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Original articles

• Original article: Mechanism of association between BMI and dysfunction of the gastro-oesophageal barrier in patients with normal endoscopy (28 August, 2011)

  Mohammad H Derakhshan, Elaine V Robertson, Jonathan Fletcher, Gareth-Rhys Jones, Yeong Yeh Lee, Angela A Wirz, Kenneth E L McColl
• Original article: Synergistic tumour suppressor activity of E-cadherin and p53 in a conditional mouse model for metastatic diffuse-type gastric cancer (24 August, 2011)

  Shu Shimada, Ayako Mimata, Masaki Sekine, Kaoru Mogushi, Yoshimitsu Akiyama, Hiroshi Fukamachi, Jos Jonkers, Hiroshi Tanaka, Yoshinobu Eishi, Yasuhito Yuasa
• Original article:

  Bifidobacterium infantis 35624 administration induces Foxp3 T regulatory cells in human peripheral blood: potential role for myeloid and plasmacytoid dendritic cells

  (3 November, 2011) Free

  Patrycja Konieczna, David Groeger, Mario Ziegler, Remo Frei, Ruth Ferstl, Fergus Shanahan, Eamonn M M Quigley, Barry Kiely, Cezmi A Akdis, Liam O'Mahony
• Original article: Visceral hypersensitivity in endometriosis: a new target for treatment? (25 August, 2011)

  B Issa, T S Onon, A Agrawal, C Shekhar, J Morris, S Hamdy, P J Whorwell
• Original article: Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) promotes susceptibility of Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5) deficient mice to colitis (5 June, 2011)

  Frederic A Carvalho, Ilke Nalbantoglu, Sophie Ortega-Fernandez, Jesse D Aitken, Yueju Su, Omry Koren, William A Walters, Rob Knight, Ruth E Ley, Matam Vijay-Kumar, Andrew T Gewirtz
• Original article: Serological response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccination in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (13 July, 2011)

  Garret Cullen, Caroline Bader, Joshua R Korzenik, Bruce E Sands
• Original article: Aberrant DNA methylation associated with aggressiveness of gastrointestinal stromal tumour (27 June, 2011)

  Yasuyuki Okamoto, Akira Sawaki, Seiji Ito, Toshirou Nishida, Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Minoru Toyota, Hiromu Suzuki, Yasuhisa Shinomura, Ichiro Takeuchi, Keiko Shinjo, Byonggu An, Hidemi Ito, Kenji Yamao, Makiko Fujii, Hideki Murakami, Hirotaka Osada, Hiromi Kataoka, Takashi Joh, Yoshitaka Sekido, Yutaka Kondo
• Original article: Higher adenoma detection rates with cap-assisted colonoscopy: a randomised controlled trial (13 October, 2011)

  Amit Rastogi, Ajay Bansal, Deepthi S Rao, Neil Gupta, Sachin B Wani, Tracy Shipe, Srinivas Gaddam, Vikas Singh, Prateek Sharma
• Original article: Prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and advanced fibrosis in Hong Kong Chinese: a population study using proton-magnetic resonance spectroscopy and transient elastography (16 August, 2011)

  Vincent Wai-Sun Wong, Winnie Chiu-Wing Chu, Grace Lai-Hung Wong, Ruth Suk-Mei Chan, Angel Mei-Ling Chim, Arlinking Ong, David Ka-Wai Yeung, Karen Kar-Lum Yiu, Shirley Ho-Ting Chu, Jean Woo, Francis Ka-Leung Chan, Henry Lik-Yuen Chan
• Original article: Pharmacological inhibition of the chemokine CCL2 (MCP-1) diminishes liver macrophage infiltration and steatohepatitis in chronic hepatic injury (3 August, 2011)

  Christer Baeck, Alexander Wehr, Karlin Raja Karlmark, Felix Heymann, Mihael Vucur, Nikolaus Gassler, Sebastian Huss, Sven Klussmann, Dirk Eulberg, Tom Luedde, Christian Trautwein, Frank Tacke
• Original article: Chemokine-driven lymphocyte infiltration: an early intratumoural event determining long-term survival in resectable hepatocellular carcinoma (19 September, 2011)

  Valerie Chew, Jinmiao Chen, Deming Lee, Evelyn Loh, Joyce Lee, Kiat Hon Lim, Achim Weber, Ksenija Slankamenac, Ronnie T P Poon, Henry Yang, London Lucien P J Ooi, Han Chong Toh, Mathias Heikenwalder, Irene O L Ng, Alessandra Nardin, Jean-Pierre Abastado
• Original article: Recruitment of histone deacetylases HDAC1 and HDAC2 by the transcriptional repressor ZEB1 downregulates E-cadherin expression in pancreatic cancer (5 December, 2011)

  Ali Aghdassi, Matthias Sendler, Annett Guenther, Julia Mayerle, Claas-Olsen Behn, Claus-Dieter Heidecke, Helmut Friess, Markus Büchler, Matthias Evert, Markus M Lerch, Frank Ulrich Weiss