Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Editor's Comments

Richard L. Wechsler

Returning Control of Health Care to the Patient-Physician Nexus

John T. Farrar

Rabeprazole Versus Omeprazole in Preventing Relapse of Erosive or Ulcerative Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Bjarni Thjodleifsson, Johannes A. Beker, Cornelius Dekkers, Tone Bjaaland, Victoria Finnegan, Thomas J. Humphries

Significance of Autonomic Nervous System Activity in Functional Dyspepsia

Eric R. Muth, Kenneth L. Koch, Robert M. Stern

Cyclin D1 Expression Is Useful as a Prognostic Indicator for Advanced Esophageal Carcinomas, but Not for Superficial Tumors

Hideki Toyoda, Tsuneya Nakamura, Masayuki Shinoda, Takashi Suzuki, Shunzo Hatooka, Seibi Kobayashi, Kazuhiko Ohashi, Masao Seto, Hiroshi Shiku, Shigeo Nakamura

Establishment of Novel Human Esophageal Cancer Cell Line in Relation to Telomere Dynamics and Telomerase Activity

Yasuhiko Kiyozuka, Akira Asai, Daigo Yamamoto, Hideto Senzaki, Sadako Yoshioka, Hakuo Takahashi, Koshiro Hioki, Airo Tsubura

Neutrophil Accumulation in Development of Gastric Ulcer Induced by Submucosal Injection of Endothelin-1 in Rats

Toshio Watanabe, Tetsuo Arakawa, Kazunari Tominaga, Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Kazuhide Higuchi, Tetsuo Kuroki

Letter: Pathogenesis of Increased Sucrose Permeability in H. Pylori Gastritis

David Y. Graham

Obesity Potentiates AOM-Induced Colon Cancer

R.V. Weber, D.E. Stein, J. Scholes, J.G. Kral

Effect of Cholesterol Levels on Villous Histology in Colonic Adenomas

Jeanmarie Houghton, Gaetano G. Lardieri, N. Peter Zauber, Kyung H. Kim, Gregory Cable

Carcinoma of the Gallbladder—Is It a Sequel of Typhoid?

Vijay K. Shukla, Harbans Singh, Manoj Pandey, S.K. Upadhyay, Gopal Nath

Stimulation of Gallbladder by Intravenous Infusion of Amino Acid: A New Method to Obtain Duodenal Bile for Bile Analyses

Pramod Kumar Garg, Geetanjali Goindi, Rakesh Kumar Tandon

Effect of Peritoneal Lavage and Lymph Ligature on Systemic Complications of Experimental Acute Pancreatitis

Emma Folch, Daniel Closa, Emilio Gelpí, Joan Roselló-Catafau

Lipopolysaccharide Directly Affects Pancreatic Acinar Cells

María I. Vaccaro, Ezequiel L. Calvo, Angela M. Suburo, Daniel O. Sordelli, Gustavo Lanosa, Juan L. Iovanna

Cytokine Production by CAPAN-1 and CAPAN-2 Cell Lines

John A. Blanchard II, Shirish Barve, Swati Joshi-Barve, Ramesh Talwalker, Lawrence K. Gates

Case Report: Increased Serum Leptin by Cholecystitis in a Diabetic Patient

Mitsuru Moriya, Toshikatsu Okumura, Wataru Motomura, Nobuhiko Takahashi, Takashi Kitagawa, Yutaka Kohgo

Erythromycin Enhances Solid-Phase Gastric Emptying in Induced-Hyperglycemia in Patients with Truncal Vagotomy and Pyloroplasty

Ioannis E. Petrakis, Nicolaos Vrachassotakis, Sofocles J. Vassilakis, Vincenzo Sciacca, George Chalkiadakis

Cholera Toxin-Induced Secretion in Rats Is Reduced by a Soluble Fiber, Gum Arabic

J.L. Turvill, R.A. Wapnir, M.A. Wingertzahn, S. Teichberg, M.J.G. Farthing

Sleep Disturbance Influences Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Women with Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Monica Jarrett, Margaret Heitkemper, Kevin C. Cain, Robert L. Burr, Vicky Hertig

Effects of Several Endothelin Receptor Antagonists on Gastrointestinal Transit of Guinea Pigs

Kenichi Kuwahara, Yoshio Kitsukawa, Yasuo Suzuki, Yasushi Saito

Effects of Free Radicals and Leukocytes on Increases in Blood–Brain Barrier Permeability During Colitis

Christopher A. Hathaway, William H. Percy, John L. Williams

Combined Oral Sodium Butyrate and Mesalazine Treatment Compared to Oral Mesalazine Alone in Ulcerative Colitis

P. Vernia, G. Monteleone, G. Grandinetti, G. Villotti, E. Di Giulio, G. Frieri, A. Marcheggiano, F. Pallone, R. Caprilli, A. Torsoli

Prediction of Short-Term Outcome for Patients with Active Ulcerative Colitis

Nobuhide Oshitani, Takayuki Matsumoto, Yoshio Jinno, Yoshinori Sawa, Junichi Hara, Shiro Nakamura, Tetsuo Arakawa, Atsuo Kitano, Tetsuo Kuroki

Recombinant Factor XIII Improves Established Experimental Colitis in Rats

Giuseppe D'argenio, Angelika Grossman, Vittorio Cosenza, Nicola Della Valle, Gabriele Mazzacca, Paul D. Bishop

Case Report: Persistent Clostridium difficile Colitis: A Possible Etiology for the Development of Collagenous Colitis

M. Akram Khan, Elizabeth M. Brunt, Walter E. Longo, Michael E. Presti

Estimation of Nitrate Metabolism in Intestinal Tract by Measuring BreathNitrous Oxide Concentrationin Chinese and Japanese

Takahiro Mitsui, Natsuki Kato, Takaharu Kondo

CASE REPORT: Improvement of Chronic Diarrhea After Treatment for Intestinal Spirochetosis

Paolo L. Peghini, John G. Guccion, Archna Sharma

Letter: Oral or Intravenous Lidocaine Administration to Perform MEGX Test?

Edoardo Giannini, Federica Botta, Paola Romagnoli, Roberto Testa

Endoscopic, Ultrasonographic, and US-Doppler Parameters as Indicators of Variceal Bleeding in Patients with Schistosomiasis

Renato Duffles Martins, Jacob Szejnfeld, Flávio G. Lima, Angelo Paulo Ferrari

48-Hour Hemodynamic Effects of Octreotide on Postprandial Splanchnic Hyperemia in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension

Diether Ludwig, Sabina Schãdel, Andreas Brũning, Bernhard Schiefer, Eduard F. Stange

Nature and Behavior of Serum Cytokines in Type 1 Autoimmune Hepatitis

Albert J. Czaja, Corey Sievers, Nizar N. Zein

Case Report: Reversible Nefazodone-Induced Liver Failure

Mohamad A. Eloubeidi, Jane T. Gaede, Mark W. Swaim

Case Report: Severe but Reversible Hepatitis Induced by Troglitazone

Thomas Schiano, Kevin Dolehide, John Hart, Alfred L. Baker

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