Table of contents

Letters

• Reduced microbial diversity in inflammatory bowel diseases (17 July, 2006)

  S J Ott, S Schreiber
• Analysis of the c-kit gene in patients with slow transit constipation

  (17 July, 2006)

  W-D Tong, B-H Liu, L-Y Zhang, S-B Zhang
• Does longitudinal muscle contraction of the oesophagus hold important secrets? (17 July, 2006)

  N A Tipnis, R K Mittal
• Duration of lamivudine prophylaxis in inactive hepatitis B virus carriers with haemato/oncological malignancies who receive chemotherapy (17 July, 2006)

  R Idilman
• Treatment of local ischaemia: another promising approach for gastrointestinal complications of pelvic radiotherapy (17 July, 2006)

  T Konishi, T Watanabe, H Nagawa
• A severe but reversible refractory sprue (17 July, 2006)

  X Dray, F Joly, A Lavergne-Slove, X Treton, Y Bouhnik, B Messing
• Severe recurrent Crohn’s disease of ileocolonic anastomosis and antimicrobial (anti-mycobacterial) therapy (17 July, 2006)

  T J Borody, L B Heifets
• Complication rates of ablation therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma: a difficult comparison with an easy solution (17 July, 2006)

  V Arienti, S Pretolani
• Increased risk of NASH in patients carrying the C(−159)T polymorphism in the CD14 gene promoter region (17 July, 2006)

  P Brun, I Castagliuolo, A R Floreani, A Buda, L Blasone, G Palù, D Martines
• Lavage of a mucinous cystadenoma of the pancreas with povidone iodate (17 July, 2006)

  E Gaia, P Salacone, A Cataldi
• BRAF mutation and gene methylation frequencies of colorectal tumours with microsatellite instability increase markedly with patient age

  (17 July, 2006)

  B Iacopetta, W Q Li, F Grieu, A Ruszkiewicz, K Kawakami
• [−215G>A; IVS3+2T>C] mutation in the SPINK1 gene causes exon 3 skipping and loss of the trypsin binding site

  (17 July, 2006)

  K Kume, A Masamune, K Kikuta, T Shimosegawa
• Neoadjuvant chemoradiation treatment impairs accuracy of MRI staging in rectal carcinoma (17 July, 2006)

  J Jonas, R Bähr