Table of contents

Original articles

Oesophagus

• Original article: Visceral abdominal obesity measured by CT scan is associated with an increased risk of Barrett's oesophagus: a case-control study (13 February, 2013)

  Hashem B El-Serag, Ali Hashmi, Jose Garcia, Peter Richardson, Abeer Alsarraj, Stephanie Fitzgerald, Marcelo Vela, Yasser Shaib, Neena S Abraham, Maria Velez, Rhonda Cole, Margot B Rodriguez, Bhupinderjit Anand, David Y Graham, Jennifer R Kramer
• Original article: Protective role of gluteofemoral obesity in erosive oesophagitis and Barrett's oesophagus (5 March, 2013)

  Joel H Rubenstein, Hal Morgenstern, William D Chey, Joseph Murray, James M Scheiman, Philip Schoenfeld, Henry D Appelman, Laurence McMahon, Val Metko, Joan Kellenberg, Tal Kalish, Jason Baker, John M Inadomi

Stomach

• Original article: Improved survival of gastric cancer with tumour Epstein–Barr virus positivity: an international pooled analysis (11 April, 2013)

  M Constanza Camargo, Woo-Ho Kim, Anna Maria Chiaravalli, Kyoung-Mee Kim, Alejandro H Corvalan, Keitaro Matsuo, Jun Yu, Joseph J Y Sung, Roberto Herrera-Goepfert, Fernando Meneses-Gonzalez, Yuko Kijima, Shoji Natsugoe, Linda M Liao, Jolanta Lissowska, Sung Kim, Nan Hu, Carlos A Gonzalez, Yashushi Yatabe, Chihaya Koriyama, Stephen M Hewitt, Suminori Akiba, Margaret L Gulley, Philip R Taylor, Charles S Rabkin

Helicobacter pylori

• Original article:

  Randomised clinical trial comparing sequential and concomitant therapies for Helicobacter pylori eradication in routine clinical practice

  (11 May, 2013)

  Adrian G McNicholl, Alicia C Marin, Javier Molina-Infante, Manuel Castro, Jesús Barrio, Julio Ducons, Xavier Calvet, Cristobal de la Coba, Miguel Montoro, Felipe Bory, Angeles Perez-Aisa, Montserrat Forné, Javier P Gisbert, On behalf of the participant centres

Endoscopy

• Original article: Variation in gastroscopy rate in English general practice and outcome for oesophagogastric cancer: retrospective analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics (20 February, 2013)

  Mustafa Shawihdi, Elizabeth Thompson, Neil Kapoor, Geraint Powell, Richard P Sturgess, Nick Stern, Michael Roughton, Michael G Pearson, Keith Bodger

Neurogastroenterology

• Original article: Impaired duodenal mucosal integrity and low-grade inflammation in functional dyspepsia (8 March, 2013)

  Hanne Vanheel, Maria Vicario, Tim Vanuytsel, Lukas Van Oudenhove, Cristina Martinez, Åsa V Keita, Nicolas Pardon, Javier Santos, Johan D Söderholm, Jan Tack, Ricard Farré

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Original article: Genetic susceptibility to increased bacterial translocation influences the response to biological therapy in patients with Crohn's disease (1 February, 2013)

  Ana Gutiérrez, Michael Scharl, Laura Sempere, Ernst Holler, Pedro Zapater, Isabel Almenta, José M González-Navajas, José Such, Reiner Wiest, Gerhard Rogler, Rubén Francés
• Original article: Bacteria penetrate the normally impenetrable inner colon mucus layer in both murine colitis models and patients with ulcerative colitis (20 February, 2013)

  Malin E V Johansson, Jenny K Gustafsson, Jessica Holmén-Larsson, Karolina S Jabbar, Lijun Xia, Hua Xu, Fayez K Ghishan, Frederic A Carvalho, Andrew T Gewirtz, Henrik Sjövall, Gunnar C Hansson
• Original article: Adalimumab combined with ciprofloxacin is superior to adalimumab monotherapy in perianal fistula closure in Crohn's disease: a randomised, double-blind, placebo controlled trial (ADAFI) (23 March, 2013)

  Pieter Dewint, Bettina E Hansen, Elke Verhey, Bas Oldenburg, Daniel W Hommes, Marieke Pierik, Cyriel I J Ponsioen, Hendrik M van Dullemen, Maurice Russel, Ad A van Bodegraven, C Janneke van der Woude

Necrotising enterocolitis

• Original article: Amniotic fluid stem cells improve survival and enhance repair of damaged intestine in necrotising enterocolitis via a COX-2 dependent mechanism (24 March, 2013) Free

  Augusto Zani, Mara Cananzi, Francesco Fascetti-Leon, Giuseppe Lauriti, Virpi V Smith, Sveva Bollini, Marco Ghionzoli, Antonello D'Arrigo, Michela Pozzobon, Martina Piccoli, Amy Hicks, Jack Wells, Bernard Siow, Neil J Sebire, Colin Bishop, Alberta Leon, Anthony Atala, Mark F Lythgoe, Agostino Pierro, Simon Eaton, Paolo De Coppi

Colon

• Original article: Oestrogens promote tumorigenesis in a mouse model for colitis-associated cancer (13 February, 2013)

  Jarom Heijmans, Mattheus C B Wielenga, Sanne Liesbeth Rosekrans, Jooske F van Lidth de Jeude, Joris Roelofs, Patrick Groothuis, Antwan Ederveen, Eveline S M de Jonge-Muller, Izak Biemond, James C H Hardwick, Geert D'Haens, Daniel W Hommes, Vanesa Muncan, Gijs R van den Brink
• Original article:

  Prospective evaluation of methylated SEPT9 in plasma for detection of asymptomatic colorectal cancer

  (13 February, 2013)

  Timothy Robert Church, Michael Wandell, Catherine Lofton-Day, Steven J Mongin, Matthias Burger, Shannon R Payne, Esmeralda Castaños-Vélez, Brent A Blumenstein, Thomas Rösch, Neal Osborn, Dale Snover, Robert W Day, David F Ransohoff, for the PRESEPT Clinical Study Steering Committee, Investigators and Study Team
• Original article: Genetic variants associated with colorectal cancer risk: comprehensive research synopsis, meta-analysis, and epidemiological evidence (14 August, 2013)

  Xiangyu Ma, Ben Zhang, Wei Zheng

Pancreas

• Original article:

  Functional effects of 13 rare PRSS1 variants presumed to cause chronic pancreatitis

  (1 March, 2013)

  Andrea Schnúr, Sebastian Beer, Heiko Witt, Péter Hegyi, Miklós Sahin-Tóth

Hepatology

• Original article: Molecular interplay between Δ5/Δ6 desaturases and long-chain fatty acids in the pathogenesis of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (14 March, 2013)

  Cristina López-Vicario, Ana González-Périz, Bibiana Rius, Eva Morán-Salvador, Verónica García-Alonso, Juan José Lozano, Ramón Bataller, Montserrat Cofán, Jing X Kang, Vicente Arroyo, Joan Clària, Esther Titos
• Original article: Cholangitis and subsequent gastrointestinal cancer risk: a Danish population-based cohort study (26 June, 2013)

  Kirstine Kobberøe Søgaard, Rune Erichsen, Jennifer Leigh Lund, Dóra Körmendiné Farkas, Henrik Toft Sørensen