Annals ofGastroenterology & Hepatology

Volume: 4 - Number: 32 - February 15, 2006

Outstanding

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

Increased prevalence of fatty liver in arterial hypertensive patients with normal liver enzymes: role of insulin resistance

Recombinant human interleukin 10 suppresses gliadin dependent T cell activation in ex vivo cultured coeliac intestinal mucosa

Malignant lymphomas in coeliac disease: evidence of increased risks for lymphoma types other than enteropathy-type T cell lymphoma

Coeliac disease

Recombinant human interleukin 10 suppresses gliadin dependent T cell activation in ex vivo cultured coeliac intestinal mucosa

Malignant lymphomas in coeliac disease: evidence of increased risks for lymphoma types other than enteropathy-type T cell lymphoma

Colorectal cancer

Low level microsatellite instability may be associated with reduced cancer specific survival in sporadic stage C colorectal carcinoma

Inflammatory bowel diseases

CD4+ T cell mediated intestinal immunity: chronic inflammation versus immune regulation

CD40 antisense oligonucleotide inhibition of trinitrobenzene sulphonic acid induced rat colitis

CD4+CD45RBHi T cell transfer induced colitis in mice is accompanied by osteopenia which is treatable with recombinant human osteoprotegerin

Liver

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

Increased prevalence of fatty liver in arterial hypertensive patients with normal liver enzymes: role of insulin resistance

Long term prognosis of fatty liver: risk of chronic liver disease and death

Expression of insulin-like growth factor I by activated hepatic stellate cells reduces fibrogenesis and enhances regeneration after liver injury

Repeated adenoviral administration into the biliary tract can induce repeated expression of the original gene construct in rat livers without immunosuppressive strategies

Prevention of critical telomere shortening by oestradiol in human normal hepatic cultured cells and carbon tetrachloride induced rat liver fibrosis

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

Hepatic vein transit times using a microbubble agent can predict disease severity non-invasively in patients with hepatitis C

Adiponectin and its receptors in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

Influence of biliary cirrhosis on the detoxification and elimination of a food derived carcinogen

Hepatic triglyceride content and its relation to body adiposity: a magnetic resonance imaging and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study

Miscellanea

An unusual cause of diarrhoea in a patient with colitis

Pancreatic cancer

Dominant negative inhibitors of signalling through the phosphoinositol 3-kinase pathway for gene therapy of pancreatic cancer