Table of contents

Letters

• Gender, hiatus hernia and Barrett’s oesophagus (11 June, 2009)

  M H Derakhshan, K E L McColl
• Authors’ reply (11 June, 2009)

  R M Zagari, G R Law, F Bazzoli
• Alarm features of colorectal cancer (11 June, 2009)

  G Rubin, W Hamilton
• Authors’ reply (11 June, 2009)

  A C Ford, S J O Veldhuyzen van Zanten, C C Rodgers, N J Talley, N B Vakil, P Moayyedi
• HBV genotypes and chronicification of acute hepatitis B: more questions than answers (11 June, 2009)

  C-L Lin, J-H Kao
• Authors’ reply (11 June, 2009)

  H-W Zhang, J-H Yin, G-W Cao
• A distinct subset of submucosal mast cells undergoes hyperplasia following neonatal maternal separation: a role in visceral hypersensitivity? (11 June, 2009)

  N P Hyland, M Julio-Pieper, S M O’Mahony, D C Bulmer, K Lee, E M Quigley, T G Dinan, J F Cryan
• Authors’ reply (11 June, 2009)

  J Fioramonti, C Salvador-Cartier, E Houdeau, L Bueno
• Myenteric lymphocytes in the oesophagus (11 June, 2009)

  B Veress, G Lindberg
• Are all pancreatic lesions responsive to steroid therapy in autoimmune pancreatitis? (11 June, 2009)

  K Hirano, M Tada, N Sasahira, T Tsujino, H Isayama, T Kawabe, M Omata
• Authors’ reply (11 June, 2009)

  M-H Kim, S-H Moon, D H Park