Annals ofGastroenterology & Hepatology

Volume: 3 - Number: 24 - June 15, 2005

Outstanding

Fibrosis progression in chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Detecting diminutive colorectal lesions at colonoscopy: a randomised controlled trial of pan-colonic versus targeted chromoscopy

Improved characterisation of histologically proven liver tumours by contrast enhanced ultrasonography during the portal venous and specific late phase of SHU 508A

Steatosis affects chronic hepatitis C progression in a genotype specific way

Colon

Enteric neurones modulate the colonic permeability response to luminal bile acids in rat colon in vivo

Behavioural therapy (biofeedback) for solitary rectal ulcer syndrome improves symptoms and mucosal blood flow

Colon cancer

Prognostic significance of microsatellite instability determined by immunohistochemical staining of MSH2 and MLH1 in sporadic T3N0M0 colon cancer

Detecting diminutive colorectal lesions at colonoscopy: a randomised controlled trial of pan-colonic versus targeted chromoscopy

Duodenal adenomatosis in familial adenomatous polyposis

The Department of Health’s "two week standard" for bowel cancer: is it working?

Commentaries

Extracolonic polyposis in familial adenomatous polyposis: so near and yet so far

Digest

Digest

Editorial

Progress report

GI Snapshot

Menetrier disease

Answer

Large bowel obstruction due to a benign uterine leiomyoma

Answer

Inflammatory bowel diseases

An interleukin 12 p40-IgG2b fusion protein abrogates T cell mediated inflammation: anti-inflammatory activity in Crohn’s disease and experimental colitis in vivo

Microscopic colitis: a common diarrhoeal disease. An epidemiological study in Örebro, Sweden, 1993–1998

Appendicectomy has no beneficial effect on admission rates in patients with ulcerative colitis

Liver

Severe hepatic injury in interleukin 18 (IL-18) transgenic mice: a key role for IL-18 in regulating hepatocyte apoptosis in vivo

Improved characterisation of histologically proven liver tumours by contrast enhanced ultrasonography during the portal venous and specific late phase of SHU 508A

Steatosis affects chronic hepatitis C progression in a genotype specific way

Modest weight loss and physical activity in overweight patients with chronic liver disease results in sustained improvements in alanine aminotransferase, fasting insulin, and quality of life

Effect of antiviral treatment on evolution of liver steatosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C: indirect evidence of a role of hepatitis C virus genotype 3 in steatosis

Benefit of interferon therapy in hepatocellular carcinoma prevention for individual patients with chronic hepatitis C

Randomised controlled trial of long term portographic follow up versus variceal band ligation following transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent shunt for preventing oesophageal variceal rebleeding

Pancres

Tumour suppression induced by the macrophage activating lipopeptide MALP-2 in an ultrasound guided pancreatic carcinoma mouse model

Principal's Articles

Fibrosis progression in chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Stomach

PDX1 homeobox protein expression in pseudopyloric glands and gastric carcinomas

Effect of peroxisome proliferator activated receptor ligands on growth and gene expression profiles of gastric cancer cells