Table of contents

Original articles

Oesophagus

• Original article: Nrf2 deficiency impairs the barrier function of mouse oesophageal epithelium (15 May, 2013)

  Hao Chen, Yuhui Hu, Yu Fang, Zorka Djukic, Masayuki Yamamoto, Nicholas J Shaheen, Roy C Orlando, Xiaoxin Chen
• Original article: Impact of regurgitation on health-related quality of life in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease before and after short-term potent acid suppression therapy (5 July, 2013)

  Peter J Kahrilas, Andreas Jonsson, Hans Denison, Börje Wernersson, Nesta Hughes, Colin W Howden

Gut microbiota

• Original article:

  An increase in the Akkermansia spp. population induced by metformin treatment improves glucose homeostasis in diet-induced obese mice

  (26 June, 2013)

  Na-Ri Shin, June-Chul Lee, Hae-Youn Lee, Min-Soo Kim, Tae Woong Whon, Myung-Shik Lee, Jin-Woo Bae

Enteric infections

• Original article:

  Shanghai fever: a distinct Pseudomonas aeruginosa enteric disease

  (13 August, 2013)

  Chih-Hsien Chuang, Yi-Hsin Wang, Hsin-Ju Chang, Hsiu-Ling Chen, Yhu-Chering Huang, Tzou-Yien Lin, Egon A Ozer, Jonathan P Allen, Alan R Hauser, Cheng-Hsun Chiu

Neurogastroenterology

• Original article: Functional bowel symptoms in quiescent inflammatory bowel diseases: role of epithelial barrier disruption and low-grade inflammation (22 July, 2013)

  M Vivinus-Nébot, G Frin-Mathy, H Bzioueche, R Dainese, G Bernard, R Anty, J Filippi, M C Saint-Paul, M K Tulic, V Verhasselt, X Hébuterne, T Piche
• Original article: Characterisation of faecal protease activity in irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea: origin and effect of gut transit (2 August, 2013)

  David Tooth, Klara Garsed, Gulzar Singh, Luca Marciani, Ching Lam, Imogen Fordham, Annie Fields, Rawinder Banwait, Melanie Lingaya, Robert Layfield, Maggie Hastings, Peter Whorwell, Robin Spiller

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Original article:

  Colonic mucosa-associated diffusely adherent afaC+ Escherichia coli expressing lpfA and pks are increased in inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer

  (11 July, 2013)

  Maelle Prorok-Hamon, Melissa K Friswell, Abdullah Alswied, Carol L Roberts, Fei Song, Paul K Flanagan, Paul Knight, Caroline Codling, Julian R Marchesi, Craig Winstanley, Neil Hall, Jonathan M Rhodes, Barry J Campbell
• Original article: Mortality and causes of death in Crohn's disease: results from 20 years of follow-up in the IBSEN study (6 June, 2013)

  Øistein Hovde, Iril Kempski-Monstad, Milada Cvancarova Småstuen, Inger Camilla Solberg, Magne Henriksen, Jørgen Jahnsen, Njål Stray, Bjørn A Moum
• Original article: Long-term intake of dietary fat and risk of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease (4 July, 2013)

  Ashwin N Ananthakrishnan, Hamed Khalili, Gauree G Konijeti, Leslie M Higuchi, Punyanganie de Silva, Charles S Fuchs, Walter C Willett, James M Richter, Andrew T Chan

Endoscopy

• Original article: Comparison of detection and miss rates of narrow band imaging, flexible spectral imaging chromoendoscopy and white light at screening colonoscopy: a randomised controlled back-to-back study (12 July, 2013)

  Su Jin Chung, Donghee Kim, Ji Hyun Song, Hae Yeon Kang, Goh Eun Chung, Jeongmin Choi, Young Sun Kim, Min Jung Park, Joo Sung Kim

Colon

• Original article:

  Investigation of the atypical FBXW7 mutation spectrum in human tumours by conditional expression of a heterozygous propellor tip missense allele in the mouse intestines

  (15 May, 2013)

  Hayley Davis, Annabelle Lewis, Axel Behrens, Ian Tomlinson
• Original article: Pleiotropic effects of genetic risk variants for other cancers on colorectal cancer risk: PAGE, GECCO and CCFR consortia (9 August, 2013)

  Iona Cheng, Jonathan M Kocarnik, Logan Dumitrescu, Noralane M Lindor, Jenny Chang-Claude, Christy L Avery, Christian P Caberto, Shelly-Ann Love, Martha L Slattery, Andrew T Chan, John A Baron, Lucia A Hindorff, Sungshim Lani Park, Fredrick R Schumacher, Michael Hoffmeister, Peter Kraft, Anne M Butler, David J Duggan, Lifang Hou, Chris S Carlson, Kristine R Monroe, Yi Lin, Cara L Carty, Sue Mann, Jing Ma, Edward L Giovannucci, Charles S Fuchs, Polly A Newcomb, Mark A Jenkins, John L Hopper, Robert W Haile, David V Conti, Peter T Campbell, John D Potter, Bette J Caan, Robert E Schoen, Richard B Hayes, Stephen J Chanock, Sonja I Berndt, Sebastien Küry, Stephane Bézieau, Jose Luis Ambite, Gowri Kumaraguruparan, Danielle M Richardson, Robert J Goodloe, Holli H Dilks, Paxton Baker, Brent W Zanke, Mathieu Lemire, Steven Gallinger, Li Hsu, Shuo Jiao, Tabitha A Harrison, Daniela Seminara, Christopher A Haiman, Charles Kooperberg, Lynne R Wilkens, Carolyn M Hutter, Emily White, Dana C Crawford, Gerardo Heiss, Thomas J Hudson, Hermann Brenner, William S Bush, Graham Casey, Loïc Le Marchand, Ulrike Peters
• Original article: Farnesoid X receptor agonists attenuate colonic epithelial secretory function and prevent experimental diarrhoea in vivo (5 August, 2013)

  Magdalena S Mroz, Niamh Keating, Joseph B Ward, Rafiquel Sarker, Silvie Amu, Gabriella Aviello, Mark Donowitz, Padraic G Fallon, Stephen J Keely

Pancreas

• Original article: Newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus after acute pancreatitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis (8 August, 2013)

  Stephanie L M Das, Primal P Singh, Anthony R J Phillips, Rinki Murphy, John A Windsor, Maxim S Petrov

Hepatology

• Original article: A disrupted RNA editing balance mediated by ADARs (Adenosine DeAminases that act on RNA) in human hepatocellular carcinoma (13 June, 2013)

  Tim Hon Man Chan, Chi Ho Lin, Lihua Qi, Jing Fei, Yan Li, Kol Jia Yong, Ming Liu, Yangyang Song, Raymond Kwok Kei Chow, Vanessa Hui En Ng, Yun-Fei Yuan, Daniel G Tenen, Xin-Yuan Guan, Leilei Chen