Table of contents

Original articles

Oesophagus

• Gender differences in oesophageal mucosal injury in a reflux oesophagitis model of rats (27 January, 2012)

  Tomohiro Masaka, Katsunori Iijima, Hiroyuki Endo, Kiyotaka Asanuma, Nobuyuki Ara, Fumitake Ishiyama, Naoki Asano, Tomoyuki Koike, Akira Imatani, Tooru Shimosegawa
• Standard endoscopy with random biopsies versus narrow band imaging targeted biopsies in Barrett's oesophagus: a prospective, international, randomised controlled trial (7 February, 2012)

  Prateek Sharma, Robert H Hawes, Ajay Bansal, Neil Gupta, Wouter Curvers, Amit Rastogi, Mandeep Singh, Matt Hall, Sharad C Mathur, Sachin B Wani, Brenda Hoffman, Srinivas Gaddam, Paul Fockens, Jacques J Bergman

Stomach

• Integrated epigenomics identifies BMP4 as a modulator of cisplatin sensitivity in gastric cancer

  (25 April, 2012)

  Tatiana Ivanova, Hermioni Zouridis, Yonghui Wu, Lai Ling Cheng, Iain Beehuat Tan, Veena Gopalakrishnan, Chia Huey Ooi, Julian Lee, Luo Qin, Jeanie Wu, Minghui Lee, Sun Young Rha, Dan Huang, Natalia Liem, Khay Guan Yeoh, Wei Peng Yong, Bin Tean Teh, Patrick Tan

Helicobacter pylori

• Helicobacter pylori resistance to antibiotics in Europe and its relationship to antibiotic consumption

  (12 May, 2012)

  Francis Megraud, Samuel Coenen, Ann Versporten, Manfred Kist, Manuel Lopez-Brea, Alexander M Hirschl, Leif P Andersen, Herman Goossens, Youri Glupczynski, on behalf of the Study Group participants

Coeliac disease

• The Oslo definitions for coeliac disease and related terms (16 February, 2012) Free

  Jonas F Ludvigsson, Daniel A Leffler, Julio C Bai, Federico Biagi, Alessio Fasano, Peter H R Green, Marios Hadjivassiliou, Katri Kaukinen, Ciaran P Kelly, Jonathan N Leonard, Knut Erik Aslaksen Lundin, Joseph A Murray, David S Sanders, Marjorie M Walker, Fabiana Zingone, Carolina Ciacci

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Ectopic lymphoid tissue alters the chemokine gradient, increases lymphocyte retention and exacerbates murine ileitis (20 January, 2012)

  Eóin N McNamee, Joanne C Masterson, Paul Jedlicka, Colm B Collins, Ifor R Williams, Jesús Rivera-Nieves
• Interleukin-13 and transforming growth factor β synergise in the pathogenesis of human intestinal fistulae (27 January, 2012)

  Michael Scharl, Sandra Frei, Theresa Pesch, Silvia Kellermeier, Joba Arikkat, Pascal Frei, Michael Fried, Achim Weber, Ekkehard Jehle, Anne Rühl, Gerhard Rogler
• Necrotising enterocolitis is characterised by disrupted immune regulation and diminished mucosal regulatory (FOXP3)/effector (CD4, CD8) T cell ratios (20 January, 2012)

  Jörn-Hendrik Weitkamp, Tatsuki Koyama, Michael T Rock, Hernan Correa, Jeremy A Goettel, Pranathi Matta, Kyra Oswald-Richter, Michael J Rosen, Brian G Engelhardt, Daniel J Moore, D Brent Polk

Colon

• A basal gradient of Wnt and stem-cell number influences regional tumour distribution in human and mouse intestinal tracts (27 January, 2012)

  Simon J Leedham, Pedro Rodenas-Cuadrado, Kimberley Howarth, Annabelle Lewis, Sreelakshmi Mallappa, Stefania Segditsas, Hayley Davis, Rosemary Jeffery, Manuel Rodriguez-Justo, Satish Keshav, Simon P L Travis, Trevor A Graham, James East, Susan Clark, Ian P M Tomlinson
• Chromosome 20p11 gains are associated with liver-specific metastasis in patients with colorectal cancer (20 January, 2012)

  Leonie J M Mekenkamp, Josien C Haan, Miriam Koopman, M Elisa Vink-Börger, Daniëlle Israeli, Steven Teerenstra, Bauke Ylstra, Gerrit A Meijer, Cornelis J A Punt, Iris D Nagtegaal

Pancreas

• Classification of acute pancreatitis—2012: revision of the Atlanta classification and definitions by international consensus (25 October, 2012) Free

  Peter A Banks, Thomas L Bollen, Christos Dervenis, Hein G Gooszen, Colin D Johnson, Michael G Sarr, Gregory G Tsiotos, Santhi Swaroop Vege
• Hyaluronan impairs vascular function and drug delivery in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer (30 March, 2012)

  Michael A Jacobetz, Derek S Chan, Albrecht Neesse, Tashinga E Bapiro, Natalie Cook, Kristopher K Frese, Christine Feig, Tomoaki Nakagawa, Meredith E Caldwell, Heather I Zecchini, Martijn P Lolkema, Ping Jiang, Anne Kultti, Curtis B Thompson, Daniel C Maneval, Duncan I Jodrell, Gregory I Frost, H M Shepard, Jeremy N Skepper, David A Tuveson

Hepatology

• Urine proteomic analysis differentiates cholangiocarcinoma from primary sclerosing cholangitis and other benign biliary disorders (12 May, 2012)

  Jochen Metzger, Ahmed A Negm, Ruben R Plentz, Tobias J Weismüller, Jochen Wedemeyer, Tom H Karlsen, Mohammed Dakna, William Mullen, Harald Mischak, Michael P Manns, Tim O Lankisch
• Acute kidney injury in decompensated cirrhosis (25 May, 2012)

  Cynthia D Tsien, Rania Rabie, Florence Wong
• Increased nitric oxide production in lymphatic endothelial cells causes impairment of lymphatic drainage in cirrhotic rats (20 January, 2012)

  Jordi Ribera, Montse Pauta, Pedro Melgar-Lesmes, Sònia Tugues, Guillermo Fernández-Varo, Kara F Held, Guadalupe Soria, Raúl Tudela, Anna M Planas, Carlos Fernández-Hernando, Vicente Arroyo, Wladimiro Jiménez, Manuel Morales-Ruiz