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Research Article

• Why is epidermal growth factor present in the gut lumen? (1 March, 1996)

  R J Playford, N A Wright
• Age related changes in gut physiology and nutritional status. (1 March, 1996)

  L B Lovat
• Effects of cisapride on gastric emptying of oil and aqueous meal components, hunger, and fullness. (1 March, 1996)

  K L Jones, M Horowitz, B I Carney, W M Sun, B E Chatterton
• Risk assessment after acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage. (1 March, 1996)

  T A Rockall, R F Logan, H B Devlin, T C Northfield
• Reversal of osteopenia with diet in adult coeliac disease. (1 March, 1996)

  T Valdimarsson, O Löfman, G Toss, M Ström
• Local entrapment of interferon gamma in the recovery from Shigella dysenteriae type 1 infection. (1 March, 1996)

  R Raqib, A Ljungdahl, A A Lindberg, U Andersson, J Andersson
• Effect of Clostridium difficile toxin A on human intestinal epithelial cells: induction of interleukin 8 production and apoptosis after cell detachment. (1 March, 1996)

  Y R Mahida, S Makh, S Hyde, T Gray, S P Borriello
• In vivo IgA coating of anaerobic bacteria in human faeces. (1 March, 1996)

  L A van der Waaij, P C Limburg, G Mesander, D van der Waaij
• Platelet activating factor: release from colonic mucosa in patients with ulcerative colitis and its effect on colonic secretion. (1 March, 1996)

  T D Wardle, L Hall, L A Turnberg
• Smoking may prevent pouchitis in patients with restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis. (1 March, 1996)

  M N Merrett, N Mortensen, M Kettlewell, D O Jewell
• Mucosal antibodies in inflammatory bowel disease are directed against intestinal bacteria. (1 March, 1996)

  A Macpherson, U Y Khoo, I Forgacs, J Philpott-Howard, I Bjarnason
• Seasonal variations in the onset of ulcerative colitis. (1 March, 1996)

  B Moum, E Aadland, A Ekbom, M H Vatn
• High frequency of helicobacter negative gastritis in patients with Crohn's disease. (1 March, 1996)

  L Halme, P Kärkkäinen, H Rautelin, T U Kosunen, P Sipponen
• Importance of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies in primary sclerosing cholangitis and ulcerative colitis: prevalence, titre, and IgG subclass. (1 March, 1996)

  D S Bansi, K A Fleming, R W Chapman
• Characterisation of inorganic microparticles in pigment cells of human gut associated lymphoid tissue. (1 March, 1996)

  J J Powell, C C Ainley, R S Harvey, I M Mason, M D Kendall, E A Sankey, A P Dhillon, R P Thompson
• Effect of longterm placebo controlled calcium supplementation on sigmoidal cell proliferation in patients with sporadic adenomatous polyps. (1 March, 1996)

  U M Weisgerber, H Boeing, R W Owen, R Waldherr, R Raedsch, J Wahrendorf
• p53 tumour suppressor gene expression in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour cells. (1 March, 1996)

  C Bartz, C Ziske, B Wiedenmann, K Moelling
• Folate status of gastrointestinal epithelial cells is not predicted by serum and red cell folate values in replete subjects. (1 March, 1996)

  J Meenan, E O'Hallinan, S Lynch, A Molloy, J McPartlan, J Scott, D G Weir
• Induction of NGAL synthesis in epithelial cells of human colorectal neoplasia and inflammatory bowel diseases. (1 March, 1996)

  B S Nielsen, N Borregaard, J R Bundgaard, S Timshel, M Sehested, L Kjeldsen
• Family based colorectal cancer screening in a district hospital. (1 March, 1996)

  N P Cripps, R J Heald
• K-ras gene mutation in gall bladder carcinomas and dysplasia. (1 March, 1996)

  T Ajiki, T Fujimori, H Onoyama, M Yamamoto, S Kitazawa, S Maeda, Y Saitoh
• Somatostatin analogue octreotide and inhibition of tumour growth in metastatic endocrine gastroenteropancreatic tumours. (1 March, 1996)

  R Arnold, M E Trautmann, W Creutzfeldt, R Benning, M Benning, C Neuhaus, R Jürgensen, K Stein, H Schäfer, C Bruns, H J Dennler
• Metabolism of orally administered tauroursodeoxycholic acid in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis. (1 March, 1996)

  K D Setchell, C M Rodrigues, M Podda, A Crosignani
• Increased concentrations of tumour necrosis factor (TNF) and soluble TNF receptors in biliary obstruction in mice; soluble TNF receptors as prognostic factors for mortality. (1 March, 1996)

  M H Bemelmans, J W Greve, D J Gouma, W A Buurman
• Acute liver damage and ecstasy ingestion. (1 March, 1996)

  A J Ellis, J A Wendon, B Portmann, R Williams
• A national training programme for gastroenterology and hepatology. (1 March, 1996)

  M J Farthing, R P Walt, R N Allan, C H Swan, I T Gilmore, C N Mallinson, J R Bennett, C J Hawkey, W R Burnham, A I Morris, C J Tibbs, T E Bowling, C Cobb, S Catnach, C Farrell, A Towle
• The quiet pleasure of browsing through vital statistics. (1 March, 1996)

  M J Langman