Table of contents

Original articles

Stomach

• Original article: Comprehensive genomic meta-analysis identifies intra-tumoural stroma as a predictor of survival in patients with gastric cancer (26 June, 2012) Free

  Yonghui Wu, Heike Grabsch, Tatiana Ivanova, Iain Beehuat Tan, Jacinta Murray, Chia Huey Ooi, Alexander Ian Wright, Nicholas P West, Gordon G A Hutchins, Jeanie Wu, Minghui Lee, Julian Lee, Jun Hao Koo, Khay Guan Yeoh, Nicole van Grieken, Bauke Ylstra, Sun Young Rha, Jaffer A Ajani, Jae Ho Cheong, Sung Hoon Noh, Kiat Hon Lim, Alex Boussioutas, Ju-Seog Lee, Patrick Tan

Nutrition

• Insight into the prebiotic concept: lessons from an exploratory, double blind intervention study with inulin-type fructans in obese women (7 November, 2012)

  Evelyne M Dewulf, Patrice D Cani, Sandrine P Claus, Susana Fuentes, Philippe GB Puylaert, Audrey M Neyrinck, Laure B Bindels, Willem M de Vos, Glenn R Gibson, Jean-Paul Thissen, Nathalie M Delzenne

Inflammatory bowel disease

• Original article: A randomised phase I study of etrolizumab (rhuMAb β7) in moderate to severe ulcerative colitis (20 June, 2012)

  Paul J Rutgeerts, Richard N Fedorak, Daan W Hommes, Andreas Sturm, Daniel C Baumgart, Brian Bressler, Stefan Schreiber, John C Mansfield, Marna Williams, Meina Tang, Jennifer Visich, Xiaohui Wei, Mary Keir, Diana Luca, Dimitri Danilenko, Jackson Egen, Sharon O'Byrne
• Original article: Adipose-derived mesenchymal stromal cells induce immunomodulatory macrophages which protect from experimental colitis and sepsis (25 May, 2012)

  Per Anderson, Luciana Souza-Moreira, Maria Morell, Marta Caro, Francisco O'Valle, Elena Gonzalez-Rey, Mario Delgado
• Original article: Bone marrow-mesenchymal stem cells are a major source of interleukin-7 and sustain colitis by forming the niche for colitogenic CD4 memory T cells (9 November, 2012)

  Yasuhiro Nemoto, Takanori Kanai, Masahiro Takahara, Shigeru Oshima, Tetsuya Nakamura, Ryuichi Okamoto, Kiichiro Tsuchiya, Mamoru Watanabe
• Original article: Oral contraceptives, reproductive factors and risk of inflammatory bowel disease (22 May, 2012)

  Hamed Khalili, Leslie M Higuchi, Ashwin N Ananthakrishnan, James M Richter, Diane Feskanich, Charles S Fuchs, Andrew T Chan

Irritable bowel syndrome

• Original article: Diarrhoea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome: an organic disorder with structural abnormalities in the jejunal epithelial barrier (25 May, 2012)

  Cristina Martínez, Beatriz Lobo, Marc Pigrau, Laura Ramos, Ana Maria González-Castro, Carmen Alonso, Mar Guilarte, Meritxell Guilá, Ines de Torres, Fernando Azpiroz, Javier Santos, María Vicario

Colon

• Original article: Novel roles of liver sinusoidal endothelial cell lectin in colon carcinoma cell adhesion, migration and in-vivo metastasis to the liver (25 May, 2012)

  Yunfei Zuo, Shuangyi Ren, Min Wang, Biao Liu, Juntao Yang, Xuezhang Kuai, Changwei Lin, Dianyuan Zhao, Li Tang, Fuchu He
• Original article: Fluorescence endoscopic detection of murine colitis-associated colon cancer by topically applied enzymatically rapid-activatable probe (14 June, 2012)

  Makoto Mitsunaga, Nobuyuki Kosaka, Peter L Choyke, Matthew R Young, Christopher R Dextras, Shakir M Saud, Nancy H Colburn, Masayo Sakabe, Tetsuo Nagano, Daisuke Asanuma, Yasuteru Urano, Hisataka Kobayashi

Pancreas

• Original article: Vegetables, fruit and risk of non-gallstone-related acute pancreatitis: a population-based prospective cohort study (27 June, 2012)

  Viktor Oskarsson, Omid Sadr-Azodi, Nicola Orsini, Åke Andrén-Sandberg, Alicja Wolk

Hepatology

• Original article: Very low-density lipoprotein/lipo-viro particles reverse lipoprotein lipase-mediated inhibition of hepatitis C virus infection via apolipoprotein C-III (11 June, 2012)

  Hung-Yu Sun, Chun-Chieh Lin, Jin-Ching Lee, Shainn-Wei Wang, Pin-Nan Cheng, I-Chin Wu, Ting-Tsung Chang, Ming-Derg Lai, Dar-Bin Shieh, Kung-Chia Young
• Original article: Expression of B and T lymphocyte attenuator (BTLA) in macrophages contributes to the fulminant hepatitis caused by murine hepatitis virus strain-3 (25 May, 2012)

  Chengying Yang, Yongwen Chen, Guoning Guo, Hong Li, Dayan Cao, Huan Xu, Sheng Guo, Lei Fei, Weiming Yan, Qing Ning, Lixin Zheng, Yuzhang Wu