Table of contents

Original articles

Oesophagus

• Original article: microRNA-145 in Barrett's oesophagus: regulating BMP4 signalling via GATA6 (13 April, 2012)

  Jantine W P M van Baal, Romy E Verbeek, Pauline Bus, Matteo Fassan, Rhonda F Souza, Massimo Rugge, Fiebo J W ten Kate, Frank P Vleggaar, Peter D Siersema

Helicobacter pylori

• Original article:

  The benefit of mass eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection: a community-based study of gastric cancer prevention

  (14 June, 2012)

  Yi-Chia Lee, Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen, Han-Mo Chiu, Chia-Tung Shun, Hung Chiang, Tzeng-Ying Liu, Ming-Shiang Wu, Jaw-Town Lin

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Original article: Serological markers predict inflammatory bowel disease years before the diagnosis (26 July, 2012)

  Fiona D M van Schaik, Bas Oldenburg, Andrew R Hart, Peter D Siersema, Stefan Lindgren, Olof Grip, Birgit Teucher, Rudolf Kaaks, Manuela M Bergmann, Heiner Boeing, Franck Carbonnel, Prevost Jantchou, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Anne Tjønneland, Anja Olsen, Francesca L Crowe, Petra H M Peeters, Martijn G H van Oijen, H Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita
• Original article: Risk of ischaemic heart disease in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a nationwide Danish cohort study (8 September, 2012)

  Christine Rungoe, Saima Basit, Mattis Flyvholm Ranthe, Jan Wohlfahrt, Ebbe Langholz, Tine Jess
• Original article: The intermediate filament protein, vimentin, is a regulator of NOD2 activity (8 June, 2012)

  Craig Stevens, Paul Henderson, Elaine R Nimmo, Dinesh C Soares, Belgin Dogan, Kenneth W Simpson, Jeffrey C Barrett, International Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics Consortium, David C Wilson, Jack Satsangi

Neurogastroenterology

• Original article: A randomised controlled study of the effect of cholinesterase inhibition on colon function in patients with diabetes mellitus and constipation (7 June, 2012)

  Adil E Bharucha, Phillip Low, Michael Camilleri, Erica Veil, Duane Burton, Yogish Kudva, Pankaj Shah, Tonette Gehrking, Alan R Zinsmeister

Colon

• Original article:

  miR-574-5p negatively regulates Qki6/7 to impact β-catenin/Wnt signalling and the development of colorectal cancer

  (5 April, 2012)

  Shunlong Ji, Gengtai Ye, Jun Zhang, Linpei Wang, Tao Wang, Zhen Wang, Tiantian Zhang, Guanghui Wang, Zongsheng Guo, Yu Luo, Jianchun Cai, James Y Yang
• Original article: Cost-effectiveness of one versus two sample faecal immunochemical testing for colorectal cancer screening (5 April, 2012)

  S Lucas Goede, Aafke H C van Roon, Jacqueline C I Y Reijerink, Anneke J van Vuuren, Iris Lansdorp-Vogelaar, J Dik F Habbema, Ernst J Kuipers, Monique E van Leerdam, Marjolein van Ballegooijen
• Original article: Offering people a choice for colorectal cancer screening (22 March, 2012)

  Carlo Senore, Andrea Ederle, Luca Benazzato, Arrigo Arrigoni, Marco Silvani, Alberto Fantin, Mario Fracchia, Paola Armaroli, Nereo Segnan

Pancreas

• Original article:

  Selectin binding is essential for peritoneal carcinomatosis in a xenograft model of human pancreatic adenocarcinoma in pfp⁻⁻/rag2⁻⁻ mice

  (5 April, 2012)

  Florian Gebauer, Daniel Wicklein, Katrin Stübke, Nina Nehmann, Anna Schmidt, Johannes Salamon, Kersten Peldschus, Michael Fabian Nentwich, Gerhard Adam, Genrich Tolstonog, Maximilian Bockhorn, Jakob R Izbicki, Christoph Wagener, Udo Schumacher
• Original article: Gemcitabine plus erlotinib followed by capecitabine versus capecitabine plus erlotinib followed by gemcitabine in advanced pancreatic cancer: final results of a randomised phase 3 trial of the ‘Arbeitsgemeinschaft Internistische Onkologie’ (AIO-PK0104) (7 July, 2012)

  Volker Heinemann, Ursula Vehling-Kaiser, Dirk Waldschmidt, Erika Kettner, Angela Märten, Cornelia Winkelmann, Stefan Klein, Georgi Kojouharoff, Thomas C Gauler, Ludwig Fischer von Weikersthal, Michael R Clemens, Michael Geissler, Tim F Greten, Susanna Hegewisch-Becker, Oleg Rubanov, Gerold Baake, Thomas Höhler, Yon D Ko, Andreas Jung, Sascha Neugebauer, Stefan Boeck

Hepatology

• Original article: Virological response to entecavir is associated with a better clinical outcome in chronic hepatitis B patients with cirrhosis (5 April, 2012)

  Roeland Zoutendijk, Jurrien GP Reijnders, Fabien Zoulim, Ashley Brown, David J Mutimer, Katja Deterding, Wolf Peter Hofmann, Joerg Petersen, Massimo Fasano, Maria Buti, Thomas Berg, Bettina E Hansen, Milan J Sonneveld, Heiner Wedemeyer, Harry L A Janssen, for the VIRGIL Surveillance Study Group
• Original article:

  Vitamin B₁₂ supplementation improves rates of sustained viral response in patients chronically infected with hepatitis C virus

  (17 July, 2012)

  Alba Rocco, Debora Compare, Pietro Coccoli, Ciro Esposito, Antimo Di Spirito, Antonio Barbato, Pasquale Strazzullo, Gerardo Nardone