Table of contents

Letters

• Hepatitis C virus clearance and gender (22 May, 2007)

  T Stroffolini, M Rapicetta, R Di Stefano
• Inadequate statistical power in Barrett’s oesophagus ablation study (22 May, 2007)

  C H Lim, V Ramappa, M M Ahmed
• Development of a bioartificial new intestinal segment using an acellular matrix scaffold (22 May, 2007)

  Mohan P Pahari, Melissa L Brown, Georg Elias, Hannan Nseir, Barbara Banner, Cristiana Rastellini, Luca Cicalese
• No evidence of persisting measles virus in the intestinal tissues of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (22 May, 2007)

  Yasmin D’Souza, Serge Dionne, Ernest G Seidman, Alain Bitton, Brian J Ward
• Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea: bovine anti-Clostridium difficile whey protein to help aid the prevention of relapses

  (22 May, 2007)

  Sandra C Numan, Peter Veldkamp, Ed J Kuijper, Renate J van den Berg, Jaap T van Dissel
• Is gliadin really safe for non-coeliac individuals? Production of interleukin 15 in biopsy culture from non-coeliac individuals challenged with gliadin peptides (22 May, 2007)

  D Bernardo, J A Garrote, L Fernández-Salazar, S Riestra, E Arranz
• The value of endothelin 1 in the early diagnosis of severe intestinal strangulation (22 May, 2007)

  M Grigoriou, I Koutelidakis, V Papaziogas, C Lazaridis, A Souparis, G Chatzimavroudis, C Atmatzidis, G Koliakos, D Gerasimidou
• The RANTES −28 g polymorphism is associated with primary sclerosing cholangitis (22 May, 2007)

  Liesbet Henckaerts, Johan Fevery, Werner Van Steenbergen, Chris Verslype, Frederik Nevens, Paul Yap, Tania Roskams, Paul Rutgeerts, Severine Vermeire
• Increased risk of colorectal neoplasia in asymptomatic liver-transplant recipients (22 May, 2007)

  J J Koornstra, J Wesseling, A E de Jong, H F A Vasen, J H Kleibeuker, E B Haagsma
• Visceral leishmaniasis causes fever and decompensation in patients with cirrhosis (22 May, 2007)

  Pasquale Pagliano, Novella Carannante, Marina Gramiccia, Tiziana Ascione, Gianfranca Stornaiuolo, Luigi Gradoni, Francesco S Faella, Giovanni B Gaeta
• Magnifying videoendoscopic findings of Peyer’s patches in the terminal ileum of Crohn’s disease (22 May, 2007)

  Saburo Shikuwa, Hajime Isomoto, Yohei Mizuta, Takashi Suematsu, Masahiro Ito, Shigeru Kohno
• Internationalisation of high-impact gastroenterology journals, 1970–2005 (22 May, 2007)

  Phil A Hart, Jamal A Ibdah, John B Marshall