1. Antimicrobial peptides in innate immunity of the human intestine

   • Jan-Michel Otte
   • Karlheinz Kiehne
   • Karl-Heinz Herzig

   Review Pages: 717 - 726

2. Gastric mucosal cell protection by epidermal growth factor in primary monolayer culture of guinea pig gastric mucous cells

   • Chikao Shimamoto
   • Ichiro Hirata
   • Ken-ichi Katsu

   Pages: 727 - 733

3. Microsatellite instability and loss of heterozygosity in the nondysplastic colonic epithelium of ulcerative colitis

   • Seiichi Takahashi
   • Yasuhiro Kojima
   • Tooru Shimosegawa

   Pages: 734 - 739

4. Low-dose azathioprine is effective and safe for maintenance of remission in patients with ulcerative colitis

   • Toshifumi Hibi
   • Makoto Naganuma
   • Takashi Shimoyama

   Pages: 740 - 746

5. Reduced medical costs achieved after elective oncological colorectal surgery by early feeding and fewer scheduled examinations

   • Hiroyuki Aihara
   • Yutaka J. Kawamura
   • Fumio Konishi

   Pages: 747 - 750

6. Role of a novel oncogenic protein, gankyrin, in hepatocyte proliferation

   • Akio Iwai
   • Hiroyuki Marusawa
   • Tsutomu Chiba

   Pages: 751 - 758

7. Surgical management of cystic hepatic neoplasms

   • Seikan Hai
   • Kazuhiro Hirohashi
   • Hiroaki Kinoshita

   Pages: 759 - 764

8. Relaxant effect of omeprazole and lansoprazole in guinea pig gallbladder muscle strips in vitro

   • Cengiz Aydin
   • Bülent Sarac
   • Yusuf Sarioglu

   Pages: 765 - 771

9. Change of acute hepatitis B transmission routes in Japan

   • Shouko Arima
   • Kojiro Michitaka
   • Morikazu Onji

   Rapid communication Pages: 772 - 775

10. Multiple esophagogastric granular cell tumors

    • Hiroshi Maekawa
    • Takeo Maekawa
    • Michio Matsumoto

    Case report Pages: 776 - 780

11. Adenocarcinoma arising in a tubular duplication of the jejunum

    • Nobuya Kusunoki
    • Yasuhide Shimada
    • Sakan Maeda

    Case report Pages: 781 - 785

12. Adenosquamous carcinoma of the jejunum

    • Tsuneya Wada
    • Kiyoshi Mizuno
    • Makoto Itoh

    Case report Pages: 786 - 790

13. Cronkhite-Canada syndrome with colon cancer, portal thrombosis, high titer of antinuclear antibodies, and membranous glomerulonephritis

    • Yoji Takeuchi
    • Masahide Yoshikawa
    • Hiroshi Fukui

    Case report Pages: 791 - 795

14. A severe hepatitis flare in an HBV-HCV coinfected patient during combination therapy with Α-interferon and ribavirin

    • Kendal Yalcin
    • Halil Degertekin
    • Nihal Kilinc

    Case report Pages: 796 - 800

15. Small-cell carcinoma manifesting systemic lymphadenopathy combined with adenocarcinoma in the gallbladder: aggressiveness and sensitivity to chemotherapy

    • Hirotaka Okamoto
    • Kazuo Miura
    • Yoshiro Matsumoto

    Case report Pages: 801 - 805

16. Role and side-effects of TPMT polymorphisms of 6-MP and azathioprine in the treatment of steroid-resistant and -dependent ulcerative colitis

    • Hitoshi Asakura

    Editorial Pages: 806 - 809

17. How does adenosquamous carcinoma arise in the small intestine?

    • Tadahisa Teramoto
    • Hitoshi Kawamata
    • Takahiro Fujimori

    Editorial Pages: 810 - 811

18. Endosocopic abnormalities in a Japanese patient with collagenous colitis

    • Shigeru Sato
    • Toshiyuki Matsui
    • Tatsurou Nishida

    Letters to the editor Pages: 812 - 813

19. Depressed-type, early duodenal carcinoma (carcinoma in situ) treated by endoscopic mucosal resection

    • Makoto Sanomura
    • Shinji Tanaka
    • Kazuaki Chayama

    Letters to the editor Pages: 813 - 815

20. Japan's contribution to clinical research in gastroenterology and hepatology

    • Kenji Maeda
    • Mahbubur Rahman
    • Tsuguya Fukui

    Special report Pages: 816 - 819