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Original articles

Oesophagus

• Serum ghrelin is inversely associated with risk of subsequent oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (16 December, 2011)

  Gwen Murphy, Farin Kamangar, Demetrius Albanes, Frank Z Stanczyk, Stephanie J Weinstein, Philip R Taylor, Jarmo Virtamo, Christian C Abnet, Sanford M Dawsey, Neal D Freedman

Intestinal infection

• Statin use and the risk of Clostridium difficile in academic medical centres

  (22 March, 2012)

  Christine Anne Motzkus-Feagans, Amy Pakyz, Ronald Polk, Giovanni Gambassi, Kate L Lapane

Neurogastroenterology

• Functional neuroimaging demonstrates that ghrelin inhibits the central nervous system response to ingested lipid (7 February, 2012)

  Richard B Jones, Shane McKie, Nerys Astbury, Tanya J Little, Stacey Tivey, Daniel J Lassman, John McLaughlin, Simon Luckman, Steve R Williams, Graham J Dockray, David G Thompson

Colon

• Burden of colonoscopy compared to non-cathartic CT-colonography in a colorectal cancer screening programme: randomised controlled trial (23 December, 2011)

  Thomas R de Wijkerslooth, Margriet C de Haan, Esther M Stoop, Patrick M Bossuyt, Maarten Thomeer, Marie-Louise Essink-Bot, Monique E van Leerdam, Paul Fockens, Ernst J Kuipers, Jaap Stoker, Evelien Dekker
• ColoGuideEx: a robust gene classifier specific for stage II colorectal cancer prognosis (2 January, 2012)

  Trude H Ågesen, Anita Sveen, Marianne A Merok, Guro E Lind, Arild Nesbakken, Rolf I Skotheim, Ragnhild A Lothe
• TPX2 and AURKA promote 20q amplicon-driven colorectal adenoma to carcinoma progression

  (29 December, 2011)

  Anke H Sillars-Hardebol, Beatriz Carvalho, Marianne Tijssen, Jeroen A M Beliën, Meike de Wit, Pien M Delis-van Diemen, Fredrik Pontén, Mark A van de Wiel, Remond J A Fijneman, Gerrit A Meijer
• Interval cancers after negative colonoscopy: population-based case-control study (26 December, 2011)

  Hermann Brenner, Jenny Chang-Claude, Christoph M Seiler, Michael Hoffmeister

Pancreatic cancer

• Pancreatic cancer risk and levels of trace elements (19 December, 2011)

  André F S Amaral, Miquel Porta, Debra T Silverman, Roger L Milne, Manolis Kogevinas, Nathaniel Rothman, Kenneth P Cantor, Brian P Jackson, José A Pumarega, Tomàs López, Alfredo Carrato, Luisa Guarner, Francisco X Real, Núria Malats

Hepatology

• HCV genotype-3a T cell immunity: specificity, function and impact of therapy (15 February, 2012)

  Isla S Humphreys, Annette von Delft, Anthony Brown, Linda Hibbert, Jane D Collier, Graham R Foster, Monira Rahman, Annabel Christian, Paul Klenerman, Eleanor Barnes
• MicroRNA-221/222 upregulation indicates the activation of stellate cells and the progression of liver fibrosis (20 January, 2012)

  Tomohiro Ogawa, Masaru Enomoto, Hideki Fujii, Yumiko Sekiya, Katsutoshi Yoshizato, Kazuo Ikeda, Norifumi Kawada

Recent advances in basic science

• Bacterial proteases in IBD and IBS (7 September, 2011)

  Natalie Steck, Kerstin Mueller, Michael Schemann, Dirk Haller