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Table of contents

December 2002 - Volume 51 - 6

Gut: 51 (6)

Electronic pages

Author index (1 December, 2002) Free
Subject index (1 December, 2002) Free

Leading article

Role of nerves in enteric infection (1 December, 2002)
R C Spiller

Digest (1 December, 2002)
Ian Forgacs

Commentaries

Argon plasma coagulation therapy for ablation of Barrett’s oesophagus (1 December, 2002)
J Deviere
Appendix redux (1 December, 2002)
D B Sachar
Risk of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in chronic pancreatitis (1 December, 2002)
N Howes, J P Neoptolemos

Clinical @lert

Breast milk against coeliac disease (1 December, 2002)
L M Sollid

Science @lert

The NFκB luciferase mouse: a new tool for real time measurement of NFκB activation in the whole animal (1 December, 2002)
D A Mann

Oesophagus

Effect of chronic and acute cigarette smoking on the pharyngoglottal closure reflex (1 December, 2002)
K Dua, E Bardan, J Ren, Z Sui, R Shaker
Efficacy and one year follow up of argon plasma coagulation therapy for ablation of Barrett’s oesophagus: factors determining persistence and recurrence of Barrett’s epithelium (1 December, 2002)
K K Basu, B Pick, R Bale, K P West, J S de Caestecker

Stomach

SPECT imaging of the stomach: comparison with barostat, and effects of sex, age, body mass index, and fundoplication (1 December, 2002)
E P Bouras, S Delgado-Aros, M Camilleri, E J Castillo, D D Burton, G M Thomforde, H J Chial
Human transforming growth factor α (TGF-α) is digested to a smaller (1–43), less biologically active, form in acidic gastric juice (1 December, 2002)
T Marchbank, R Boulton, H Hansen, R J Playford

Cancer

Polyclonal nature of diffuse proliferation of interstitial cells of Cajal in patients with familial and multiple gastrointestinal stromal tumours (1 December, 2002)
H Chen, S Hirota, K Isozaki, H Sun, A Ohashi, K Kinoshita, P O’Brien, L Kapusta, I Dardick, T Obayashi, T Okazaki, Y Shinomura, Y Matsuzawa, Y Kitamura
Characterisation of colorectal cancers showing hypermethylation at multiple CpG islands (1 December, 2002)
M van Rijnsoever, F Grieu, H Elsaleh, D Joseph, B Iacopetta

inflammation and inflammatory bowel disease

Effects of appendicectomy on the course of ulcerative colitis (1 December, 2002)
J Cosnes, F Carbonnel, L Beaugerie, A Blain, D Reijasse, J-P Gendre
Protective role of appendicectomy on onset and severity of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease (1 December, 2002)
G L Radford-Smith, J E Edwards, D M Purdie, N Pandeya, M Watson, N G Martin, A Green, B Newman, T H J Florin
No seasonality in month of birth of inflammatory bowel disease cases: a prospective population based study of British under 20 year olds (1 December, 2002)
T R Card, A Sawczenko, B K Sandhu, R F A Logan
Effect of Pentavac and measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination on the intestine (1 December, 2002)
B Thjodleifsson, K Davídsdóttir, U Agnarsson, G Sigthórsson, M Kjeld, I Bjarnason
Colonic epithelial cells are a major site of macrophage inflammatory protein 3α (MIP-3α) production in normal colon and inflammatory bowel disease (1 December, 2002)
J H Kwon, S Keates, L Bassani, L F Mayer, A C Keates

Intestinal infection

A prospective randomised study of the probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum 299V on indices of gut barrier function in elective surgical patients
(1 December, 2002)
C E McNaught, N P Woodcock, J MacFie, C J Mitchell
Trends in indigenous foodborne disease and deaths, England and Wales: 1992 to 2000 (1 December, 2002)
G K Adak, S M Long, S J O’Brien
Lipopolysaccharide modulation of normal enterocyte turnover by toll-like receptors is mediated by endogenously produced tumour necrosis factor α (1 December, 2002)
F M Ruemmele, J F Beaulieu, S Dionne, E Levy, E G Seidman, N Cerf-Bensussan, M J Lentze

Pancreatic disease

Risk of pancreatic adenocarcinoma in chronic pancreatitis (1 December, 2002)
D Malka, P Hammel, F Maire, P Rufat, I Madeira, F Pessione, P Lévy, P Ruszniewski

Liver disease

Hepatopulmonary syndrome: prevalence and predictive value of various cut offs for arterial oxygenation and their clinical consequences (1 December, 2002)
P Schenk, V Fuhrmann, C Madl, G Funk, S Lehr, O Kandel, C Müller
Comparison of the hepatic clearances of campesterol, sitosterol, and cholesterol in healthy subjects suggests that efflux transporters controlling intestinal sterol absorption also regulate biliary secretion (1 December, 2002)
T Sudhop, Y Sahin, B Lindenthal, C Hahn, C Lüers, H K Berthold, K von Bergmann
Retreatment with interferon plus ribavirin of chronic hepatitis C non-responders to interferon monotherapy: a meta-analysis of individual patient data (1 December, 2002)
C Cammà, S Bruno, F Schepis, O Lo Iacono, P Andreone, A G Gramenzi, A Mangia, A Andriulli, M Puoti, A Spadaro, M Freni, V Di Marco, L Cino, G Saracco, A Chiesa, A Crosignani, N Caporaso, F Morisco, M G Rumi, A Craxì
Mechanisms of hyperinsulinaemia in Child’s disease grade B liver cirrhosis investigated in free living conditions (1 December, 2002)
A V Greco, G Mingrone, A Mari, E Capristo, M Manco, G Gasbarrini
Prospective study of liver dysfunction in pregnancy in Southwest Wales (1 December, 2002)
C L Ch’ng, M Morgan, I Hainsworth, J G C Kingham

Case report

Sacral nerve stimulation for faecal incontinence due to systemic sclerosis (1 December, 2002)
N J Kenefick, C J Vaizey, R J Nicholls, R Cohen, M A Kamm

Gut file

Accessory left biliary duct draining into the lesser curve of the stomach (1 December, 2002)
R Mascarenhas, R Varadarajan, J Mathias, O Traynor, J Geoghegan

Review

Functional heartburn: the stimulus, the pain, and the brain (1 December, 2002)
R Fass, G Tougas

Letters

Distinction between “high grade MALT” and diffuse large B cell lymphoma (1 December, 2002)
S Ely
Mortality with oesophageal varices: different things to different people (1 December, 2002)
K S Henley
Cytokeratin immunoreactivity of intestinal metaplasia (1 December, 2002)
I A Mouzas, I Jovanovic, T Milosavljevic, M Tzardi, P Kanavaros
Serrated adenomas in FAP (1 December, 2002)
M C Gallagher, R K S Phillips
Timing and sampling in surveillance of premalignant gastric lesions (1 December, 2002)
G Capurso, E Lahner, G Delle Fave, B Annibale
Coeliac disease and the risk of autoimmune disorders (1 December, 2002)
A Ventura, G Magazú, T Gerarduzzi, L Greco
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH): why biopsy? (1 December, 2002)
A McNair
Risk of gastric carcinoma in patients with atrophic gastritis and intestinal metaplasia (1 December, 2002)
J Y Kang, C Finlayson, J D Maxwell, P Neild

BOOK REVIEW

Somatostatin Analogs in Cancer Management (1 December, 2002)
S J Mather

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