Table of contents

Original articles

Oesophagus

• Barrett's metaplasia glands are clonal, contain multiple stem cells and share a common squamous progenitor (26 December, 2011)

  Anna M Nicholson, Trevor A Graham, Ashley Simpson, Adam Humphries, Nicola Burch, Manuel Rodriguez-Justo, Marco Novelli, Rebecca Harrison, Nicholas A Wright, Stuart A C McDonald, Janusz A Jankowski
• Changes in prevalence, incidence and spontaneous loss of gastro-oesophageal reflux symptoms: a prospective population-based cohort study, the HUNT study (21 December, 2011)

  Eivind Ness-Jensen, Anna Lindam, Jesper Lagergren, Kristian Hveem

Stomach

• IL-11 is a parietal cell cytokine that induces atrophic gastritis (16 December, 2011)

  Meegan Howlett, Heather V Chalinor, Jon N Buzzelli, Nhung Nguyen, Ian R van Driel, Katrina M Bell, James G Fox, Eva Dimitriadis, Trevelyan R Menheniott, Andrew S Giraud, Louise M Judd

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Impact of gastroenterologist care on health outcomes of hospitalised ulcerative colitis patients (8 June, 2012)

  Sanjay K Murthy, A Hillary Steinhart, Jill Tinmouth, Peter C Austin, Geoffrey C Nguyen
• The human milk oligosaccharide disialyllacto-N-tetraose prevents necrotising enterocolitis in neonatal rats (3 December, 2011)

  Evelyn Jantscher-Krenn, Monica Zherebtsov, Caroline Nissan, Kerstin Goth, Yigit S Guner, Natasha Naidu, Biswa Choudhury, Anatoly V Grishin, Henri R Ford, Lars Bode

Endoscopy

• Adenoma detection with cap-assisted colonoscopy versus regular colonoscopy: a randomised controlled trial (20 December, 2011)

  Thomas R de Wijkerslooth, Esther M Stoop, Patrick M Bossuyt, Elisabeth M H Mathus-Vliegen, Jan Dees, Kristien M A J Tytgat, Monique E van Leerdam, Paul Fockens, Ernst J Kuipers, Evelien Dekker

Colon

• Original articles:

  Entopic overexpression of Ascl2 does not accelerate tumourigenesis in Apc^Min mice

  (3 December, 2011)

  Karen R Reed, Simon J Tunster, Madeleine Young, Adam Carrico, Rosalind M John, Alan R Clarke
• Outcomes of the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) in England after the first 1 million tests (7 December, 2011)

  Richard F A Logan, Julietta Patnick, Claire Nickerson, Lynn Coleman, Matt D Rutter, Christian von Wagner
• miR-150 as a potential biomarker associated with prognosis and therapeutic outcome in colorectal cancer (3 November, 2011)

  Yanlei Ma, Peng Zhang, Feng Wang, Huizhen Zhang, Jianjun Yang, Jiayuan Peng, Weijie Liu, Huanlong Qin

Pancreas

• Concurrent PEDF deficiency and Kras mutation induce invasive pancreatic cancer and adipose-rich stroma in mice (10 January, 2012)

  Paul J Grippo, Philip S Fitchev, David J Bentrem, Laleh G Melstrom, Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, Seth B Krantz, Michael J Heiferman, Chuhan Chung, Kevin Adrian, Mona L Cornwell, Jan B Flesche, Sambasiva M Rao, Mark S Talamonti, Hidayatullah G Munshi, Susan E Crawford

Hepatology

• Discoidin domain receptor 2 deficiency predisposes hepatic tissue to colon carcinoma metastasis (9 November, 2011)

  Iker Badiola, Elvira Olaso, Olatz Crende, Scott L Friedman, Fernando Vidal-Vanaclocha
• Insulin resistance and response to telaprevir plus peginterferon α and ribavirin in treatment-naïve patients infected with HCV genotype 1 (2 March, 2012)

  Lawrence Serfaty, Xavier Forns, Tobias Goeser, Peter Ferenci, Frederik Nevens, Giampiero Carosi, Joost P Drenth, Isabelle Lonjon-Domanec, Ralph DeMasi, Gaston Picchio, Maria Beumont, Patrick Marcellin
• Prospective validation of an immunohistochemical panel (glypican 3, heat shock protein 70 and glutamine synthetase) in liver biopsies for diagnosis of very early hepatocellular carcinoma (27 January, 2012)

  Silvia Tremosini, Alejandro Forner, Loreto Boix, Ramon Vilana, Luis Bianchi, Maria Reig, Jordi Rimola, Carlos Rodríguez-Lope, Carmen Ayuso, Manel Solé, Jordi Bruix