Table of contents

Original articles

Oesophagus

• Original article: LncRNA profile study reveals a three-lncRNA signature associated with the survival of patients with oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (12 February, 2014)

  Jiagen Li, Zhaoli Chen, Liqing Tian, Chengcheng Zhou, Max Yifan He, Yibo Gao, Suya Wang, Fang Zhou, Susheng Shi, Xiaoli Feng, Nan Sun, Ziyuan Liu, Geir Skogerboe, Jingsi Dong, Ran Yao, Yuda Zhao, Jian Sun, Baihua Zhang, Yue Yu, Xuejiao Shi, Mei Luo, Kang Shao, Ning Li, Bin Qiu, Fengwei Tan, Runsheng Chen, Jie He

Stomach

• Original article: Cell lineage distribution atlas of the human stomach reveals heterogeneous gland populations in the gastric antrum (31 January, 2014) Free

  Eunyoung Choi, Joseph T Roland, Brittney J Barlow, Ryan O'Neal, Amy E Rich, Ki Taek Nam, Chanjuan Shi, James R Goldenring

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Postinduction serum infliximab trough level and decrease of C-reactive protein level are associated with durable sustained response to infliximab: a retrospective analysis of the ACCENT I trial (28 January, 2014)

  Freddy Cornillie, Stephen B Hanauer, Robert H Diamond, Jianping Wang, Kezhen L Tang, Zhenhua Xu, Paul Rutgeerts, Séverine Vermeire
• Original article: IL-13Rα2-bearing, type II NKT cells reactive to sulfatide self-antigen populate the mucosa of ulcerative colitis (10 February, 2014)

  Ivan J Fuss, Bharat Joshi, Zhiqiong Yang, Heba Degheidy, Stefan Fichtner-Feigl, Heitor de Souza, Florian Rieder, Franco Scaldaferri, Anja Schirbel, Melania Scarpa, Gail West, Chuli Yi, Lili Xu, Pamela Leland, Michael Yao, Peter Mannon, Raj K Puri, Claudio Fiocchi, Warren Strober

Neurogastroenterology

• Original article: Faecal microbiota composition and host–microbe cross-talk following gastroenteritis and in postinfectious irritable bowel syndrome (5 December, 2013)

  Jonna Jalanka-Tuovinen, Jarkko Salojärvi, Anne Salonen, Outi Immonen, Klara Garsed, Fiona M Kelly, Abed Zaitoun, Airi Palva, Robin C Spiller, Willem M de Vos

Endoscopy

• Original article: An analysis of the learning curve to achieve competency at colonoscopy using the JETS database (27 January, 2014)

  Stephen Thomas Ward, Mohammed A Mohammed, Robert Walt, Roland Valori, Tariq Ismail, Paul Dunckley

Colon

• Original article: The preventive effects of low-dose enteric-coated aspirin tablets on the development of colorectal tumours in Asian patients: a randomised trial (31 January, 2014)

  Hideki Ishikawa, Michihiro Mutoh, Sadao Suzuki, Shinkan Tokudome, Yoshihisa Saida, Takashi Abe, Shozo Okamura, Masahiro Tajika, Takashi Joh, Shinji Tanaka, Shin-ei Kudo, Takahisa Matsuda, Masaki Iimuro, Tomomi Yukawa, Tetsuji Takayama, Yasushi Sato, Kyowon Lee, Shinji Kitamura, Motowo Mizuno, Yasushi Sano, Nobuhisa Gondo, Kenji Sugimoto, Masato Kusunoki, Chiho Goto, Nariaki Matsuura, Toshiyuki Sakai, Keiji Wakabayashi
• Original article: Anticolorectal cancer activity of the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid eicosapentaenoic acid (27 January, 2014)

  Andrew J Cockbain, Milene Volpato, Amanda D Race, Alessandra Munarini, Chiara Fazio, Andrea Belluzzi, Paul M Loadman, Giles J Toogood, Mark A Hull

Pancreas

• Original article: Targeted depletion of an MDSC subset unmasks pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma to adaptive immunity (20 February, 2014)

  Ingunn M Stromnes, J Scott Brockenbrough, Kamel Izeradjene, Markus A Carlson, Carlos Cuevas, Randi M Simmons, Philip D Greenberg, Sunil R Hingorani

Hepatology

• Original article: CCL20 mediates lipopolysaccharide induced liver injury and is a potential driver of inflammation and fibrosis in alcoholic hepatitis (10 January, 2014)

  Silvia Affò, Oriol Morales-Ibanez, Daniel Rodrigo-Torres, José Altamirano, Delia Blaya, Dianne H Dapito, Cristina Millán, Mar Coll, Jorge M Caviglia, Vicente Arroyo, Juan Caballería, Robert F Schwabe, Pere Ginès, Ramón Bataller, Pau Sancho-Bru
• Original article: Cell cycle-related kinase mediates viral-host signalling to promote hepatitis B virus-associated hepatocarcinogenesis (17 January, 2014)

  Zhuo Yu, Yue-Qiu Gao, Hai Feng, Ying-Ying Lee, May S Li, Yuan Tian, Minnie Y Y Go, Dae-Yeul Yu, Yue-Sun Cheung, Paul B S Lai, Jun Yu, Vincent W S Wong, Joseph J Y Sung, Henry L Y Chan, Alfred S L Cheng
• Original article: Osteopontin induces ductular reaction contributing to liver fibrosis (4 February, 2014)

  Xiaodong Wang, Aritz Lopategi, Xiaodong Ge, Yongke Lu, Naoto Kitamura, Raquel Urtasun, Tung-Ming Leung, Maria Isabel Fiel, Natalia Nieto