Table of contents

Original articles

Oesophagus

• Original article: Omeprazole blocks eotaxin-3 expression by oesophageal squamous cells from patients with eosinophilic oesophagitis and GORD (12 May, 2012)

  Edaire Cheng, Xi Zhang, Xiaofang Huo, Chunhua Yu, Qiuyang Zhang, David H Wang, Stuart Jon Spechler, Rhonda F Souza

Stomach

• Original article: Zinc-finger protein 545 is a novel tumour suppressor that acts by inhibiting ribosomal RNA transcription in gastric cancer (12 May, 2012)

  Shiyan Wang, Yingduan Cheng, Wan Du, Leina Lu, Liang Zhou, Huating Wang, Wei Kang, Xiaoxing Li, Qian Tao, Joseph J Y Sung, Jun Yu

Gut microbiota

• Original article:

  Weaning diet induces sustained metabolic phenotype shift in the pig and influences host response to Bifidobacterium lactis NCC2818

  (3 June, 2012)

  Claire Alexandra Merrifield, Marie Claire Lewis, Sandrine Paule Claus, Jake Thomas Midwinter Pearce, Olivier Cloarec, Swantje Duncker, Silke Sophie Heinzmann, Marc-Emmanuel Dumas, Sunil Kochhar, Serge Rezzi, Annick Mercenier, Jeremy Kirk Nicholson, Mick Bailey, Elaine Holmes

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Original article: Adipokines from local fat cells shape the macrophage compartment of the creeping fat in Crohn's disease (28 April, 2012)

  Lea Isabell Kredel, Arvind Batra, Thorsten Stroh, Anja A Kühl, Martin Zeitz, Ulrike Erben, Britta Siegmund

Colon

• Original article: Risk factors for advanced neoplasia within subcentimetric polyps: implications for diagnostic imaging (23 April, 2012)

  Frank Thomas Kolligs, Alexander Crispin, Anno Graser, Axel Munte, Ulrich Mansmann, Burkhard Göke
• Original article: Cumulative impact of common genetic variants and other risk factors on colorectal cancer risk in 42 103 individuals (5 April, 2012)

  Malcolm G Dunlop, Albert Tenesa, Susan M Farrington, Stephane Ballereau, David H Brewster, Thibaud Koessler, Paul Pharoah, Clemens Schafmayer, Jochen Hampe, Henry Völzke, Jenny Chang-Claude, Michael Hoffmeister, Hermann Brenner, Susanna von Holst, Simone Picelli, Annika Lindblom, Mark A Jenkins, John L Hopper, Graham Casey, David Duggan, Polly A Newcomb, Anna Abulí, Xavier Bessa, Clara Ruiz-Ponte, Sergi Castellví-Bel, Iina Niittymäki, Sari Tuupanen, Auli Karhu, Lauri Aaltonen, Brent Zanke, Tom Hudson, Steven Gallinger, Ella Barclay, Lynn Martin, Maggie Gorman, Luis Carvajal-Carmona, Axel Walther, David Kerr, Steven Lubbe, Peter Broderick, Ian Chandler, Alan Pittman, Steven Penegar, Harry Campbell, Ian Tomlinson, Richard S Houlston
• Original article: A novel myokine, secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine (SPARC), suppresses colon tumorigenesis via regular exercise (31 July, 2012)

  Wataru Aoi, Yuji Naito, Tomohisa Takagi, Yuko Tanimura, Yoshikazu Takanami, Yukari Kawai, Kunihiro Sakuma, Liu Po Hang, Katsura Mizushima, Yasuko Hirai, Ryota Koyama, Sayori Wada, Akane Higashi, Satoshi Kokura, Hiroshi Ichikawa, Toshikazu Yoshikawa

Pancreas

• Original article: Serotonin regulates amylase secretion and acinar cell damage during murine pancreatitis (16 May, 2012)

  Sabrina Sonda, Alberto B Silva, Kamile Grabliauskaite, Enrica Saponara, Achim Weber, Jae-Hwi Jang, Richard A Züllig, Martha Bain, Theresia Reding Graf, Adrian B Hehl, Rolf Graf

Hepatology

• Original article: Identification of fibroblast growth factor 15 as a novel mediator of liver regeneration and its application in the prevention of post-resection liver failure in mice (3 January, 2013)

  Iker Uriarte, Maite G Fernandez-Barrena, Maria J Monte, Maria U Latasa, Haisul C Y Chang, Simone Carotti, Umberto Vespasiani-Gentilucci, Sergio Morini, Eva Vicente, Axel R Concepcion, Juan F Medina, José Juan G Marin, Carmen Berasain, Jesus Prieto, Matías A Avila
• Original article: Cullin7: a new gene involved in liver carcinogenesis related to metabolic syndrome (1 September, 2012)

  Valerie Paradis, Miguel Albuquerque, Mouniya Mebarki, Lucie Hernandez, Stephane Zalinski, Samuel Quentin, Jacques Belghiti, Jean Soulier, Pierre Bedossa