Annals ofGastroenterology & Hepatology

Volume: 4 - Number: 37 - July 15, 2006

Outstanding

Clinicopathological and immunohistochemical analysis of gastrointestinal stromal tumor

Long-term outcome of endoscopic metallic stenting for benign biliary stenosis associated with chronic pancreatitis

Omeprazole maintenance therapy prevents recurrent ulcer bleeding after surgery for duodenal ulcer

Dietary carbohydrates and glycaemic load and the incidence of symptomatic gall stone disease in men

Articles

Clinicopathological and immunohistochemical analysis of gastrointestinal stromal tumor

Endoscopic ultrasonographic appearance of gastric emphysema.

Gallbladder bile composition in patients with Crohn’s disease

Long-term outcome of endoscopic metallic stenting for benign biliary stenosis associated with chronic pancreatitis

Novel mechanisms in functional dyspepsia

Omeprazole maintenance therapy prevents recurrent ulcer bleeding after surgery for duodenal ulcer

Relaxin prevents the development of severe acute pancreatitis

Malignant phyllode tumor metastatic to the duodenum

Colorectal cancer

O6-methylguanine methyltransferase in colorectal cancers: detection of mutations, loss of expression, and weak association with G:C>A:T transitions

Interval faecal occult blood testing in a colonoscopy based screening programme detects additional pathology

Quality in the technical performance of screening flexible sigmoidoscopy: recommendations of an international multi-society task group

Hepatobiliary disease

Dietary carbohydrates and glycaemic load and the incidence of symptomatic gall stone disease in men

ATP8B1 mutations in British cases with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy

Nuclear factor B inactivation in the rat liver ameliorates short term total warm ischaemia/reperfusion injury

Ephrin-A1 expression contributes to the malignant characteristics of -fetoprotein producing hepatocellular carcinoma

Pancres

Translocation of p21Cip1/WAF1 from the nucleus to the cytoplasm correlates with pancreatic myofibroblast to fibroblast cell conversion

Recent advances in basic science

CLINICAL RELEVANCE OF PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTORS (PARS) IN THE GUT

Recent advances in clinical practice

ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY FOR BARRETT’S OESOPHAGUS

VIRAL HEPATITIS:

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes in 373 Italian children with HCV infection: changing distribution and correlation with clinical features and outcome

Peginterferon -2b and ribavirin therapy in chronic hepatitis C genotype 4: impact of treatment duration and viral kinetics on sustained virological response