Table of contents

Original articles

Oesophagus

• Original article: Learners favour high resolution oesophageal manometry with better diagnostic accuracy over conventional line tracings (13 October, 2011)

  A Samad Soudagar, Gregory S Sayuk, C Prakash Gyawali

Stomach

• Original article: Inhibitors of acid secretion can benefit gastric wound repair independent of luminal pH effects on the site of damage (13 October, 2011)

  Elise S Demitrack, Eitaro Aihara, Susan Kenny, Andrea Varro, Marshall H Montrose
• Original article:

  Effects of selective COX-2 inhibitor and Helicobacter pylori eradication on precancerous gastric lesions

  (13 September, 2011)

  Benjamin C Y Wong, Lian Zhang, Jun-ling Ma, Kai-feng Pan, Ji-you Li, Lin Shen, Wei-dong Liu, Guo-shuang Feng, Xiao-dong Zhang, Jie Li, Ai-ping Lu, Harry H X Xia, Shiukum Lam, Wei-cheng You

Neurogastroenterology

• Original article: A placebo-controlled trial of acotiamide for meal-related symptoms of functional dyspepsia (9 December, 2011)

  Kei Matsueda, Michio Hongo, Jan Tack, Youichi Saito, Hiroki Kato

Probiotics

• Original article: Lactobacillus probiotic protects intestinal epithelium from radiation injury in a TLR-2/cyclo-oxygenase-2-dependent manner (24 October, 2011)

  Matthew A Ciorba, Terrence E Riehl, M Suprada Rao, Clara Moon, Xueping Ee, Gerardo M Nava, Monica R Walker, Jeffrey M Marinshaw, Thaddeus S Stappenbeck, William F Stenson

Gastrointestinal neoplasia

• Original article: Aberrant intestinal stem cell lineage dynamics in Peutz–Jeghers syndrome and familial adenomatous polyposis consistent with protracted clonal evolution in the crypt (22 September, 2011)

  Danielle Langeveld, Marnix Jansen, D V de Boer, Mariska van Sprundel, Lodewijk A A Brosens, Folkert H Morsink, Francis M Giardiello, G Johan A Offerhaus, Wendy W J de Leng

Colon

• Original article: Assessment of colorectal cancer molecular features along bowel subsites challenges the conception of distinct dichotomy of proximal versus distal colorectum (17 March, 2012) Free

  Mai Yamauchi, Teppei Morikawa, Aya Kuchiba, Yu Imamura, Zhi Rong Qian, Reiko Nishihara, Xiaoyun Liao, Levi Waldron, Yujin Hoshida, Curtis Huttenhower, Andrew T Chan, Edward Giovannucci, Charles Fuchs, Shuji Ogino
• Original article: Cell surface proteomics identifies glucose transporter type 1 and prion protein as candidate biomarkers for colorectal adenoma-to-carcinoma progression (2 September, 2011)

  Meike de Wit, Connie R Jimenez, Beatriz Carvalho, Jeroen A M Belien, Pien M Delis-van Diemen, Sandra Mongera, Sander R Piersma, Maindad Vikas, Sanjay Navani, Fredrik Pontén, Gerrit A Meijer, Remond J A Fijneman
• Original article: Comparison between universal molecular screening for Lynch syndrome and revised Bethesda guidelines in a large population-based cohort of patients with colorectal cancer (25 August, 2011)

  Lucía Pérez-Carbonell, Clara Ruiz-Ponte, Carla Guarinos, Cristina Alenda, Artemio Payá, Alejandro Brea, Cecilia M Egoavil, Adela Castillejo, Victor M Barberá, Xavier Bessa, Rosa M Xicola, María Rodríguez-Soler, Cristina Sánchez-Fortún, Nuria Acame, Sergi Castellví-Bel, Virgínia Piñol, Francesc Balaguer, Luis Bujanda, María-Luisa De-Castro, Xavier Llor, Montserrat Andreu, Angel Carracedo, José-Luis Soto, Antoni Castells, Rodrigo Jover

Pancreas

• Original article: Increased risk of acute pancreatitis among tetracycline users in a Swedish population-based case–control study (27 September, 2011)

  Rickard Ljung, Jesper Lagergren, Tomas S Bexelius, Fredrik Mattsson, Mats Lindblad
• Original article: Cathepsin B promotes the progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in mice (9 December, 2011)

  Aarthi Gopinathan, Gina M DeNicola, Kristopher K Frese, Natalie Cook, Florian A Karreth, Julia Mayerle, Markus M Lerch, Thomas Reinheckel, David A Tuveson

Hepatology

• Original article: NKp46-mediated killing of human and mouse hepatic stellate cells attenuates liver fibrosis (23 December, 2011)

  Chamutal Gur, Sarit Doron, Shlomit Kfir-Erenfeld, Elad Horwitz, Lina Abu-tair, Rifaat Safadi, Ofer Mandelboim
• Original article: Therapeutic potential of a distinct population of human amniotic fluid mesenchymal stem cells and their secreted molecules in mice with acute hepatic failure (13 October, 2011)

  Dimitra S Zagoura, Maria G Roubelakis, Vasiliki Bitsika, Ourania Trohatou, Kalliopi I Pappa, Alkistis Kapelouzou, Aristidis Antsaklis, Nicholas P Anagnou
• Original article:

  Bone marrow transplantation improves hepatic fibrosis in Abcb4^−/− mice via Th1 response and matrix metalloproteinase activity

  (25 August, 2011)

  Martin Roderfeld, Timo Rath, Sravanthi Pasupuleti, Marc Zimmermann, Caterina Neumann, Yuri Churin, Christian Dierkes, Robert Voswinckel, Peter J Barth, Daniel Zahner, Jürgen Graf, Elke Roeb