Gastroenterology
ISSN: 0016-5085
 

Copyright Assignment, Authorship Responsibility, Financial Disclosure, Institutional Review Board/Animal Care Committee Approval, and Sponsorship • MISCELLANEOUS
 

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This Month in Gastroenterology  • DISCUSSION
 

New Rotavirus Vaccines Safe and Effective in Large Clinical Trials  • ARTICLE
Les Lang
 

Pledges of $1.9 Billion at Avian Influenza Conference  • ARTICLE
Les Lang
 

Robert Sandler Elected AGA Vice President  • ARTICLE
Les Lang

 

Gastrointestinal Surgery for Obesity: A Question of Life and Death and Expertise  • DISCUSSION
Samuel Klein
 

Image of the Month: David M. Warshauer, Section Editor  • REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
D.R. Gaya, A.K. Foulis and A.J. Morris
 

Peginterferon Alfa-2b Therapy in Acute Hepatitis C: Impact of Onset of Therapy on Sustained Virologic Response  • ARTICLE
Sanaa M. Kamal, Amr E. Fouly, Refaat R. Kamel, Bridgette Hockenjos, Ahmed Al Tawil, Khalifa E. Khalifa, Qi He, Margaret J. Koziel, Khairy M. El Naggar, Jens Rasenack and Nezam H. Afdhal
 

Obesity: A Challenge to Esophagogastric Junction Integrity  • ARTICLE
John E. Pandolfino, Hashem B. El–Serag, Qing Zhang, Nimeesh Shah, Sudip K. Ghosh and Peter J. Kahrilas
 

Predictors of Crohn’s Disease  • ARTICLE
Laurent Beaugerie, Philippe Seksik, Isabelle Nion–Larmurier, Jean–Pierre Gendre and Jacques Cosnes
 

Biofeedback Is Superior to Laxatives for Normal Transit Constipation Due to Pelvic Floor Dyssynergia  • ARTICLE
Giuseppe Chiarioni, William E. Whitehead, Vincenzo Pezza, Antonio Morelli and Gabrio Bassotti
 

Decrease in Mortality in Lynch Syndrome Families Because of Surveillance  • ARTICLE
Andrea E. de Jong, Yvonne M.C. Hendriks, Jan H. Kleibeuker, Sybrand Y. de Boer, Annemieke Cats, Gerrit Griffioen, Fokko M. Nagengast, Frits G. Nelis, Matti A. Rookus and Hans F.A. Vasen
 

The Aer-O-Scope: Proof of Concept of a Pneumatic, Skill-Independent, Self-Propelling, Self-Navigating Colonoscope  • ARTICLE
Boris Vucelic, Douglas Rex, Roland Pulanic, Jorge Pfefer, Irena Hrstic, Bernard Levin, Zamir Halpern and Nadir Arber
 

Predicting Cirrhosis Risk Based on the Level of Circulating Hepatitis B Viral Load  • ARTICLE
Uchenna H. Iloeje, Hwai–I. Yang, Jun Su, Chin–Lan Jen, San–Lin You, Chien–Jen Chen and The Risk Evaluation of Viral Load Elevation and Associated Liver Disease/Cancer-In HBV (the REVEAL-HBV) Study Group
 

Measurement of Serum Acetaminophen–Protein Adducts in Patients With Acute Liver Failure  • ARTICLE
Timothy J. Davern II, Laura P. James, Jack A. Hinson, Julie Polson, Anne M. Larson, Robert J. Fontana, Ezmina Lalani, Santiago Munoz, A. Obaid Shakil, William M. Lee and The Acute Liver Failure Study Group
 

HLA-DRB1 Donor-Recipient Mismatch Affects the Outcome of Hepatitis C Disease Recurrence After Liver Transplantation  • ARTICLE
Luca Saverio Belli, Patrizia Burra, Francesca Poli, Alberto Battista Alberti, Enrico Silini, Claudio Zavaglia, Stefano Fagiuoli, Daniela Prando, Alejandro Espadas de Arias, Sara Boninsegna et al.
 

Molecular Tracing of the Global Hepatitis C Virus Epidemic Predicts Regional Patterns of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Mortality  • ARTICLE
Yasuhito Tanaka, Fuat Kurbanov, Shuhei Mano, Etsuro Orito, Victor Vargas, Juan I. Esteban, Man–Fung Yuen, Ching–Lung Lai, Anna Kramvis, Michael C. Kew et al.
 

