Annals ofGastroenterology & Hepatology

Volume: 3 - Number: 21 - February 15, 2005

Outstanding

Bilirubin, a curse and a boon

Extracolonic findings at computed tomography colonography are a challenge

Prognostic significance of the allelic loss of the BRCA1 gene in colorectal cancer

From comic relief to real understanding; how intestinal gas causes symptoms

Colon

Do calcium channel blockers and antimuscarinics protect against perforated colonic diverticular disease? A case control study

Colon cancer

Extracolonic findings at computed tomography colonography are a challenge

Colonoscopy surveillance of individuals at risk of familial colorectal cancer

Decision analysis in the surgical treatment of colorectal cancer due to a mismatch repair gene defect

Prognostic significance of the allelic loss of the BRCA1 gene in colorectal cancer

Commentaries

The virtuosity of virtuality or how real is virtual colonography

Diagnosing Lynch syndrome: is the answer in the mouth?

Bilirubin, a curse and a boon

Dark lumen magnetic resonance colonography: comparison with conventional colonoscopy for the detection of colorectal pathology

Digest

Digest

Esophagus

Cognitive modulation of the cerebral processing of human oesophageal sensation using functional magnetic resonance imaging

Functional bowel disease

Familial aggregation of irritable bowel syndrome: a prospective study

Intestinal gas distribution determines abdominal symptoms

Cyclooxygenase 2 mediates post-inflammatory colonic secretory and barrier dysfunction

Gastric cancer

Comparison of cyclooxygenase 2 expression in adenocarcinomas of the gastric cardia and distal oesophagus

Association of interleukin 1B gene polymorphism and gastric cancers in high and low prevalence regions in China

GI snapshot

Fever, night sweats, and a hepatic mass

GI SNAPSHOT

Inflammatory bowel diseases

Antibiotics with a selective aerobic or anaerobic spectrum have different therapeutic activities in various regions of the colon in interleukin 10 gene deficient mice

A randomised placebo controlled trial of pegylated interferon in active ulcerative colitis

Leading articles

From comic relief to real understanding; how intestinal gas causes symptoms

Liver

Bilirubin inhibits bile acid induced apoptosis in rat hepatocytes

Quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay for serum hepatitis B virus DNA as a predictive factor for post-treatment relapse after lamivudine induced hepatitis B e antigen loss or seroconversion

Mucosal immunology

Intestinal epithelial exosomes carry MHC class II/peptides able to inform the immune system in mice

Coeliac disease: in vivo toxicity of the putative immunodominant epitope

Pancres

Intravenous bolus somatostatin after diagnostic cholangiopancreatography reduces the incidence of pancreatitis associated with therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography procedures: a randomised controlled trial

Short report

Abnormal vascular network complexity: a new phenotypic marker in hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer syndrome