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Original articles

Oesophagus

• Effect of azithromycin on acid reflux, hiatus hernia and proximal acid pocket in the postprandial period (20 January, 2012)

  W O Rohof, R J Bennink, A A de Ruigh, D P Hirsch, A H Zwinderman, G E Boeckxstaens

Stomach

• Spasmolytic polypeptide-expressing metaplasia (SPEM) in the gastric oxyntic mucosa does not arise from Lgr5-expressing cells (23 December, 2011)

  Ki Taek Nam, Ryan L O'Neal, Robert J Coffey, Paul E Finke, Nick Barker, James R Goldenring

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Geographical variation and incidence of inflammatory bowel disease among US women (11 January, 2012)

  Hamed Khalili, Edward S Huang, Ashwin N Ananthakrishnan, Leslie Higuchi, James M Richter, Charles S Fuchs, Andrew T Chan
• Secukinumab, a human anti-IL-17A monoclonal antibody, for moderate to severe Crohn's disease: unexpected results of a randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled trial (17 May, 2012)

  Wolfgang Hueber, Bruce E Sands, Steve Lewitzky, Marc Vandemeulebroecke, Walter Reinisch, Peter D R Higgins, Jan Wehkamp, Brian G Feagan, Michael D Yao, Marek Karczewski, Jacek Karczewski, Nicole Pezous, Stephan Bek, Gerard Bruin, Bjoern Mellgard, Claudia Berger, Marco Londei, Arthur P Bertolino, Gervais Tougas, Simon P L Travis, for the Secukinumab in Crohn's Disease Study Group

Gut microbiota

• Gut-derived lipopolysaccharide augments adipose macrophage accumulation but is not essential for impaired glucose or insulin tolerance in mice (25 April, 2012)

  Robert Caesar, Christopher S Reigstad, Helene Kling Bäckhed, Christoph Reinhardt, Maria Ketonen, Gunnel Östergren Lundén, Patrice D Cani, Fredrik Bäckhed

Colon

• 5-aminosalicylic acid inhibits cell cycle progression in a phospholipase D dependent manner in colorectal cancer (20 December, 2011)

  Bart Baan, Ashwin A Dihal, Eva Hoff, Carina L Bos, Philip W Voorneveld, Pim J Koelink, Manon E Wildenberg, Vanesa Muncan, Jarom Heijmans, Hein W Verspaget, Dick J Richel, James C H Hardwick, Daniel W Hommes, Maikel P Peppelenbosch, Gijs R van den Brink
• CT colonography for detection and characterisation of synchronous proximal colonic lesions in patients with stenosing colorectal cancer (23 November, 2011)

  Seong Ho Park, Ju Hee Lee, Seung Soo Lee, Jin Cheon Kim, Chang Sik Yu, Hee Cheol Kim, Byong Duk Ye, Mi-Jung Kim, Ah Young Kim, Hyun Kwon Ha

Pancreas

• Role of the ductal transcription factors HNF6 and Sox9 in pancreatic acinar-to-ductal metaplasia (22 January, 2012)

  Pierre-Paul Prévot, Alexandru Simion, Adrien Grimont, Marta Colletti, Abed Khalaileh, Géraldine Van den Steen, Christine Sempoux, Xiaobo Xu, Véronique Roelants, Jacob Hald, Luc Bertrand, Harry Heimberg, Stephen F Konieczny, Yuval Dor, Frédéric P Lemaigre, Patrick Jacquemin

Hepatology

• Adaptive immunity suppresses formation and progression of diethylnitrosamine-induced liver cancer (20 January, 2012)

  Carlo Schneider, Andreas Teufel, Tetyana Yevsa, Frank Staib, Anja Hohmeyer, Gudrun Walenda, Henning W Zimmermann, Mihael Vucur, Sebastian Huss, Nikolaus Gassler, Hermann E Wasmuth, Sergio A Lira, Lars Zender, Tom Luedde, Christian Trautwein, Frank Tacke
• Occult hepatitis B infection in blood donors from South East Asia: molecular characterisation and potential mechanisms of occurrence (20 January, 2012)

  Daniel Candotti, C Kit Lin, Dalila Belkhiri, Tasanee Sakuldamrongpanich, Subhajit Biswas, Sujen Lin, Diana Teo, Yasmin Ayob, Jean-Pierre Allain