Table of contents

Original articles

Oesophagus

• Original article: The oesophageal string test: a novel, minimally invasive method measures mucosal inflammation in eosinophilic oesophagitis (15 August, 2012)

  Glenn T Furuta, Amir F Kagalwalla, James J Lee, Preeth Alumkal, Brian T Maybruck, Sophie Fillon, Joanne C Masterson, Sergei Ochkur, Cheryl Protheroe, Wendy Moore, Zhaoxing Pan, Katie Amsden, Zachary Robinson, Kelley Capocelli, Vince Mukkada, Dan Atkins, David Fleischer, Lindsay Hosford, Mark A Kwatia, Shauna Schroeder, Caleb Kelly, Mark Lovell, Hector Melin-Aldana, Steven J Ackerman
• Original article: A global assessment of the oesophageal adenocarcinoma epidemic (23 August, 2012)

  Gustaf Edgren, Hans-Olov Adami, Elisabete Weiderpass, Olof Nyrén

Upper GI cancer

• Original article: A systematic approach to therapeutic target selection in oesophago-gastric cancer (6 July, 2012) Free

  Anna L Paterson, Nicholas B Shannon, Pierre Lao-Sirieix, Chin-Ann J Ong, Christopher J Peters, Maria O'Donovan, Rebecca C Fitzgerald

Endoscopy

• Original article: Scheduled endoscopic surveillance controls secondary cancer after curative endoscopic resection for early gastric cancer: a multicentre retrospective cohort study by Osaka University ESD study group (21 August, 2012)

  Motohiko Kato, Tsutomu Nishida, Katsumi Yamamoto, Shiro Hayashi, Shinji Kitamura, Takamasa Yabuta, Toshiyuki Yoshio, Takeshi Nakamura, Masato Komori, Naoki Kawai, Akihiro Nishihara, Fumihiko Nakanishi, Masanori Nakahara, Hideharu Ogiyama, Kazuo Kinoshita, Takuya Yamada, Hideki Iijima, Masahiko Tsujii, Tetsuo Takehara

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Original article:

  The NOD2insC polymorphism is associated with worse outcome following ileal pouch-anal anastomosis for ulcerative colitis

  (9 August, 2012)

  Andrea D Tyler, Raquel Milgrom, Joanne M Stempak, Wei Xu, John Hunter Brumell, Aleixo M Muise, Rishabh Sehgal, Zane Cohen, Walter Koltun, Bo Shen, Mark S Silverberg
• Original article:

  A genome-wide association study on a southern European population identifies a new Crohn's disease susceptibility locus at RBX1-EP300

  (30 August, 2012)

  Antonio Julià, Eugeni Domènech, Elena Ricart, Raül Tortosa, Valle García-Sánchez, Javier P Gisbert, Pilar Nos Mateu, Ana Gutiérrez, Fernando Gomollón, Juan Luís Mendoza, Esther Garcia-Planella, Manuel Barreiro-de Acosta, Fernando Muñoz, Maribel Vera, Cristina Saro, Maria Esteve, Montserrat Andreu, Arnald Alonso, María López-Lasanta, Laia Codó, Josep Lluís Gelpí, Andres C García-Montero, Jaume Bertranpetit, Devin Absher, Julián Panés, Sara Marsal

Experimental colitis

• Original article: MTG16 contributes to colonic epithelial integrity in experimental colitis (24 July, 2012)

  Christopher S Williams, Amber M Bradley, Rupesh Chaturvedi, Kshipra Singh, Maria B Piazuelo, Xi Chen, Elizabeth M McDonough, David A Schwartz, Caroline T Brown, Margaret M Allaman, Lori A Coburn, Sara N Horst, Dawn B Beaulieu, Yash A Choksi, Mary Kay Washington, Amanda D Williams, Melissa A Fisher, Sandra S Zinkel, Richard M Peek, Keith T Wilson, Scott W Hiebert

Neurogastroenterology

• Original article: Sensory neuro-immune interactions differ between Irritable Bowel Syndrome subtypes (5 July, 2012)

  Patrick A Hughes, Andrea M Harrington, Joel Castro, Tobias Liebregts, Birgit Adam, Dallas J Grasby, Nicole J Isaacs, Lochana Maldeniya, Chris M Martin, Jenny Persson, Jane M Andrews, Gerald Holtmann, L Ashley Blackshaw, Stuart M Brierley
• Original article: Butyrate-induced colonic hypersensitivity is mediated by mitogen-activated protein kinase activation in rat dorsal root ganglia (24 July, 2012)

  Dabo Xu, Xiaoyin Wu, Gintautas Grabauskas, Chung Owyang

Pancreas

• Original article: Extrapancreatic necrosis without pancreatic parenchymal necrosis: a separate entity in necrotising pancreatitis? (7 July, 2012)

  Olaf J Bakker, Hjalmar van Santvoort, Marc G H Besselink, Marja A Boermeester, Casper van Eijck, Kees Dejong, Harry van Goor, Sijbrand Hofker, Usama Ahmed Ali, Hein G Gooszen, Thomas L Bollen, for the Dutch Pancreatitis Study Group
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  Gata6 is required for complete acinar differentiation and maintenance of the exocrine pancreas in adult mice

  (21 September, 2012)

  Paola Martinelli, Marta Cañamero, Natalia del Pozo, Francesc Madriles, Agustín Zapata, Francisco X Real
• Original article: Dietary antioxidants and the aetiology of pancreatic cancer: a cohort study using data from food diaries and biomarkers (23 July, 2012)

  Paul J R Banim, Robert Luben, Alison McTaggart, Ailsa Welch, Nicholas Wareham, Kay-Tee Khaw, Andrew R Hart

Hepatology

• Original article: Comparison of the most favoured methods for the diagnosis of hepatic encephalopathy in liver transplantation candidates (7 January, 2013)

  Annemarie Goldbecker, Karin Weissenborn, Golschan Hamidi Shahrezaei, Kambiz Afshar, Stefan Rümke, Hannelore Barg-Hock, Christian P Strassburg, Hartmut Hecker, Anita Blanka Tryc