Table of contents

Original articles

Stomach

• Original article:

  Hepcidin is localised in gastric parietal cells, regulates acid secretion and is induced by Helicobacter pylori infection

  (13 July, 2011)

  Peggy Schwarz, Johanna A M Kübler, Pavel Strnad, Katrin Müller, Thomas F E Barth, Andreas Gerloff, Peter Feick, Carole Peyssonnaux, Sophie Vaulont, Guido Adler, Hasan Kulaksiz

GI neoplasia

• Original article: Intestinal renin–angiotensin system is stimulated after deletion of Lkb1 (3 August, 2011)

  Boris Y Shorning, Thierry Jardé, Afshan McCarthy, Alan Ashworth, Wendy W J de Leng, George Johan A Offerhaus, Nicoletta Resta, Trevor Dale, Alan R Clarke

Neurogastroenterology

• Original article: Irritable bowel syndrome and chronic fatigue 3 years after acute giardiasis: historic cohort study (12 September, 2011)

  Knut-Arne Wensaas, Nina Langeland, Kurt Hanevik, Kristine Mørch, Geir Egil Eide, Guri Rortveit

Coeliac disease

• Original article: Cell polarity-determining proteins Par-3 and PP-1 are involved in epithelial tight junction defects in coeliac disease (24 August, 2011)

  Michael Schumann, Dorothee Günzel, Nataly Buergel, Jan F Richter, Hanno Troeger, Claudia May, Anja Fromm, Detlef Sorgenfrei, Severin Daum, Christian Bojarski, Martine Heyman, Martin Zeitz, Michael Fromm, Joerg-Dieter Schulzke

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Original article: Switch to adalimumab in patients with Crohn's disease controlled by maintenance infliximab: prospective randomised SWITCH trial (23 September, 2011)

  Gert Van Assche, Séverine Vermeire, Vera Ballet, Frederik Gabriels, Maja Noman, Geert D'Haens, Christophe Claessens, Evelien Humblet, Niels Vande Casteele, Ann Gils, Paul Rutgeerts
• Original article: Thiopurines prevent advanced colorectal neoplasia in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (20 May, 2011)

  Fiona D M van Schaik, Martijn G H van Oijen, Hugo M Smeets, Geert J M G van der Heijden, Peter D Siersema, Bas Oldenburg
• Original article: Development of the first disability index for inflammatory bowel disease based on the international classification of functioning, disability and health (5 June, 2011)

  Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, Alarcos Cieza, William J Sandborn, Michaela Coenen, Yehuda Chowers, Toshifumi Hibi, Nenad Kostanjsek, Gerold Stucki, Jean-Frédéric Colombel, the International Programme to Develop New Indexes for Crohn's Disease (IPNIC) group*

Colon

• Original article:

  TERC polymorphisms are associated both with susceptibility to colorectal cancer and with longer telomeres

  (27 June, 2011)

  A M Jones, A D Beggs, L Carvajal-Carmona, S Farrington, A Tenesa, M Walker, K Howarth, S Ballereau, S V Hodgson, A Zauber, M Bertagnolli, R Midgley, H Campbell, D Kerr, M G Dunlop, I P M Tomlinson
• Original article: Prevention by daily soluble aspirin of colorectal adenoma recurrence: 4-year results of the APACC randomised trial (2 September, 2011)

  Robert Benamouzig, Bernard Uzzan, Jacques Deyra, Antoine Martin, Bernard Girard, Julian Little, Stanislas Chaussade, for the Association pour la Prévention par l'Aspirine du Cancer Colorectal Study Group (APACC)*

Pancreas

• Original article: Cigarette smoking, smoking cessation and acute pancreatitis: a prospective population-based study (11 August, 2011)

  O Sadr-Azodi, Å Andrén-Sandberg, N Orsini, A Wolk

Hepatology

• Original article: Interleukin-6-driven progranulin expression increases cholangiocarcinoma growth by an Akt-dependent mechanism (7 November, 2011)

  Gabriel Frampton, Pietro Invernizzi, Francesca Bernuzzi, Hae Yong Pae, Matthew Quinn, Darijana Horvat, Cheryl Galindo, Li Huang, Matthew McMillin, Brandon Cooper, Lorenza Rimassa, Sharon DeMorrow
• Original article: The putative tumour suppressor microRNA-124 modulates hepatocellular carcinoma cell aggressiveness by repressing ROCK2 and EZH2 (14 June, 2011)

  Fang Zheng, Yi-Ji Liao, Mu-Yan Cai, Yan-Hui Liu, Tian-Hao Liu, Shu-Peng Chen, Xiu-Wu Bian, Xin-Yuan Guan, Marie C Lin, Yi-Xin Zeng, Hsiang-Fu Kung, Dan Xie
• Original article: Impact of hepatitis C triple therapy availability upon the number of patients to be treated and associated costs in France: a model-based analysis (19 September, 2011)

  Sylvie Deuffic-Burban, Philippe Mathurin, Stanislas Pol, Christine Larsen, Françoise Roudot-Thoraval, Jean Claude Desenclos, Daniel Dhumeaux, Yazdan Yazdanpanah