Ito of Ito’s Cells  • PERSONAL REPORT
William Haubrich
 

Excellent Long-Term Survival in Patients With Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and Biochemical Response to Ursodeoxycholic Acid  • ARTICLE
Albert Parés, Llorenç Caballería and Juan Rodés
 

Antisense Inhibition of Entamoeba histolytica Cysteine Proteases Inhibits Colonic Mucus Degradation  • ARTICLE
Darcym Moncada, Kathy Keller, Serge Ankri, David Mirelman and Kris Chadee
 

Probiotics and Commensals Reverse TNF-α– and IFN-γ–Induced Dysfunction in Human Intestinal Epithelial Cells  • ARTICLE
Silvia Resta–Lenert and Kim E. Barrett
 

All-Trans Retinoic Acid Induces XAF1 Expression Through an Interferon Regulatory Factor-1 Element in Colon Cancer  • ARTICLE
Jide Wang, Ying Peng, Yun Wei Sun, Hua He, Senlin Zhu, Xiaomeng An, Ming Li, Marie C.M. Lin, Bing Zou, Harry Hua–Xiang Xia et al.
 

Reduced Stem Cell Factor Links Smooth Myopathy and Loss of Interstitial Cells of Cajal in Murine Diabetic Gastroparesis  • ARTICLE
Viktor J. Horváth, Harsha Vittal, Andrea Lörincz, Hui Chen, Graça Almeida–Porada, Doug Redelman and Tamás Ördög
 

Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Augments Peristalsis by Augmenting 5-HT and Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Release  • ARTICLE
John R. Grider, Barbara E. Piland, Melisa A. Gulick and Li Ya Qiao
 

Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters Cause Pancreatic Calcium Toxicity via Inositol Trisphosphate Receptors and Loss of ATP Synthesis  • ARTICLE
David N. Criddle, John Murphy, Gregorio Fistetto, Stephanie Barrow, Alexei V. Tepikin, John P. Neoptolemos, Robert Sutton and Ole H. Petersen
 

Src Homology 3 Domain of Hepatitis C Virus NS5A Protein Interacts With Bin1 and Is Important for Apoptosis and Infectivity  • ARTICLE
Santosh K. Nanda, David Herion and T. Jake Liang
 

Kupffer Cells Abrogate Cholestatic Liver Injury in Mice  • ARTICLE
Stephan Gehring, Elizabeth M. Dickson, Maryann E. San Martin, Nico van Rooijen, Elaine F. Papa, Mark W. Harty, Thomas F. Tracy, JR and Stephen H. Gregory
 

Hepatitis B Virus Replication Is Regulated by the Acetylation Status of Hepatitis B Virus cccDNA-Bound H3 and H4 Histones  • ARTICLE
Teresa Pollicino, Laura Belloni, Giuseppina Raffa, Natalia Pediconi, Giovanni Squadrito, Giovanni Raimondo and Massimo Levrero
 

Defective RhoA/Rho-Kinase Signaling Contributes to Vascular Hypocontractility and Vasodilation in Cirrhotic Rats  • ARTICLE
Martin Hennenberg, Erwin Biecker, Jonel Trebicka, Kerstin Jochem, Qi Zhou, Martina Schmidt, Karl H. Jakobs, Tilman Sauerbruch and Jörg Heller
 

Loss of the Major Duodenal Papilla Results in Brown Pigment Biliary Stone Formation in Pdx1 Null Mice  • ARTICLE
Akihisa Fukuda, Yoshiya Kawaguchi, Kenichiro Furuyama, Sota Kodama, Takeshi Kuhara, Masashi Horiguchi, Masayuki Koizumi, Koji Fujimoto, Ryuichiro Doi, Christopher V.E. Wright and Tsutomu Chiba
 

Polyclonal T-Cell Responses to Cytochrome P450IID6 Are Associated With Disease Activity in Autoimmune Hepatitis Type 2  • ARTICLE
Yun Ma, Dimitrios P. Bogdanos, Munther J. Hussain, James Underhill, Sanjay Bansal, Maria Serena Longhi, Paul Cheeseman, Giorgina Mieli–Vergani and Diego Vergani
 

