martina Barrenschee, Ines Hellwig, Jonas Harde, Jan-Hendrik Egberts, Thomas Becker, Dimitri Zorenkov, Thilo Wedel

Pancreas

• Original article: Plasma antibodies to oral bacteria and risk of pancreatic cancer in a large European prospective cohort study (18 September, 2012)

  Dominique S Michaud, Jacques Izard, Charlotte S Wilhelm-Benartzi, Doo-Ho You, Verena A Grote, Anne Tjønneland, Christina C Dahm, Kim Overvad, Mazda Jenab, Veronika Fedirko, Marie Christine Boutron-Ruault, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Antoine Racine, Rudolf Kaaks, Heiner Boeing, Jana Foerster, Antonia Trichopoulou, Pagona Lagiou, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Carlotta Sacerdote, Sabina Sieri, Domenico Palli, Rosario Tumino, Salvatore Panico, Peter D Siersema, Petra HM Peeters, Eiliv Lund, Aurelio Barricarte, José-María Huerta, Esther Molina-Montes, Miren Dorronsoro, J Ramón Quirós, Eric J Duell, Weimin Ye, Malin Sund, Björn Lindkvist, Dorthe Johansen, Kay-Tee Khaw, Nick Wareham, Ruth C Travis, Paolo Vineis, H Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Elio Riboli
• Original article: Long-term outcomes of autoimmune pancreatitis: a multicentre, international analysis (11 December, 2012)

  Phil A Hart, Terumi Kamisawa, William R Brugge, Jae Bock Chung, Emma L Culver, László Czakó, Luca Frulloni, Vay Liang W Go, Thomas M Gress, Myung-Hwan Kim, Shigeyuki Kawa, Kyu Taek Lee, Markus M Lerch, Wei-Chih Liao, Matthias Löhr, Kazuichi Okazaki, Ji Kon Ryu, Nicolas Schleinitz, Kyoko Shimizu, Tooru Shimosegawa, Roy Soetikno, George Webster, Dhiraj Yadav, Yoh Zen, Suresh T Chari

Heptology

• Original article: Label-retaining liver cancer cells are relatively resistant to sorafenib (14 February, 2013) Free

  Hong-Wu Xin, Chenwi M Ambe, Danielle M Hari, Gordon W Wiegand, Tyler C Miller, Jin-Qiu Chen, Andrew J Anderson, Satyajit Ray, John E Mullinax, Tomotake Koizumi, Russell C Langan, Douglas Burka, Michelle A Herrmann, Paul K Goldsmith, Alexander Stojadinovic, Udo Rudloff, Snorri S Thorgeirsson, Itzhak Avital
• Original article: Intestinal microbiota determines development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in mice (29 November, 2012)

  Tiphaine Le Roy, Marta Llopis, Patricia Lepage, Aurélia Bruneau, Sylvie Rabot, Claudia Bevilacqua, Patrice Martin, Catherine Philippe, Francine Walker, André Bado, Gabriel Perlemuter, Anne-Marie Cassard-Doulcier, Philippe Gérard