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    Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology: Volume 20, Issue 1

    1-164
    January 2005
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Editorial

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Ideal hepatocyte: Quest for the Holy Grail

SAMBIT SEN,  RAJIV JALAN, 
  • Pages: 1-4
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Reviews

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Hepatitis B vaccine boosters: Is there a clinical need in high endemicity populations?

T JACOB JOHN,  GRAHAM COOKSLEY, 
  • Pages: 5-10
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Review Article

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Treatment with proton pump inhibitors in acute non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding: A meta-analysis

MOHAMMED S KHUROO,  MEHNAAZ S KHUROO,  KARIM LC FARAHAT,  INGVAR E KAGEVI, 
  • Pages: 11-25
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Gastroenterology

Prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux disease and gastroesophageal reflux disease symptoms in Japan

YASUHIRO FUJIWARA,  KAZUHIDE HIGUCHI,  YOKO WATANABE,  MASATSUGU SHIBA,  TOSHIO WATANABE,  KAZUNARI TOMINAGA,  NOBUHIDE OSHITANI,  TAKAYUKI MATSUMOTO,  HIDEKI NISHIKAWA,  TETSUO ARAKAWA, 
  • Pages: 26-29
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Impact of 24-h esophageal pH monitoring on the diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease: Defining the gold standard

KAUSHAL MADAN,  VINEET AHUJA,  SIDDARTH DUTTA GUPTA,  CHANDRASEKHAR BAL,  ANU KAPOOR,  MAHESH PRAKASH SHARMA, 
  • Pages: 30-37
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Functional mechanism underlying cyclooxygenase-2 expression in rat small intestine following administration of indomethacin: Relation to intestinal hypermotility

AKIKO TANAKA,  MASAHIRO MATSUMOTO,  YUJIRO HAYASHI,  KOJI TAKEUCHI, 
  • Pages: 38-45
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Colonoscopic classification of internal hemorrhoids: Usefulness in endoscopic band ligation

AKIHISA FUKUDA,  TORU KAJIYAMA,  HIROYUKI KISHIMOTO,  HIROAKI ARAKAWA,  HITOSHI SOMEDA,  MASAHIKO SAKAI,  HIROSHI SENO,  TSUTOMU CHIBA, 
  • Pages: 46-50
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Risk of colorectal adenomas in a multiethnic Asian patient population: Race does not matter

SHANMUGARAJAH RAJENDRA,  JACQUELINE J HO,  JOHN AROKIASAMY, 
  • Pages: 51-55
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Extrahepatic portal venous obstruction and obstructive jaundice: Approach to management

RITU KHARE,  SADIQ S SIKORA,  GADIYARAM SRIKANTH,  GAUR CHOUDHURI,  VIVEK A SARASWAT,  ASHOK KUMAR,  RAJAN SAXENA,  VINAY K KAPOOR, 
  • Pages: 56-61
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Impact of gemcitabine on the treatment of metastatic pancreatic cancer

HIROSHI ISHII,  JUNJI FURUSE,  MICHITAKA NAGASE,  MASAHIRO YOSHINO, 
  • Pages: 62-66
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Patterns of K-ras codon 12 and 13 mutations found in pancreatic adenocarcinoma of 30 Chinese patients by microdissection, PCR and direct sequencing

SHUANZENG WEI,  ZHIYONG LIANG,  JIE GAO,  SHAFEI WU,  HONG ZHU,  HONGRUI LIU,  TONGHUA LIU, 
  • Pages: 67-72
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Stool decay-accelerating factor as a marker for monitoring the disease activity during leukocyte apheresis therapy in patients with refractory ulcerative colitis

HIROYUKI KOHNO,  MOTOWO MIZUNO,  JUNICHIROU NASU,  CHIHO MAKIDONO,  SAKIKO HIRAOKA,  TOMOKI INABA,  KAZUHIDE YAMAMOTO,  HIROYUKI OKADA,  TEIZO FUJITA,  YASUSHI SHIRATORI, 
  • Pages: 73-78
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Hepatology

Australian men's experiences of living with hepatitis C virus: Results from a cross-sectional survey

SANDRA M GIFFORD,  MARY L O'BRIEN,  ANTHONY SMITH,  MEREDITH TEMPLE-SMITH,  MARK STOOVÉ,  DREW MITCHELL,  DAMIEN JOLLEY, 
  • Pages: 79-86
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Alterations of the fragile histidine triad gene in hepatitis C virus-associated hepatocellular carcinoma

ABDEL-RAHMAN N ZEKRI,  ABEER A BAHNASSY,  MOHAMED HAFEZ,  AMAL MR EL-SHEHABY,  GHADA M SHERIF,  HUSSEIN M KHALED,  NADIA ZAKHARY, 
  • Pages: 87-94
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Significance of hepatitis B virus DNA clearance and early prediction of hepatocellular carcinogenesis in patients with cirrhosis undergoing interferon therapy: Long-term follow up of a pilot study

KENJI IKEDA,  MASAHIRO KOBAYASHI,  SATOSHI SAITOH,  TAKASHI SOMEYA,  TETSUYA HOSAKA,  NORIO AKUTA,  YOSHIYUKI SUZUKI,  FUMITAKA SUZUKI,  AKIHITO TSUBOTA,  YASUJI ARASE,  HIROMITSU KUMADA, 
  • Pages: 95-102
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Is portal hypertension associated with protein-losing enteropathy?

