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Research Article

• Recent advances in the molecular biology of hepatitis B virus: mutant virus and the host response. (1 January, 1993)

  G R Foster, H C Thomas
• Ischaemic colitis: two distinct patterns of severity. (1 January, 1993)

  J H Robert, G Mentha, A Rohner
• Complications and limitations of injection sclerotherapy in portal hypertension. (1 January, 1993)

  N D Heaton, E R Howard
• Role of intragastric and intraoesophageal alkalinisation in the genesis of complications in Barrett's columnar lined lower oesophagus. (1 January, 1993)

  S E Attwood, C S Ball, A P Barlow, L Jenkinson, T L Norris, A Watson
• Lower oesophageal sphincter hypersensitivity to opioid receptor stimulation in patients with idiopathic achalasia. (1 January, 1993)

  R Penagini, B Bartesaghi, P Zannini, G Negri, P A Bianchi
• Location of the lower oesophageal sphincter and the squamous columnar mucosal junction in 109 healthy controls and 778 patients with different degrees of endoscopic oesophagitis. (1 January, 1993)

  A Csendes, F Maluenda, I Braghetto, P Csendes, A Henriquez, M S Quesada
• Gastroscopic follow up of pernicious anaemia patients. (1 January, 1993)

  S M Sjöblom, P Sipponen, H Järvinen
• Cholecystokinin octapeptide stimulates phasic and tonic pyloric motility in healthy humans. (1 January, 1993)

  R Fraser, D Fone, M Horowitz, J Dent
• Impaired IgA response to Giardia heat shock antigen in children with persistent diarrhoea and giardiasis. (1 January, 1993)

  S Char, A M Cevallos, P Yamson, P B Sullivan, G Neale, M J Farthing
• Role of interleukin-6 in mediating the acute phase protein response and potential as an early means of severity assessment in acute pancreatitis. (1 January, 1993)

  D I Heath, A Cruickshank, M Gudgeon, A Jehanli, A Shenkin, C W Imrie
• Serum antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies in inflammatory bowel disease are mainly associated with ulcerative colitis. A correlation study between perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies and clinical parameters, medical, and surgical treatment. (1 January, 1993)

  M Oudkerk Pool, P M Ellerbroek, B U Ridwan, R Goldschmeding, B M von Blomberg, A S Peña, K M Dolman, H Bril, W Dekker, J J Nauta
• Adsorbents as antiendotoxin agents in experimental colitis. (1 January, 1993)

  K R Gardiner, N H Anderson, M D McCaigue, P J Erwin, M I Halliday, B J Rowlands
• Anti-lactoferrin antibodies and other types of ANCA in ulcerative colitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and Crohn's disease. (1 January, 1993)

  E Peen, S Almer, G Bodemar, B O Rydén, C Sjölin, K Tejle, T Skogh
• Adhesive and hydrophobic properties of Escherichia coli from the rectal mucosa of patients with ulcerative colitis. (1 January, 1993)

  M G Hartley, M J Hudson, E T Swarbrick, A E Gent, M D Hellier, R H Grace
• Quantification of disease activity in Crohn's disease by computer analysis of Tc-99m hexamethyl propylene amine oxime (HMPAO) labelled leucocyte images. (1 January, 1993)

  M H Giaffer, W B Tindale, S Senior, D C Barber, C D Holdsworth
• Factor XIIIA subunit and Crohn's disease. (1 January, 1993)

  M Hudson, A J Wakefield, R A Hutton, E A Sankey, A P Dhillon, L More, R Sim, R E Pounder
• Plasminogen activators in normal tissue and carcinomas of the human oesophagus and stomach. (1 January, 1993)

  C F Sier, H W Verspaget, G Griffioen, S Ganesh, H J Vloedgraven, C B Lamers
• Electron microscopic study of intercellular junctions in human gastric mucosa with special reference to their relationship to gastric ulcer. (1 January, 1993)

  T Ohkusa, M Yamamoto, K Kataoka, T Kyoi, F Ueda, H Fujimoto, M Sasabe, Y Tamura, H Hosoi, S Tokoi
• Identification of progastrin derived peptides in colorectal carcinoma extracts. (1 January, 1993)

  J Nemeth, B Taylor, S Pauwels, A Varro, G J Dockray
• Feasibility of family based screening for colorectal neoplasia: experience in one general surgical practice. (1 January, 1993)

  B M Stephenson, V A Murday, P J Finan, P Quirke, M F Dixon, D T Bishop
• Distribution of mucosal pathology and an assessment of colonic phenotypic change in the pelvic ileal reservoir. (1 January, 1993)

  N A Shepherd, C J Healey, B F Warren, P I Richman, W H Thomson, S P Wilkinson
• Microvascular abnormalities in the mucosal prolapse syndrome. (1 January, 1993)

  R N Lonsdale
• Effect of phospholipids and their molecular species on cholesterol solubility and nucleation in human and model biles. (1 January, 1993)

  Z Halpern, M Moshkowitz, H Laufer, Y Peled, T Gilat
• Natural history of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis: a study of 20 cases. (1 January, 1993)

  A Forbes, C Blanshard, B Gazzard
• A laparoscopic technique for full thickness intestinal biopsy and feeding jejunostomy. (1 January, 1993)

  W K Eltringham, A M Roe, S W Galloway, R A Mountford, H J Espiner
• Double blind trial of oral fluticasone propionate v prednisolone in the treatment of active ulcerative colitis. (1 January, 1993)

  A B Hawthorne, C O Record, C D Holdsworth, M H Giaffer, D A Burke, M L Keech, C J Hawkey
• Contractile activity of the human colon: lessons from 24 hour studies. (1 January, 1993)

  G Bassotti, M D Crowell, W E Whitehead
• Perforation from endoscopic small bowel biopsy. (1 January, 1993)

  B Scott, G Holmes
• Familial primary gastric lymphoma. (1 January, 1993)

  D Hayoz, M Extermann, B F Odermatt, P Pugin, C Regamey, H Knecht