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Research Article

• Aetiology of cancer of the oesophagus: geographical studies in the footsteps of Marco Polo and beyond. (1 May, 1989)

  P M Sagar
• Comparison of weight loss with short term dietary and intragastric balloon treatment. (1 May, 1989)

  D Durrans, T V Taylor
• Endoscopic and gastric acid studies in homozygous sickle cell disease and upper abdominal pain. (1 May, 1989)

  M G Lee, C H Thirumalai, S I Terry, G R Serjeant
• Comparison of gastric body and antral pH: a 24 hour ambulatory study in healthy volunteers. (1 May, 1989)

  G McLauchlan, G M Fullarton, G P Crean, K E McColl
• Abnormalities in the duodenal transit and motility in duodenal ulcer patients: studies with a new isotopic technique. (1 May, 1989)

  M G Quon, I Mena, J E Valenzuela
• Comparison of relapse rates and of mucosal abnormalities after healing of duodenal ulceration and after one year's maintenance with cimetidine or sucralfate: a light and electron microscopy study. (1 May, 1989)

  F I Tovey, E M Husband, Y C Yiu, L Baker, G McPhail, M R Lewin, A P Jayaraj, C G Clark
• Do H2 receptor antagonists have to be given at night? A study of the antisecretory profile of SKF 94482, a new H2 receptor antagonist which has a profound effect on daytime acidity. (1 May, 1989)

  S G Chiverton, D W Burget, R H Hunt
• Effects of gastrointestinal hormones on the growth of human intestinal epithelial cells in vitro. (1 May, 1989)

  C Simopoulos, J D Gaffen, A Bennett
• Bowel function and transit rate during the menstrual cycle. (1 May, 1989)

  M A Kamm, M J Farthing, J E Lennard-Jones
• Effect of ileal infusion of glycochenodeoxycholic acid on segmental transit, motility, and flow in the human jejunum and ileum. (1 May, 1989)

  R Penagini, R C Spiller, J J Misiewicz, P G Frost
• Incidence of inflammatory bowel disease in Scottish children between 1968 and 1983; marginal fall in ulcerative colitis, three-fold rise in Crohn's disease. (1 May, 1989)

  J R Barton, S Gillon, A Ferguson
• Personality profile and affective state of patients with inflammatory bowel disease. (1 May, 1989)

  D A Robertson, J Ray, I Diamond, J G Edwards
• Plasma fibronectin in Crohn's disease. (1 May, 1989)

  A Allan, J Wyke, R N Allan, P Morel, M Robinson, D L Scott, J Alexander-Williams
• Increased segmental activity and intraluminal pressures in the sigmoid colon of patients with the irritable bowel syndrome. (1 May, 1989)

  J Rogers, M M Henry, J J Misiewicz
• Fully automated computer analysis of intracolonic pressures. (1 May, 1989)

  J Rogers, J J Misiewicz
• Oral calcium suppresses increased rectal epithelial proliferation of persons at risk of colorectal cancer. (1 May, 1989)

  P Rozen, Z Fireman, N Fine, Y Wax, E Ron
• Raised plasma concentrations of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylethyleneglycol in cirrhotic patients with or without hepatic encephalopathy. (1 May, 1989)

  H Echizen, A Minegishi, S Hayashi, N Umeda, T Oda, T Ishizaki
• Effect of calcium, magnesium and sodium ions on in vitro nucleation of human gall bladder bile. (1 May, 1989)

  W D Neithercut
• Significance of prostaglandin E2 in acute necrotising pancreatitis in rats. (1 May, 1989)

  B van Ooijen, W J Kort, C J Tinga, J H Wilson, D L Westbroek
• Olsalazine or sulphasalazine in first attacks of ulcerative colitis? A double blind study. (1 May, 1989)

  S S Rao, S A Dundas, C D Holdsworth, P A Cann, K R Palmer, C L Corbett
• Tissue reactions under piezoelectric shockwave application for the fragmentation of biliary calculi. (1 May, 1989)

  C Ell, W Kerzel, N Heyder, W Rödl, H Langer, U Mischke, J Giedl, W Domschke
• Chronic colitis after Aeromonas infection. (1 May, 1989)

  J M Willoughby, A F Rahman, M M Gregory
• Intestinal infarction caused by carcinoid associated elastic vascular sclerosis: early presentation of a small ileal carcinoid tumour. (1 May, 1989)

  J N Harvey, M E Denyer, P DaCosta
• Gastroenterology services: a regional review of changes over a five year period (1981-86). (1 May, 1989)

  B Scott, M Atkinson
• 1989 spring meeting of the British Society of Gastroenterology. 12-14 April, Bradford. (1 May, 1989)