PHILIPPOS GEORGOPOULOS,  CRAIG MOWAT,  DONALD C MCMILLAN,  KATHLEEN KINGSTONE,  SUBRATA GHOSH,  ADRIAN J STANLEY, 
  • Pages: 103-107
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

PGE1 abolishes the mitochondrial-independent cell death pathway induced by D-galactosamine in primary culture of rat hepatocytes

EMILIO SIENDONES,  YOLANDA JIMÉNEZ-GÓMEZ,  JOSÉ LUÍS MONTERO,  CONSUELO GÓMEZ-DÍAZ,  JOSÉ MANUEL VILLALBA,  JORDI MUNTANÉ, 
  • Pages: 108-116
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Effects of obstructive jaundice on neutrophil production and acquisition of chemotactic activity in the bone marrow

MASAAKI SHIMATANI,  KAZUYUKI TSUJI,  YOSHIYA AZE,  SHIN YAMAMOTO,  NOBUYUKI SHIBATANI,  YOSHIHITO IMAI,  SHOICHIROH TAKAMIDO,  YOSHITSUGU KUBOTA,  KAZUICHI OKAZAKI, 
  • Pages: 117-125
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Using higher-order crossings to distinguish liver regeneration indices in hepatectomized diabetic and non-diabetic rats

CHRISTOS LIATSOS,  LEONTIOS J HADJILEONTIADIS,  STAMOS THEOCHARIS,  EVANGELIA PETRIDOU,  ALEXANDRA MARGELI,  SPYRIDON SKALTSAS,  CHRISTOS MAVROGIANNIS,  MICHAEL MYKONIATIS, 
  • Pages: 126-134
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Specific type IV phosphodiesterase inhibitor ameliorates thioacetamide-induced liver injury in rats

TAMOTSU MATSUHASHI,  MICHIRO OTAKA,  MASARU ODASHIMA,  MARIO JIN,  KOGA KOMATSU,  NORIAKI KONISHI,  ISAO WADA,  TOSHIHIRO SATO,  YOUHEI HORIKAWA,  REINA OHBA,  JINKO OYAKE,  NATSUMI HATAKEYAMA,  SUMIO WATANABE, 
  • Pages: 135-140
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Relation of hepatolithiasis to helminthic infestation

MIN-HO HUANG,  CHIEN-HUA CHEN,  CHUAN-MIN YEN,  JEE-CHUN YANG,  CHI-CHIEH YANG,  YUNG-HSIANG YEH,  DER-AUR CHOU,  SEN-KOU YUEH,  YU-YEN YANG,  CHIU-KUEI NIEN, 
  • Pages: 141-146
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Bone disease in primary biliary cirrhosis: Lack of association with distal renal tubular acidosis

ALBERTO Q FARIAS,  LUCIANA L GONÇALVES,  EDUARDO LR CANÇADO,  ANTONIO C SEGURO,  SILVIA B CAMPOS,  CLARICE P ABRANTES-LEMOS,  FLAIR J CARRILHO, 
  • Pages: 147-152
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Images of Interest

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Gastrointestinal: Self-expanding metal stents for benign esophageal strictures

H Okano,  S Okinaga,  D Ikeuchi,  K Miwa,  K Shiraki, 
  • Page: 153
  • First Published: 21 May 2009
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Gastrointestinal: Juvenile polyposis syndrome

KS Sodhi,  AK Saxena,  S Suri,  S Khandelwal, 
  • Page: 154
  • First Published: 21 May 2009
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Hepatobiliary and pancreatic: Aberrant left gastric vein

H Sugimoto,  S Takeda,  S Inoue,  T Kaneko,  A Nakao, 
  • Page: 155
  • First Published: 21 May 2009
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Hepatobiliary and pancreatic: Dorfman–Chanarin syndrome

T Doganci,  F Gurakar,  A Karaduman,  D Orhan,  M Caglar, 
  • Page: 156
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Genetic Disorders in Gastroenterology and Hepatology

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Polymorphism and ulcerative colitis

IC Roberts-Thomson,  WJ Butler, 
  • Pages: 157-158
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Case Report

Intrapancreatic pseudoaneurysm associated with pancreatitis mimicking pancreatic tumor

MASAJI HASHIMOTO,  GORO WATANABE,  MASAMICHI MATSUDA,  MASAYA MORI, 
  • Pages: 159-161
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

Letters to the Editor

BARRETT's ESOPHAGUS AMONGST ASIANS: UNDER-RECOGNIZED AND FREQUENTLY MISSED?

Shanmugarajah Rajendra,  Kannan Kutty, 
  • Pages: 164-167
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

WHAT IS THE BEST INDICATOR FOR EVALUATING TREATMENT RESPONSE IN NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE: HISTOLOGY OR AMINOTRANSFERASE LEVELS?

Filiz Akyüz,  Kadir Demir,  Uğur Çevikbaş,  Atilla Ökten, 
  • Pages: 167-168
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

THERAPEUTIC OPTIONS FOR ESOPHAGEAL CANCER

Vinay Sharma,  Bernard Donde, 
  • Pages: 163-164
  • First Published: 21 May 2009

SPONTANEOUS RUPTURE OF A MASS-FORMING TYPE PERIPHERAL CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA

Tomotaka Akatsu,  Masakazu Ueda,  Motohide Shimazu,  Shigeyuki Kawachi,  Minoru Tanabe,  Koichi Aiura,  Go Wakabayashi,  Michiie Sakamoto,  Ryota Matsuo,  Masaki Kitajima, 
  • Pages: 162-163
  • First Published: 21 May 2009