Table of contents

Original articles

Oesophagus

• Original article: The stem cell organisation, and the proliferative and gene expression profile of Barrett's epithelium, replicates pyloric-type gastric glands (18 February, 2014)

  Danielle L Lavery, Anna M Nicholson, Richard Poulsom, Rosemary Jeffery, Alia Hussain, Laura J Gay, Janusz A Jankowski, Sebastian S Zeki, Hugh Barr, Rebecca Harrison, James Going, Sritharan Kadirkamanathan, Peter Davis, Timothy Underwood, Marco R Novelli, Manuel Rodriguez–Justo, Neil Shepherd, Marnix Jansen, Nicholas A Wright, Stuart A C McDonald

Stomach

• Original article: Double oral esomeprazole after a 3-day intravenous esomeprazole infusion reduces recurrent peptic ulcer bleeding in high-risk patients: a randomised controlled study (21 March, 2014)

  Hsiu-Chi Cheng, Chung-Tai Wu, Wei-Lun Chang, Wei-Chun Cheng, Wei-Ying Chen, Bor-Shyang Sheu

Neurogastroenterology

• Original article: Histamine H4 and H1 receptors contribute to postinflammatory visceral hypersensitivity (21 February, 2014)

  Annemie Deiteren, Joris G De Man, Nathalie E Ruyssers, Tom G Moreels, Paul A Pelckmans, Benedicte Y De Winter

Mucosal immunity

• Original article: Prolactin mediates psychological stress-induced dysfunction of regulatory T cells to facilitate intestinal inflammation (18 February, 2014)

  Wei Wu, Mingming Sun, Huan-Ping Zhang, Tengfei Chen, Ruijin Wu, Changqin Liu, Gui Yang, Xiao-Rui Geng, Bai-Sui Feng, Zhigang Liu, Zhanju Liu, Ping-Chang Yang

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Original article:

  α-Haemolysin of Escherichia coli in IBD: a potentiator of inflammatory activity in the colon

  (17 February, 2014)

  Roland Bücker, Emanuel Schulz, Dorothee Günzel, Christian Bojarski, In-Fah M Lee, Lena J John, Stephanie Wiegand, Traute Janßen, Lothar H Wieler, Ulrich Dobrindt, Lothar Beutin, Christa Ewers, Michael Fromm, Britta Siegmund, Hanno Troeger, Jörg-Dieter Schulzke
• Original article: Involvement of interleukin-17A-induced expression of heat shock protein 47 in intestinal fibrosis in Crohn's disease (17 February, 2014)

  Yusuke Honzawa, Hiroshi Nakase, Masahiro Shiokawa, Takuya Yoshino, Hirotsugu Imaeda, Minoru Matsuura, Yuzo Kodama, Hiroki Ikeuchi, Akira Andoh, Yoshiharu Sakai, Kazuhiro Nagata, Tsutomu Chiba

Gut microbiota

• Original article: Exercise and associated dietary extremes impact on gut microbial diversity (9 June, 2014) Free

  Siobhan F Clarke, Eileen F Murphy, Orla O'Sullivan, Alice J Lucey, Margaret Humphreys, Aileen Hogan, Paula Hayes, Maeve O'Reilly, Ian B Jeffery, Ruth Wood-Martin, David M Kerins, Eamonn Quigley, R Paul Ross, Paul W O'Toole, Michael G Molloy, Eanna Falvey, Fergus Shanahan, Paul D Cotter
• Original article: Type I interferon signalling in the intestinal epithelium affects Paneth cells, microbial ecology and epithelial regeneration (20 February, 2014)

  Markus Tschurtschenthaler, Jun Wang, Cornelia Fricke, Teresa M J Fritz, Lukas Niederreiter, Timon E Adolph, Edina Sarcevic, Sven Künzel, Felix A Offner, Ulrich Kalinke, John F Baines, Herbert Tilg, Arthur Kaser

Colon

• Original article: Bacterial genotoxin colibactin promotes colon tumour growth by inducing a senescence-associated secretory phenotype (21 March, 2014)

  Antony Cougnoux, Guillaume Dalmasso, Ruben Martinez, Emmanuel Buc, Julien Delmas, Lucie Gibold, Pierre Sauvanet, Claude Darcha, Pierre Déchelotte, Mathilde Bonnet, Denis Pezet, Harald Wodrich, Arlette Darfeuille-Michaud, Richard Bonnet

Hepatology

• Original article: Patients with chronic hepatitis B treated with oral antiviral therapy retain a higher risk for HCC compared with patients with inactive stage disease (10 March, 2014)

  Ju-Yeon Cho, Yong-Han Paik, Won Sohn, Hyun Chin Cho, Geum-Youn Gwak, Moon Seok Choi, Joon Hyeok Lee, Kwang Cheol Koh, Seung Woon Paik, Byung Chul Yoo
• Original article: Hypoxia induced downregulation of hepcidin is mediated by platelet derived growth factor BB (5 March, 2014)

  Thomas Sonnweber, David Nachbaur, Andrea Schroll, Manfred Nairz, Markus Seifert, Egon Demetz, David Haschka, Anna-Maria Mitterstiller, Axel Kleinsasser, Martin Burtscher, Susanne Trübsbach, Anthony T Murphy, Victor Wroblewski, Derrick R Witcher, Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka, Chiara Vecchi, Martina U Muckenthaler, Antonello Pietrangelo, Igor Theurl, Günter Weiss
• Original article: CCL2-dependent infiltrating macrophages promote angiogenesis in progressive liver fibrosis (21 February, 2014)

  Josef Ehling, Matthias Bartneck, Xiao Wei, Felix Gremse, Viktor Fech, Diana Möckel, Christer Baeck, Kanishka Hittatiya, Dirk Eulberg, Tom Luedde, Fabian Kiessling, Christian Trautwein, Twan Lammers, Frank Tacke