Subscribe
Log In More

Log in via Institution
Log in via OpenAthens
Log in via BSG

Log in using your username and password
For personal accounts OR managers of institutional accounts

Username *

Password *

Forgot your log in details?Register a new account?
Forgot your user name or password?
Basket
Search More

Search for this keyword

Advanced search

Close More
Main menu

CME/CPD

Latest content

Current issue

Archive

Authors

About
Subscribe
Log in More

Log in via Institution
Log in via OpenAthens
Log in via BSG

Log in using your username and password
For personal accounts OR managers of institutional accounts

Username *

Password *

Forgot your log in details?Register a new account?
Forgot your user name or password?
BMJ Journals

Table of contents

November 1997 - Volume 41 - 5

LEADING ARTICLE

The importance of the E-cadherin-catenin complex in the maintenance of intestinal epithelial homoeostasis: more than intercellular glue? (1 November, 1997)
AIDA JAWHARI, MICHAEL FARTHING, MASSIMO PIGNATELLI

Oesophagus

Intestinal metaplasia at the squamocolumnar junction in patients attending for diagnostic gastroscopy (1 November, 1997)
N J Trudgill, S K Suvarna, K C Kapur, S A Riley
Stimulus and site specific induction of hiccups in the oesophagus of normal subjects (1 November, 1997)
R Fass, L Higa, A Kodner, E A Mayer
Associations between different forms of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (1 November, 1997)
H B El-Serag, A Sonnenberg
Oesophageal motor responses to gastro-oesophageal reflux in healthy controls and reflux patients (1 November, 1997)
A Anggiansah, G Taylor, R E K Marshall, N F Bright, W A Owen, W J Owen

Stomach and duodenum

Influencing the practice and outcome in acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage (1 November, 1997)
T A Rockall, R F A Logan, H B Devlin, T C Northfield
Specific adaptation of gastric emptying to diets with differing protein content in the rat: is endogenous cholecystokinin implicated? (1 November, 1997)
G Shi, V Leray, C Scarpignato, N Bentouimou, S Bruley des Varannes, C Cherbut, J-P Galmiche
Antigastric autoantibodies in Helicobacter pyloriinfection: implications of histological and clinical parameters of gastritis
(1 November, 1997)
G Faller, H Steininger, J Kränzlein, H Maul, T Kerkau, J Hensen, E G Hahn, T Kirchner
Abnormal postprandial duodenal chyme transport in patients with long standing insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (1 November, 1997)
H N Nguyen, J Silny, S Wüller, H-U Marschall, G Rau, S Matern

Small bowel

Improved clinical tolerance to chronic lactose ingestion in subjects with lactose intolerance: a placebo effect? (1 November, 1997)
F Briet, P Pochart, P Marteau, B Flourie, E Arrigoni, J C Rambaud
Enhanced mucosal permeability and nitric oxide synthase activity in jejunum of mast cell deficient mice (1 November, 1997)
S Komatsu, M B Grisham, J M Russell, D N Granger
Antisecretory factor suppresses intestinal inflammation and hypersecretion (1 November, 1997)
E Johansson, E Jennische, S Lange, I Lönnroth

Inflammatory

Search for Mycobacterium paratuberculosis DNA in orofacial granulomatosis and oral Crohn’s disease tissue by polymerase chain reaction
(1 November, 1997)
M P Riggio, J Gibson, A Lennon, D Wray, D G MacDonald
Imbalance of the interleukin 1 system in colonic mucosa—association with intestinal inflammation and interleukin 1 receptor agonist genotype 2 (1 November, 1997)
T Andus, R Daig, D Vogl, E Aschenbrenner, G Lock, S Hollerbach, M Köllinger, J Schölmerich, V Gross

Colon

The distal colon provides reserve storage capacity during colonic fluid overload (1 November, 1997)
J Hammer, M Pruckmayer, H Bergmann, K Kletter, A Gangl

Functional and motility disorders

Efficacy and safety of the peripheral kappa agonist fedotozine versus placebo in the treatment of functional dyspepsia (1 November, 1997)
N W Read, J L Abitbol, K D Bardhan, P J Whorwell, B Fraitag
Do patients with irritable bowel syndrome in primary care really differ from outpatients with irritable bowel syndrome? (1 November, 1997)
H E van der Horst, A M van Dulmen, F G Schellevis, J Th M van Eijk, J F M Fennis, G Bleijenberg
Clinical characteristics of chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction in adults (1 November, 1997)
S D Mann, H S Debinski, M A Kamm

Biliary tract and pancreas

Increased incidence of biliary sludge and normal gall bladder contractility in patients with high spinal cord injury (1 November, 1997)
R K Tandon, R K Jain, P K Garg
Sclerosing cholangitis, race and sex (1 November, 1997)
P Kelly, S Patchett, D McCloskey, E Alstead, M Farthing, P Fairclough
Increased serum trypsinogen 2 and trypsin 2-α₁antitrypsin complex values identify endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography induced pancreatitis with high accuracy
(1 November, 1997)
E Kemppainen, J Hedström, P Puolakkainen, J Halttunen, V Sainio, R Haapiainen, E Kivilaakso, U-H Stenman

Liver

Hepatitis G virus infection in fulminant hepatic failure (1 November, 1997)
J C Sáiz, M Sans, A Mas, E Olmedo, X Forns, F X López-Labrador, J C Restrepo, J Costa, J M Salmerón, M Guilera, S Ampurdanés, J M Sánchez-Tapias, M T Jiménez de Anta, J Rodés
The effect of plasma low density lipoprotein apheresis on the hepatic secretion of biliary lipids in humans (1 November, 1997)
C G Hillebrant, B Nyberg, K Einarsson, M Eriksson

CASE REPORT

Pancreatitis induced by codeine: a case report with positive rechallenge (1 November, 1997)
P Hastier, F Longo, M Buckley, R M Chichmanian, J P Delmont

SCIENCE ALERT

Peyer’s patch organogenesis—cytokines rule, OK? (1 November, 1997)
GRAHAM MAYRHOFER

COMMENTARY

The columnar lined oesophagus: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma (1 November, 1997)
STUART JON SPECHLER
Why do we hiccup? (1 November, 1997)
PETER J KAHRILAS, GUOXIANG SHI
The duodenum: a conduit or a pump? (1 November, 1997)
MICHAEL CAMILLERI
Assessing food intolerance: don’t lose control (1 November, 1997)
FABRIZIS SUAREZ, MICHAEL LEVITT
Visceral analgesics and functional dyspepsia: have we found the Holy Grail? (1 November, 1997)
NICHOLAS J TALLEY
Treating diarrhoea: what might the pituitary offer? (1 November, 1997)
OVE LUNDGREN
Homing-in on the origin of biliary steroids (1 November, 1997)
MARTIN C CAREY

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Helisal saliva assay (1 November, 1997)
F LUZZA, F PALLONE
Defining treatment resistance in the irritable bowel syndrome (1 November, 1997)
MANI RAJAGOPALAN
Is gastric surfactant related to lung surfactant? (1 November, 1997)
W BERNHARD, A D POSTLE
Oesophageal cancer in patients with Barrett’s oesophagus (1 November, 1997)
J C HOEFFEL
Are Down syndrome and coeliac disease associated? (1 November, 1997)
M-A MORRIS, F BIAGI, H J ELLIS, P BRETT, P J CICLITIRA

BOOK REVIEW

Helicobacter pylori (1 November, 1997)
S MOSS
Baillière’s Clinical Gastroenterology (1 November, 1997)
P N MATON