Hepatitis C Virus Core Protein Is a Potent Inhibitor of RNA Silencing-Based Antiviral Response  • ARTICLE
Yue Wang, Naoya Kato, Amarsanaa Jazag, Narayan Dharel, Motoyuki Otsuka, Hiroyoshi Taniguchi, Takao Kawabe and Masao Omata
 

Mitochondrial Neurogastrointestinal Encephalomyopathy: Evidence of Mitochondrial DNA Depletion in the Small Intestine  • ARTICLE
Carla Giordano, Mariangela Sebastiani, Giuseppe Plazzi, Claudia Travaglini, Patrizio Sale, Marcello Pinti, Andrea Tancredi, Rocco Liguori, Pasquale Montagna, Marzio Bellan et al.
 

Identification of Mouse Genes With Highly Specific Expression Patterns in Differentiated Intestinal Epithelium  • ARTICLE
Natalia Schröder, Aravind Sekhar, Insa Geffers, Julia Müller, Oliver Dittrich–Breiholz, Michael Kracht, Jochen Wedemeyer and Achim Gossler
 

Hepatocanalicular Transport Defects: Pathophysiologic Mechanisms of Rare Diseases  • ARTICLE
Ronald P.J. Oude Elferink, Coen C. Paulusma and Albert K. Groen
 

Of Cilia and Cysts: Modeling Pancreatic Polycystic Disease  • ARTICLE
Klaus H. Kaestner
 

Continuing Medical Education Exams 1: March 2006  • MISCELLANEOUS
Eugene Chang and Laura Harrell
 

Continuing Medical Education Exams 2: March 2006: Biofeedback Is Superior to Laxatives for Normal Transit Constipation due to Pelvic Floor Dyssynergia  • MISCELLANEOUS
G. Chiarioni, W.E. Whitehead, V. Pezza, A. Morelli and G. Bassotti
 

Continuing Medical Education Exams 3: March 2006: The Aer-O-Scope: Proof of Concept of a Pneumatic, Skill Independent, Self Propelling, Self Navigating Colonoscope  • MISCELLANEOUS
B. Vucelic, D. Rex, R. Pulanic, J. Pfefer, I. Hrstic, B. Levin, Z. Halpren and N. Arber
 

Continuing Medical Education Exams 4: March 2006: Predicting Cirrhosis Risk Based on the Level of Circulating Hepatitis B Viral Load  • MISCELLANEOUS
U.H. Iloeje, H.–I. Yang, J. Su, C.–L. Jen, S.–L. You and C.–J. Chen
 

Continuing Medical Education Exams 5: March 2006: Hepatocanalicular Transport Defects: Pathophysiological Mechanisms of Rare Diseases  • MISCELLANEOUS
R.P.J. Oude Elferink, C.C. Paulusma and A.K. Groen
 

Continuing Medical Education Exam 6: March 2006: AGAI Medical Position Statement and Technical Review  • MISCELLANEOUS
G.R. Lichtenstein
 

American Gastroenterological Association Institute Medical Position Statement on Corticosteroids, Immunomodulators, and Infliximab in Inflammatory Bowel Disease  • ARTICLE
Gary R. Lichtenstein, Maria T. Abreu, Russell Cohen and William Tremaine
 

American Gastroenterological Association Institute Technical Review on Corticosteroids, Immunomodulators, and Infliximab in Inflammatory Bowel Disease  • ARTICLE
Gary R. Lichtenstein, Maria T. Abreu, Russell Cohen and William Tremaine
 

Pressure Details From the Weight-Challenged Gastroesophageal Junction: More Than the Usual Suspects  • EDITORIAL
Radu Tutuian and Donald O. Castell
 

Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters–Alcohol’s Henchmen in the Pancreas?  • EDITORIAL
Minoti V. Apte, Ron C. Pirola and Jeremy S. Wilson
 

Prophylaxis with beta blockers as a performance measure of quality health care in cirrhosis  • DISCUSSION
Jayant A. Talwalkar
 

Cyst fluid analysis to diagnose pancreatic cystic lesions: An as yet unfulfilled promise  • ARTICLE
Mario Pelaez-Luna and Suresh T. Chari