Table of contents

Original articles

Helicobacter pylori

• Original article: CagA mediates epigenetic regulation to attenuate let-7 expression in Helicobacter pylori-related carcinogenesis (30 August, 2012)

  Yoshito Hayashi, Masahiko Tsujii, Jun Wang, Jumpei Kondo, Tomofumi Akasaka, Ying Jin, Wei Li, Toru Nakamura, Tsutomu Nishida, Hideki Iijima, Shingo Tsuji, Sunao Kawano, Norio Hayashi, Tetsuo Takehara

Endoscopy

• Original article: Surface maturation scoring for oesophageal squamous intraepithelial neoplasia: a novel diagnostic approach inspired by first endomicroscopic 3-dimensional reconstruction (30 August, 2012)

  Ming Li, Xiu-Li Zuo, Tao Yu, Xiao-Meng Gu, Cheng-Jun Zhou, Zhen Li, Hong Liu, Rui Ji, Yan-Yan Dong, Chang-Qing Li, Yan-Qing Li

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Original article: Genetic factors conferring an increased susceptibility to develop Crohn's disease also influence disease phenotype: results from the IBDchip European Project (21 December, 2012)

  Isabelle Cleynen, Juan R González, Carolina Figueroa, Andre Franke, Dermot McGovern, Martin Bortlík, Bart J A Crusius, Maurizio Vecchi, Marta Artieda, Magdalena Szczypiorska, Johannes Bethge, David Arteta, Edgar Ayala, Silvio Danese, Ruud A van Hogezand, Julian Panés, Salvador Amado Peña, Milan Lukas, Derek P Jewell, Stefan Schreiber, Severine Vermeire, Miquel Sans
• Original article: Diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance colonography for the evaluation of disease activity and severity in ulcerative colitis: a prospective study (30 August, 2012)

  Ingrid Ordás, Jordi Rimola, Orlando García-Bosch, Sonia Rodríguez, Marta Gallego, María Josefina Etchevers, María Pellisé, Faust Feu, Begoña González-Suárez, Carmen Ayuso, Elena Ricart, Julián Panés

Neurogastroenterology

• Original article: A multidimensional model of psychobiological interactions in functional dyspepsia: a structural equation modelling approach (23 August, 2012)

  Michael P Jones, Eline Coppens, Rita Vos, Lieselot Holvoet, Patrick Luyten, Jan Tack, Lukas Van Oudenhove
• Original article: Inhibition of spleen tyrosine kinase as treatment of postoperative ileus (13 December, 2012)

  Sjoerd H W van Bree, Pedro Julian Gomez-Pinilla, Fleur Suzanne van de Bovenkamp, Martina Di Giovangiulio, Giovanna Farro, Andrea Nemethova, Cathy Cailotto, Wouter J de Jonge, Kevin Lee, Cesar Ramirez-Molina, Dave Lugo, Michael J Skynner, Guy E E Boeckxstaens, Gianluca Matteoli

Gut microbiota

• Original article: Gut microbiota disturbance during antibiotic therapy: a multi-omic approach (12 December, 2012)

  Ana Elena Pérez-Cobas, María José Gosalbes, Anette Friedrichs, Henrik Knecht, Alejandro Artacho, Kathleen Eismann, Wolfgang Otto, David Rojo, Rafael Bargiela, Martin von Bergen, Sven C Neulinger, Carolin Däumer, Femke-Anouska Heinsen, Amparo Latorre, Coral Barbas, Jana Seifert, Vitor Martins dos Santos, Stephan J Ott, Manuel Ferrer, Andrés Moya

Pancreas

• Original article: Comprehensive screening of chymotrypsin C (CTRC) gene in tropical calcific pancreatitis identifies novel variants (12 May, 2012)

  Sumit Paliwal, Seema Bhaskar, K Radha Mani, D Nageshwar Reddy, G Venkat Rao, Shivaram Prasad Singh, Varghese Thomas, Giriraj Ratan Chandak
• Original article: Treatment of relapsing autoimmune pancreatitis with immunomodulators and rituximab: the Mayo Clinic experience (30 August, 2012)

  Phil A Hart, Mark D Topazian, Thomas E Witzig, Jonathan E Clain, Ferga C Gleeson, Robin R Klebig, Michael J Levy, Randall K Pearson, Bret T Petersen, Thomas C Smyrk, Aravind Sugumar, Naoki Takahashi, Santhi S Vege, Suresh T Chari
• Comprehensive functional analysis of chymotrypsin C (CTRC) variants reveals distinct loss-of-function mechanisms associated with pancreatitis risk (1 September, 2012)

  Sebastian Beer, Jiayi Zhou, András Szabó, Steven Keiles, Giriraj Ratan Chandak, Heiko Witt, Miklós Sahin-Tóth

Hepatology

• Original article: Whole-body substrate metabolism is associated with disease severity in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (17 October, 2012)

  Ilaria Croci, Nuala M Byrne, Stéphane Choquette, Andrew P Hills, Veronique S Chachay, Andrew D Clouston, Trisha M O'Moore-Sullivan, Graeme A Macdonald, Johannes B Prins, Ingrid J Hickman
• Original article: Carvedilol for primary prophylaxis of variceal bleeding in cirrhotic patients with haemodynamic non-response to propranolol (18 December, 2012) Free

  Thomas Reiberger, Gregor Ulbrich, Arnulf Ferlitsch, Berit Anna Payer, Philipp Schwabl, Matthias Pinter, Birgit B Heinisch, Michael Trauner, Ludwig Kramer, Markus Peck-Radosavljevic, Vienna Hepatic Hemodynamic Lab