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Research Article

• Regulation of intestinal non-haem iron absorption. (1 April, 1997)

  M Lombard, E Chua, P O'Toole
• Autoimmune cholangitis. (1 April, 1997)

  J Heathcote
• Tumour necrosis factor and Crohn's disease. (1 April, 1997)

  S J Van Deventer
• Effect of intraduodenal fat on lower oesophageal sphincter function and gastro-oesophageal reflux. (1 April, 1997)

  R H Holloway, E Lyrenas, A Ireland, J Dent
• Comparison of serum, salivary, and rapid whole blood diagnostic tests for Helicobacter pylori and their validation against endoscopy based tests. (1 April, 1997)

  T G Reilly, V Poxon, D S Sanders, T S Elliott, R P Walt
• A citric acid solution is an optimal test drink in the 13C-urea breath test for the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection. (1 April, 1997)

  J E Domínguez-Muñoz, A Leodolter, T Sauerbruch, P Malfertheiner
• Mucosal expression and luminal release of epidermal and transforming growth factors in patients with duodenal ulcer before and after eradication of Helicobacter pylori. (1 April, 1997)

  P C Konturek, H Ernst, S J Konturek, A J Bobrzyński, G Faller, C Klingler, E G Hahn
• Treatment with tumour necrosis factor inhibitor oxpentifylline does not improve corticosteroid dependent chronic active Crohn's disease. (1 April, 1997)

  J Bauditz, J Haemling, M Ortner, H Lochs, A Raedler, S Schreiber
• In vitro effects of oxpentifylline on inflammatory cytokine release in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. (1 April, 1997)

  J M Reimund, S Dumont, C D Muller, J S Kenney, M Kedinger, R Baumann, P Poindron, B Duclos
• Pancreatic autoantibodies in Crohn's disease: a family study. (1 April, 1997)

  F Seibold, H Mörk, S Tanza, A Müller, C Holzhüter, P Weber, M Scheurlen
• Short chain fatty acid rectal irrigation for left-sided ulcerative colitis: a randomised, placebo controlled trial. (1 April, 1997)

  R I Breuer, K H Soergel, B A Lashner, M L Christ, S B Hanauer, A Vanagunas, J M Harig, A Keshavarzian, M Robinson, J H Sellin, D Weinberg, D E Vidican, K L Flemal, A W Rademaker
• Down's syndrome is strongly associated with coeliac disease. (1 April, 1997)

  L Gale, H Wimalaratna, A Brotodiharjo, J M Duggan
• Increasing the intestinal resistance of rats to the invasive pathogen Salmonella enteritidis: additive effects of dietary lactulose and calcium. (1 April, 1997)

  I M Bovee-Oudenhoven, D S Termont, P J Heidt, R Van der Meer
• Effect of shigella enterotoxin 1 (ShET1) on rabbit intestine in vitro and in vivo. (1 April, 1997)

  A Fasano, F R Noriega, F M Liao, W Wang, M M Levine
• Micrometastases: marker of metastatic potential or evidence of residual disease? (1 April, 1997)

  G C O'Sullivan, J K Collins, J Kelly, J Morgan, M Madden, F Shanahan
• Differential expression of oestrogen receptor and oestrogen inducible genes in gastric mucosa and cancer. (1 April, 1997)

  S Singh, R Poulsom, N A Wright, M C Sheppard, M J Langman
• APC gene mutations and extraintestinal phenotype of familial adenomatous polyposis. (1 April, 1997)

  F M Giardiello, G M Petersen, S Piantadosi, S B Gruber, E I Traboulsi, G J Offerhaus, K Muro, A J Krush, S V Booker, M C Luce, S J Laken, K W Kinzler, B Vogelstein, S R Hamilton
• Influence of changes in pancreatic tissue morphology and capillary blood flow on antibiotic tissue concentrations in the pancreas during the progression of acute pancreatitis. (1 April, 1997)

  T Foitzik, H G Hotz, M Kinzig, F Sörgel, H J Buhr
• Combined treatment with C1 esterase inhibitor and antithrombin III improves survival in severe acute experimental pancreatitis. (1 April, 1997)

  H Yamaguchi, H Weidenbach, H Lührs, M M Lerch, G Dickneite, G Adler
• Effect of chronic endogenous hypergastrinaemia on pancreatic growth and carcinogenesis in the hamster. (1 April, 1997)

  M Chu, E Kullman, J F Rehfeld, K Borch
• Topical glyceryl trinitrate relaxes the sphincter of Oddi. (1 April, 1997)

  W Luman, A Pryde, R C Heading, K R Palmer
• Acquired C3 deficiency in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis predisposes to infection and increased mortality. (1 April, 1997)

  C Homann, K Varming, K Høgåsen, T E Mollnes, N Graudal, A C Thomsen, P Garred
• Granulomatous gastritis in Wegener's disease: differentiation from Crohn's disease supported by a positive test for antineutrophil antibodies. (1 April, 1997)

  B Temmesfeld-Wollbrueck, C Heinrichs, A Szalay, W Seeger
• Video education and evidence in endoscopy. (1 April, 1997)

  A Hart, M Mayberry, J Mayberry
• Micrometastases: are they clinically significant disease? (1 April, 1997)

  H J Andreyev, D Cunningham
• Antibody 'markers' in Crohn's disease: opportunity or overstatement? (1 April, 1997)

  F Shanahan
• Oxpentifylline, tumour necrosis factor-alpha and Crohn's disease. (1 April, 1997)

  T T MacDonald
• Soluble TNF receptors as prognostic factors for mortality. (1 April, 1997)

  R W Parks, K R Gardiner, M I Halliday, B J Rowlands
• Helicobacter pylori and ulcer healing. (1 April, 1997)

  D Dowling
• Endoscopic papillectomy. (1 April, 1997)

  A D McCutcheon