Table of contents

Original articles

Oesophagus

• Original article: In oesophageal squamous cells exposed to acidic bile salt medium, omeprazole inhibits IL-8 expression through effects on nuclear factor-κB and activator protein-1 (18 September, 2013)

  Xiaofang Huo, Xi Zhang, Chunhua Yu, Qiuyang Zhang, Edaire Cheng, David H Wang, Thai H Pham, Stuart J Spechler, Rhonda F Souza
• Original article: Waist belt and central obesity cause partial hiatus hernia and short-segment acid reflux in asymptomatic volunteers (24 September, 2013)

  Yeong Yeh Lee, Angela A Wirz, James G H Whiting, Elaine V Robertson, Donald Smith, Alexander Weir, Andrew W Kelman, Mohammad H Derakhshan, Kenneth E L McColl

Stomach

• Original article: Multinational, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, prospective study of esomeprazole in the prevention of recurrent peptic ulcer in low-dose acetylsalicylic acid users: the LAVENDER study (10 December, 2013)

  Kentaro Sugano, Myung-Gyu Choi, Jaw-Town Lin, Shinya Goto, Yasushi Okada, Yoshikazu Kinoshita, Hiroto Miwa, Chern-En Chiang, Tsutomu Chiba, Masatsugu Hori, Yasushi Fukushima, Hyun-Soo Kim, Chi-Yang Chang, Masataka Date, on behalf of the LAVENDER Study Group

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Original article: AIEC pathobiont instigates chronic colitis in susceptible hosts by altering microbiota composition (29 July, 2013) Free

  Benoit Chassaing, Omry Koren, Frederic A Carvalho, Ruth E Ley, Andrew T Gewirtz
• Original article: Genomic ATG16L1 risk allele-restricted Paneth cell ER stress in quiescent Crohn's disease (20 August, 2013)

  J Jasper Deuring, Gwenny M Fuhler, Sergey R Konstantinov, Maikel P Peppelenbosch, Ernst J Kuipers, Colin de Haar, C Janneke van der Woude
• Original article: Development and validation of a rapid, generic measure of disease control from the patient's perspective: the IBD-Control questionnaire (9 October, 2013)

  Keith Bodger, Clare Ormerod, Daniela Shackcloth, Melanie Harrison, on behalf of the IBD Control Collaborative

Neurogastroenterology

• Original article:

  Genetic variants in CDC42 and NXPH1 as susceptibility factors for constipation and diarrhoea predominant irritable bowel syndrome

  (16 September, 2013)

  Mira M Wouters, Diether Lambrechts, Michael Knapp, Isabelle Cleynen, Peter Whorwell, Lars Agréus, Aldona Dlugosz, Peter Thelin Schmidt, Jonas Halfvarson, Magnus Simrén, Bodil Ohlsson, Pontus Karling, Sander Van Wanrooy, Stéphanie Mondelaers, Severine Vermeire, Greger Lindberg, Robin Spiller, George Dukes, Mauro D'Amato, Guy Boeckxstaens

Endoscopy

• Original article: A score to estimate the likelihood of detecting advanced colorectal neoplasia at colonoscopy (2 January, 2014)

  Michal F Kaminski, Marcin Polkowski, Ewa Kraszewska, Maciej Rupinski, Eugeniusz Butruk, Jaroslaw Regula

Colon

• Original article: Chloride channel inhibition by a red wine extract and a synthetic small molecule prevents rotaviral secretory diarrhoea in neonatal mice (19 September, 2013)

  Eun-A Ko, Byung-Ju Jin, Wan Namkung, Tonghui Ma, Jay R Thiagarajah, A S Verkman
• Original article: A validated tool to predict colorectal neoplasia and inform screening choice for asymptomatic subjects (17 September, 2013)

  Martin C S Wong, Thomas Y T Lam, Kelvin K F Tsoi, Hoyee W Hirai, Victor C W Chan, Jessica Y L Ching, Francis K L Chan, Joseph J Y Sung

Hepatology

• Original article: Turmeric curcumin inhibits entry of all hepatitis C virus genotypes into human liver cells (31 July, 2013)

  Anggakusuma, Che C Colpitts, Luis M Schang, Heni Rachmawati, Anne Frentzen, Stephanie Pfaender, Patrick Behrendt, Richard J P Brown, Dorothea Bankwitz, Joerg Steinmann, Michael Ott, Philip Meuleman, Charles M Rice, Alexander Ploss, Thomas Pietschmann, Eike Steinmann
• Original article: Safety and on-treatment efficacy of telaprevir: the early access programme for patients with advanced hepatitis C (7 November, 2013)

  M Colombo, I Fernández, D Abdurakhmanov, P A Ferreira, S I Strasser, P Urbanek, C Moreno, A Streinu-Cercel, A Verheyen, W Iraqi, R DeMasi, A Hill, J M Läuffer, I Lonjon-Domanec, H Wedemeyer
• Original article: Jnk1 in murine hepatic stellate cells is a crucial mediator of liver fibrogenesis (13 September, 2013)

  Gang Zhao, Maximilian Hatting, Yulia A. Nevzorova, Jin Peng, Wei Hu, Mark V Boekschoten, Tania Roskams, Michael Muller, Nikolaus Gassler, Christian Liedtke, Roger J Davis, Francisco Javier Cubero, Christian Trautwein