Annals ofGastroenterology & Hepatology

Volume: 4 - Number: 38 - August 15, 2006

Outstanding

Are we studying the correct state of the stellate cell to elucidate mechanisms of chronic pancreatitis?

Autoimmune pancreatitis—also a Western disease

Brain imaging and its implications for studying centrally targeted treatments in irritable bowel syndrome: a primer for gastroenterologists

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

Colorectal cancer

Association between family history and mismatch repair in colorectal cancer

Commentaries

Are we studying the correct state of the stellate cell to elucidate mechanisms of chronic pancreatitis?

Autoimmune pancreatitis—also a Western disease

Clinical epidemiology—how important now?

Creeping fat in Crohn’s disease: travelling in a creeper lane of research?

Digest

Digest

Digest

Inflammatory bowel disease

Activation of RegIIIß/ and interferon expression in the intestinal tract of SCID mice: an innate response to bacterial colonisation of the gut

Irritable bowel syndrome

Amitriptyline reduces rectal pain related activation of the anterior cingulate cortex in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

Leading articles

Brain imaging and its implications for studying centrally targeted treatments in irritable bowel syndrome: a primer for gastroenterologists

Liver

Age and paracetamol self-poisoning

ATP8B1 mutations in British cases with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy

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

Miscellanea

An unusual case of terminal ileal stricture

An unusual cause of pyrexia

An unusual complication of Crohn’s colitis

An upper abdominal swelling causing nausea and vomiting

EDITOR’S QUIZ: GI SNAPSHOT

Pancres

Antibodies to carbonic anhydrase and IgG4 levels in idiopathic chronic pancreatitis: relevance for diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis

Recent advances in basic science

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