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Research Article

• Cigarette smoking and intestinal defences. (1 June, 1992)

  G F Cope, R V Heatley
• Optimal number of biopsy specimens in the diagnosis of carcinoma of the oesophagus. (1 June, 1992)

  N Lal, D K Bhasin, A K Malik, N M Gupta, K Singh, S K Mehta
• Oesophageal propulsive force and its relation to manometric pressure. (1 June, 1992)

  C O Russell, N Bright, G Buthpitiya, L Alexander, C Walton, G Whelan
• Assessment of proliferation of squamous, Barrett's and gastric mucosa in patients with columnar lined Barrett's oesophagus. (1 June, 1992)

  S Y Iftikhar, R J Steele, S Watson, P D James, K Dilks, J D Hardcastle
• Chemotactic activity of Helicobacter pylori sonicate for human polymorphonuclear leucocytes and monocytes. (1 June, 1992)

  H Nielsen, L P Andersen
• Chronic upper abdominal pain: site and radiation in various structural and functional disorders and the effect of various foods. (1 June, 1992)

  J Y Kang, H H Tay, R Guan
• Near infrared reflectance measurement of nitrogen faecal losses. (1 June, 1992)

  L Benini, S Caliari, F Bonfante, G C Guidi, M T Brentegani, G Castellani, C Sembenini, E Bardelli, I Vantini
• Effects of acetorphan, an enkephalinase inhibitor, on experimental and acute diarrhoea. (1 June, 1992)

  P Baumer, E Danquechin Dorval, J Bertrand, J M Vetel, J C Schwartz, J M Lecomte
• Oral salt supplements to compensate for jejunostomy losses: comparison of sodium chloride capsules, glucose electrolyte solution, and glucose polymer electrolyte solution. (1 June, 1992)

  J M Nightingale, J E Lennard-Jones, E R Walker, M J Farthing
• Determination of a critical level of tissue oxygenation in acute intestinal ischaemia. (1 June, 1992)

  W G Sheridan, R H Lowndes, G T Williams, H L Young
• Occurrence of large granular lymphocytes and natural killer cells in the epithelium of the gut distinguishes two different coeliac diseases. (1 June, 1992)

  F Hadziselimovic, L R Emmons, U Schaub, E Signer, A Bürgin-Wolff, R Krstic
• Peripheral blood monocyte cytokine production and acute phase response in inflammatory bowel disease. (1 June, 1992)

  M Z Mazlam, H J Hodgson
• Smoking in Crohn's disease: effect on localisation and clinical course. (1 June, 1992)

  E Lindberg, G Järnerot, B Huitfeldt
• Evolution of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer. (1 June, 1992)

  J R Jass, S M Stewart
• Families at risk of colorectal cancer: who are they? (1 June, 1992)

  F Kee, B J Collins
• Effect of electrohydraulic and extracorporeal shock waves on gastrointestinal cancer cells and their response to cytotoxic agents. (1 June, 1992)

  A Warlters, D L Morris, A Cameron-Strange, W Lynch
• Vitamin A deficiency and colonic electrogenic absorption and secretion in the rat. (1 June, 1992)

  H C Nzegwu, R J Levin
• Mucosal immune defence mechanisms in enterocolitis complicating Hirschsprung's disease. (1 June, 1992)

  A Imamura, P Puri, D S O'Briain, D J Reen
• Utility of a combined test of anorectal manometry, electromyography, and sensation in determining the mechanism of 'idiopathic' faecal incontinence. (1 June, 1992)

  W M Sun, T C Donnelly, N W Read
• Relation between hysterectomy and the irritable bowel: a prospective study. (1 June, 1992)

  A Prior, K M Stanley, A R Smith, N W Read
• Defecation frequency and timing, and stool form in the general population: a prospective study. (1 June, 1992)

  K W Heaton, J Radvan, H Cripps, R A Mountford, F E Braddon, A O Hughes
• Effects of stressful life events on bowel symptoms: subjects with irritable bowel syndrome compared with subjects without bowel dysfunction. (1 June, 1992)

  W E Whitehead, M D Crowell, J C Robinson, B R Heller, M M Schuster
• Effect of in vivo administration of an antibody to epidermal growth factor on the rapid increase in DNA synthesis induced by partial hepatectomy in the rat. (1 June, 1992)

  D A Vesey, A C Selden, A C Woodman, H J Hodgson
• Aminopyrine breath test in the prognostic evaluation of patients with cirrhosis. (1 June, 1992)

  C Merkel, M Bolognesi, S Bellon, S Bianco, B Honisch, H Lampe, P Angeli, A Gatta
• Pancreatic surgery, not pancreatitis, is the primary cause of diabetes after acute fulminant pancreatitis. (1 June, 1992)

  J Eriksson, M Doepel, E Widén, L Halme, A Ekstrand, L Groop, K Höckerstedt
• Glycine nitrogen in total parenteral nutrition: two prospective clinical trials comparing the efficacy of high and low glycine containing amino acid solutions. (1 June, 1992)

  R G Rees, J J Payne James, G K Grimble, D Halliday, P G Frost, D B Silk
• Sustained hypothyroidism induced by recombinant alpha interferon in patients with chronic hepatitis C. (1 June, 1992)

  P Marcellin, M Pouteau, P Renard, J M Grynblat, N Colas Linhart, P Bardet, B Bok, J P Benhamou
• Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura mimicking acute small bowel Crohn's disease. (1 June, 1992)

  P J Winwood, J P Iredale, P J Williamson, M Lesna, C A Loehry
• Oesophageal candidiasis after omeprazole therapy. (1 June, 1992)

  A J Larner, R Lendrum