Annals ofGastroenterology & Hepatology

Volume: 4 - Number: 35 - May 15, 2006

Outstanding

Thalidomide in the treatment of cancer cachexia: a randomised placebo controlled trial

The complicated path to true causes of disease: role of nuclear factor B in inflammatory bowel disease

Chromoendoscopic surveillance in hereditary diffuse gastric cancer: an alternative to prophylactic gastrectomy?

Prevalence and clinical significance of isotype specific antinuclear antibodies in primary biliary cirrhosis

Cancer

Thalidomide in the treatment of cancer cachexia: a randomised placebo controlled trial

Colorectal disease

Relationship between symptoms and disordered continence mechanisms in women with idiopathic faecal incontinence

Commentaries

The complicated path to true causes of disease: role of nuclear factor B in inflammatory bowel disease

Thalidomide and cancer cachexia: old problem, new hope?

Digest

Digest

Gastric cancer

Chromoendoscopic surveillance in hereditary diffuse gastric cancer: an alternative to prophylactic gastrectomy?

Gastric motility

Influence of erythromycin on gastric emptying and meal related symptoms in functional dyspepsia with delayed gastric emptying

Gastro-oesophageal reflux

Weakly acidic reflux in patients with chronic unexplained cough during 24 hour pressure, pH, and impedance monitoring

Inflammatory bowel diseases

Differential expression of multiple transglutaminases in human colon: impaired keratinocyte transglutaminase expression in ulcerative colitis

Activation of nuclear factor B in colonic mucosa from patients with collagenous and ulcerative colitis

Liver

Effect of intravenous N-acetylcysteine infusion on haemostatic parameters in healthy subjects

Increased anandamide induced relaxation in mesenteric arteries of cirrhotic rats: role of cannabinoid and vanilloid receptors

Prevalence and clinical significance of isotype specific antinuclear antibodies in primary biliary cirrhosis

Diabetes increases the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States: a population based case control study

Miscellanea

Clue to a more serious diagnosis

An unusual cause of abdominal pain in a patient with hepatitis C cirrhosis

Giant gastric ulcer: an endoscopic roller coaster

An unusual abdominal mass

EDITOR’S QUIZ: GI SNAPSHOT

EDITOR’S QUIZ: GI SNAPSHOT

Gut Tutorial: cholangiocarcinoma

Pancres

Cigarette smoking accelerates progression of alcoholic chronic pancreatitis

Recent advances in clinical practice

Infection, coagulation, and variceal bleeding in cirrhosis

Small intestinal

Homeostatic regulation of zinc transporters in the human small intestine by dietary zinc supplementation