Table of contents

Original articles

Oesophagus

• Original article: Efficacy and safety of lesogaberan in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a randomised controlled trial (23 June, 2012)

  Nicholas J Shaheen, Hans Denison, Karin Björck, Maria Karlsson, Debra G Silberg
• Original article: In vivo evaluation of acid-induced changes in oesophageal mucosa integrity and sensitivity in non-erosive reflux disease (21 June, 2012)

  Philip Woodland, Mohannad Al-Zinaty, Etsuro Yazaki, Daniel Sifrim

Helicobacter pylori

• Original article:

  Association between Helicobacter pylori and mortality in the NHANES III study

  (8 January, 2013)

  Yu Chen, Stephanie Segers, Martin J Blaser

Stomach

• Original article: Heterogeneity in mouse spasmolytic polypeptide-expressing metaplasia lineages identifies markers of metaplastic progression (7 July, 2012)

  Victoria G Weis, Josane F Sousa, Bonnie J LaFleur, Ki Taek Nam, Jared A Weis, Paul E Finke, Nadia A Ameen, James G Fox, James R Goldenring

Neurogastroenterology

• Original article: Natural capsaicinoids improve swallow response in older patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia (21 June, 2012)

  Laia Rofes, Viridiana Arreola, Alberto Martin, Pere Clavé

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Original article: A randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled study of granulocyte/monocyte apheresis for moderate to severe Crohn's disease (3 July, 2012)

  Bruce E Sands, Seymour Katz, Douglas C Wolf, Brian G Feagan, Tao Wang, Lisa-Marie Gustofson, Cindy Wong, Margaret K Vandervoort, Stephen Hanauer

Infective colitis

• Original article:

  The antimicrobial peptide cathelicidin modulates Clostridium difficile-associated colitis and toxin A-mediated enteritis in mice

  (3 July, 2012)

  Tressia C Hing, Samantha Ho, David Q Shih, Ryan Ichikawa, Michelle Cheng, Jeremy Chen, Xinhua Chen, Ivy Law, Robert Najarian, Ciaran P Kelly, Richard L Gallo, Stephan R Targan, Charalabos Pothoulakis, Hon Wai Koon

Gut microbiota

• Original article: The gut microbiota elicits a profound metabolic reorientation in the mouse jejunal mucosa during conventionalisation (21 June, 2012)

  Sahar El Aidy, Claire A Merrifield, Muriel Derrien, Peter van Baarlen, Guido Hooiveld, Florence Levenez, Joel Doré, Jan Dekker, Elaine Holmes, Sandrine P Claus, Dirk-Jan Reijngoud, Michiel Kleerebezem

Colon

• Original article: MicroRNA-200c modulates epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in human colorectal cancer metastasis (26 June, 2012)

  Keun Hur, Yuji Toiyama, Masanobu Takahashi, Francesc Balaguer, Takeshi Nagasaka, Junichi Koike, Hiromichi Hemmi, Minoru Koi, C Richard Boland, Ajay Goel

Pancreas

• Original article: Treatment of pancreatic fibrosis with siRNA against a collagen-specific chaperone in vitamin A-coupled liposomes (20 November, 2012) Free

  Hirotoshi Ishiwatari, Yasushi Sato, Kazuyuki Murase, Akihiro Yoneda, Ryosuke Fujita, Hiroki Nishita, Naoko Kubo Birukawa, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Tsutomu Sato, Koji Miyanishi, Rishu Takimoto, Masayoshi Kobune, Shigenori Ota, Yasutoshi Kimura, Koichi Hirata, Junji Kato, Yoshiro Niitsu

Hepatology

• Original article:

  Hepatitis C virus kinetics by administration of pegylated interferon-α in human and chimeric mice carrying human hepatocytes with variants of the IL28B gene

  (7 November, 2012)

  Tsunamasa Watanabe, Fuminaka Sugauchi, Yasuhito Tanaka, Kentaro Matsuura, Hiroshi Yatsuhashi, Shuko Murakami, Sayuki Iijima, Etsuko Iio, Masaya Sugiyama, Takashi Shimada, Masakazu Kakuni, Michinori Kohara, Masashi Mizokami
• Original article: Cumulative viral evolutionary changes in chronic hepatitis B virus infection precedes hepatitis B e antigen seroconversion (15 December, 2012)

  Yan Cheng, Stephane Guindon, Allen Rodrigo, Lin Ying Wee, Masafumi Inoue, Alex J V Thompson, Stephen Locarnini, Seng Gee Lim
• Original article: Epigenetic modification of liver mitochondrial DNA is associated with histological severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (9 August, 2012)

  Carlos Jose Pirola, Tomas Fernández Gianotti, Adriana Laura Burgueño, Manuel Rey-Funes, Cesar Fabian Loidl, Pablo Mallardi, Julio San Martino, Gustavo Osvaldo Castaño, S Sookoian