Table of contents

Original articles

Oesophagus

• Original article: Hospital and surgeon volume in relation to long-term survival after oesophagectomy: systematic review and meta-analysis (22 November, 2013)

  Nele Brusselaers, Fredrik Mattsson, Jesper Lagergren
• Original article:

  Genetic variation in the lymphotoxin-α (LTA)/tumour necrosis factor-α (TNFα) locus as a risk factor for idiopathic achalasia

  (20 November, 2013)

  Mira M Wouters, Diether Lambrechts, Jessica Becker, Isabelle Cleynen, Jan Tack, Ana G Vigo, Antonio Ruiz de León, Elena Urcelay, Julio Pérez de la Serna, Wout Rohof, Vito Annese, Anna Latiano, Orazio Palmieri, Manuel Mattheisen, Michaela Mueller, Hauke Lang, Uberto Fumagalli, Luigi Laghi, Giovanni Zaninotto, Rosario Cuomo, Giovanni Sarnelli, Markus M Nöthen, Séverine Vermeire, Michael Knapp, Ines Gockel, Johannes Schumacher, Guy E Boeckxstaens

Helicobacter pylori

• Original article:

  Ten day sequential versus 10 day modified bismuth quadruple therapy as empirical firstline and secondline treatment for Helicobacter pylori in Chinese patients: an open label, randomised, crossover trial

  (2 December, 2013)

  Kevin S H Liu, Ivan F N Hung, W K Walter Seto, Teresa Tong, Axel S J Hsu, Frank Y F Lam, David Y K But, S Y Wong, Wai K Leung

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Original article: Risk of new or recurrent cancer under immunosuppressive therapy in patients with IBD and previous cancer (25 October, 2013)

  Laurent Beaugerie, Fabrice Carrat, Jean-Frédéric Colombel, Anne-Marie Bouvier, Harry Sokol, Abdenour Babouri, Franck Carbonnel, David Laharie, Jean-Luc Faucheron, Tabassome Simon, Aimery de Gramont, Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet
• Original article: Treatment of bone loss in osteopenic patients with Crohn's disease: a double-blind, randomised trial of oral risedronate 35 mg once weekly or placebo, concomitant with calcium and vitamin D supplementation (21 October, 2013)

  Ad A van Bodegraven, Nathalie Bravenboer, Birgit I Witte, Gerard Dijkstra, C Janneke van der Woude, Pieter C M Stokkers, Maurice G Russel, Bas Oldenburg, Marieke Pierik, Jan C Roos, Ruud A van Hogezand, Vincent K Dik, Angela E Oostlander, J Coen Netelenbos, Lex van de Langerijt, Daniel W Hommes, Paul Lips

Gut immunity

• Original article: β7 integrins are required to give rise to intestinal mononuclear phagocytes with tolerogenic potential (12 September, 2013)

  Eduardo J Villablanca, Jaime De Calisto, Patricia Torregrosa Paredes, Barbara Cassani, Deanna D Nguyen, Susanne Gabrielsson, J Rodrigo Mora

Neurogastroenterology

• Original article: Interaction between preprandial and postprandial rectal sensory and motor abnormalities in IBS (18 October, 2013)

  Hans Törnblom, Lukas Van Oudenhove, Jan Tack, Magnus Simrén

Colon

• Original article: Source of dietary fibre and diverticular disease incidence: a prospective study of UK women (2 January, 2014)

  Francesca L Crowe, Angela Balkwill, Benjamin J Cairns, Paul N Appleby, Jane Green, Gillian K Reeves, Timothy J Key, Valerie Beral
• Original article: Gene expression profiling-derived immunohistochemistry signature with high prognostic value in colorectal carcinoma (30 October, 2013)

  Wenjun Chang, Xianhua Gao, Yifang Han, Yan Du, Qizhi Liu, Lei Wang, Xiaojie Tan, Qi Zhang, Yan Liu, Yan Zhu, Yongwei Yu, Xinjuan Fan, Hongwei Zhang, Weiping Zhou, Jianping Wang, Chuangang Fu, Guangwen Cao

Pancreas

• Original article: Effect of magnesium supplementation and depletion on the onset and course of acute experimental pancreatitis (25 November, 2013)

  Verena Schick, Jonas A Scheiber, Frank C Mooren, Stefan Turi, Güralp O Ceyhan, Jürgen Schnekenburger, Matthias Sendler, Theresa Schwaiger, Armin Omercevic, Cindy van den Brandt, Gabriele Fluhr, Wolfram Domschke, Burkhard Krüger, Julia Mayerle, Markus M Lerch
• Original article: Targeting mTOR dependency in pancreatic cancer (9 April, 2014)

  Douglas C Morran, Jianmin Wu, Nigel B Jamieson, Agata Mrowinska, Gabriela Kalna, Saadia A Karim, Amy Y M Au, Christopher J Scarlett, David K Chang, Malgorzata Z Pajak, Australian Pancreatic Cancer Genome Initiative (APGI), Karin A Oien, Colin J McKay, C Ross Carter, Gerry Gillen, Sue Champion, Sally L Pimlott, Kurt I Anderson, T R Jeffry Evans, Sean M Grimmond, Andrew V Biankin, Owen J Sansom, Jennifer P Morton

Hepatology

• Original article: In vitro infection of primary human hepatocytes by HCV-positive sera: insights on a highly relevant model (23 October, 2013)

  Claire Gondeau, Philippe Briolotti, Francia Razafy, Cédric Duret, Pierre-Alain Rubbo, François Helle, Thierry Rème, Marie-Pierre Ripault, Jacques Ducos, Jean-Michel Fabre, Jeanne Ramos, Eve-Isabelle Pécheur, Dominique Larrey, Patrick Maurel, Martine Daujat-Chavanieu
• Original article: p21 promotes sustained liver regeneration and hepatocarcinogenesis in chronic cholestatic liver injury (3 October, 2013)

  Silke Marhenke, Laura Elisa Buitrago-Molina, Jessica Endig, Johanna Orlik, Nora Schweitzer, Stephanie Klett, Thomas Longerich, Robert Geffers, Aránzazu Sánchez Muñoz, Craig Dorrell, Sarah-Fee Katz, André Lechel, Honglei Weng, Till Krech, Ulrich Lehmann, Steven Dooley, Karl Lenhard Rudolph, Michael P Manns, Arndt Vogel