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Letters

• Authors’ reply (5 March, 2007)

  Robertino Mera, Elizabeth T H Fontham, Luis E Bravo, Juan C Bravo, Maria Blanca Piazuelo, Maria Constanza Camargo, Pelayo Correa
• Treatment of patients with lamivudine-resistant and adefovir dipivoxil-resistant chronic hepatitis B virus infection: is tenofovir the answer? (5 March, 2007)

  J Trojan, M Stuermer, G Teuber, A Berger, D Faust
• Further evidence supporting a psychological component to irritable bowel syndrome (5 March, 2007)

  M Castle, G W Libby
• Abdominal epilepsy, an uncommon cause of recurrent abdominal pain: a brief report (5 March, 2007)

  Sangit Ranjan Dutta, Indrajit Hazarika, Bhabani Prasad Chakravarty
• The pattern of cytokine expression determines the degree of mucosal damage (5 March, 2007)

  A J León, E Gómez, J A Garrote, E Arranz
• Weight loss induced by orlistat reverses fatty infiltration and improves hepatic fibrosis in obese patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (5 March, 2007)

  Nimer Assy, Osamah Hussein, Zied Abassi
• Screening for coeliac disease in patients fulfilling the Rome II criteria for irritable bowel syndrome in a secondary care hospital in The Netherlands: a prospective observational study (5 March, 2007)

  Egbert-Jan van der Wouden, G Frits Nelis, Juda Vecht
• Functional polymorphisms in the promoters of MMP-1, MMP-2, MMP-3, MMP-9, MMP-12 and MMP-13 are not associated with hepatocellular carcinoma risk

  (5 March, 2007)

  Yun Zhai, Wei Qiu, Xiao-Jia Dong, Xiu-Mei Zhang, Wei-Min Xie, Hong-Xing Zhang, Xiao-Yan Yuan, Gang-Qiao Zhou, Fu-Chu He
• Octreotide LAR for severe obscure-overt gastrointestinal haemorrhage in high-risk patients on anticoagulation therapy (5 March, 2007)

  J Molina-Infante, B Perez-Gallardo, G Gonzalez-Garcia, M Fernandez-Bermejo, J M Mateos-Rodriguez, P Robledo-Andres
• Acute surgical abdomen—an atypical presentation of Plasmodium vivax malaria

  (5 March, 2007)

  Sunil Gopisetty, Jonahan Sarveswaran, Raj Achuthan, J Davies, J R Ausobsky
• Submucosal xanthachromia after endoscopic mucosal resection: laparotomy or conservative therapy? (5 March, 2007)

  Hisashi Nakamura, Kuang-I Fu, David Paul Hurlstone, Yasushi Kaji, Takahiro Fujimori
• Complete response in a patient with colonic mantle cell lymphoma with multiple lymphomatous polyposis treated with combination chemotherapy using anti-CD20 antibody and cladribine (5 March, 2007)

  Takuya Watanabe, Nobuyuki Homma, Norio Ogata, Hiroyuki Saito, Tsutomu Kanefuji, Katsuhiko Hasegawa, Kenji Soga, Koichi Shibasaki, Takeshi Endo, Yoichi Ajioka
• Response from the hornet’s nest: furthering the debate on transplantation for alcoholic liver disease (5 March, 2007)

  Kerry Webb, Liz Shepherd
• Patients with functional constipation do not have increased prevalence of colorectal cancer precursors (5 March, 2007)

  Annie On On Chan, Wai Mo Hui, Gigi Leung, Teresa Tong, Ivan F N Hung, Pierre Chan, Axel Hsu, David But, Benjamin C Y Wong, Shiu Kum Lam, Kwok Fai Lam