1. Timing of Prophylactic Surgery in Prevention of Diverticulitis Recurrence: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

   • Robert J. Richards
   • James K. Hammitt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1903 - 1908

2. Lack of Evidence for Involvement of Fetal Microchimerism in Pathogenesis of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

   • Maximilian Schöniger-Hekele
   • Christian Müller
   • Peter Ferenci

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1909 - 1914

3. TT-Virus Infection in Japanese General Population and in Hemodialysis Patients

   • Yoko Kanamoto-Tanaka
   • Norihiro Furusyo
   • Jun Hayashi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1915 - 1920

4. CASE REPORT: Fatal Progressive Hepatic Necrosis Associated with Lamotrigine Treatment: A Case Report and Literature Review

   • Kerith Overstreet
   • Christopher Costanza
   • Eliezer Masliah

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1921 - 1925

5. Liver Regeneration Is Not Altered in Patients with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) When Compared to Chronic Hepatitis C Infection with Similar Grade of Inflammation

   • Osamah Hussein
   • Sergio Szvalb
   • Nimer Assy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1926 - 1931

6. Retreatment of High-Dose Interferon (5 MU Daily) Nonresponders with High-Dose IFN + Ribavirin

   • David H. Van Thiel
   • Kotayya Kondaveeti
   • Lois Friedlander

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1932 - 1935

7. Preservation of Portal Pressure Improves Growth and Metabolic Profile in the Male Portacaval-Shunted Rat

   • Srinivasan Dasarathy
   • Kevin D. Mullen
   • Arthur J. McCullough

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1936 - 1942

8. An Attempt to Decrease Ammonia Levels After Portacaval Anastomosis in Dogs: Hepatic Periarterial Neurectomy

   • Sezai Yilmaz
   • Vedat Kirimlioglu
   • Musa Akoglu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1943 - 1952

9. Liver Pathology and Cell Proliferation After Octreotide Administration Following Partial Hepatectomy in Rats: An Experimental Study

   • Efstathios Papalampros
   • Evangelos S. Felekouras
   • Elias Bastounis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1953 - 1958

10. CASE REPORT: Reye's Syndrome in a 17-Year-Old Male: Is This Disease Really Disappearing?

    • Eduardo B.V. da Silveira
    • Karen Young
    • Nadia Ameen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1959 - 1961

11. CASE REPORT: Visceral Varicella Zoster After Bone Marrow Transplantation: An Obscure Cause of an “Acute Abdomen”

    • Colm J. O'Loughlin
    • Umaprasanna S. Karnam
    • Jamie S. Barkin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1962 - 1964

12. Quality of Life Outcomes in Congenital Chronic Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction

    • Lenore Schwankovsky
    • Hayat Mousa
    • Paul E. Hyman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1965 - 1968

13. Small Doses of Melatonin Increase Intestinal Motility in Rats

    • Filippo Drago
    • Silvia Macauda
    • Soudabeh Salehi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1969 - 1974

14. Effect of Nitric Oxide on Gallbladder Motility in Patients with Acalculous Biliary Pain: A Cholescintigraphic Study

    • László Madácsy
    • Borbála Velõsy
    • János Lonovics

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1975 - 1981

15. REVIEW: How Should We Screen for Colorectal Cancer?

    • Solomon Singh
    • Jamie S. Barkin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1982 - 1983

16. Progastrin and Cyclooxygenase-2 in Colorectal Cancer

    • Peter C. Konturek
    • Władysław Bielanski
    • Eckhart G. Hahn

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1984 - 1991

17. Influence of Intraperitoneal Therapy with Mitomycin C Adsorbed on Activated Carbon on Anastomotic and Wound Healing in Rats

    • Marc Jansen
    • Petra Lynen Jansen
    • Volker Schumpelick

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1992 - 1997

18. CASE REPORT: Graft-Versus-Host-Like Colitis and Malignant Thymoma

    • Philip W. Lowry
    • John D. Myers
    • Jonathan E. Clain

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1998 - 2001

19. CASE REPORT: Remote Development of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis Type B Serologically Cured for HBs Antigenemia with Long-Standing Normalization of ALT Values

    • Shogo Okoshi
    • Masato Igarashi
    • Isao Kurosaki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2002 - 2006

20. Temporal Changes in Colonic Vascular Architecture and Inflammatory Mediator Levels in Animal Models of Colitis

    • Caroline B. Appleyard
    • Adrian Alvarez
    • William H. Percy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2007 - 2014

21. CASE REPORT: Sumatriptan-Associated Ischemic Colitis

    • Mohit Naik
    • Rajendra Potluri
    • George L. Arnold

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2015 - 2016

22. CASE REPORT: Mesenteric Venous Thrombosis Causing Jejunal Stricture: Secondary to Hypercoagulable States and Primary Portal Hypertension

    • S. Chandra
    • U. Dutta
    • K. Singh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2017 - 2019

23. Feasibility of and Interest in Combined Endoscopic Ultrasonography and Biliary Drainage in Unexplained Acute Biliopancreatic Disorders

    • Pierre-Edouard Queneau
    • Serge Zeeh
    • Jean-Philippe Miguet

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2020 - 2024

24. Impaired Alveolar Gas Exchange in Acute Pancreatitis

    • Teresa Salomone
    • Patrizia Tosi
    • Lucio Gullo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2025 - 2028

25. Relative Effects of Dihydropyridine L-Type Calcium Channel Antagonism on Biliary, Duodenal, and Vascular Tissues: An In Vivo and In Vitro Analysis in Australian Brush-Tailed Possum

    • A.G. Craig
    • A. Tottrup
    • G.T.P. Saccone

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2029 - 2036

26. A New Therapeutic Approach for Treatment of Hydatid Cysts of the Spleen

    • Necati Örmeci
    • Irfan Soykan
    • Mustafa Sarioglu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2037 - 2044

27. Colonic Tuberculosis

    • Eduardo Villanueva Sáenz
    • Paulino Martínez Hernández Magro
    • Miguel Valdés Ovalle

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2045 - 2048

28. Effects of Short-Chain Fatty Acid-Supplemented Total Parenteral Nutrition on Intestinal Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Abundance

    • L.A. Milo
    • K.A. Reardon
    • K.A. Tappenden

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2049 - 2055

29. Differential Susceptibility of Multidrug Resistance Protein-1 Deficient Mice to DSS and TNBS-Induced Colitis

    • Tessa Ten Hove
    • Paul Drillenburg
    • Sander J.H. van Deventer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2056 - 2063

30. Local Release of Human Neutrophil Lipocalin (HNL), IL-8, and TNF-α Is Decreased as Response to Topical Prednisolone Treatment in Distal Ulcerative Colitis and Proctitis

    • Per Sangfelt
    • Marie Carlson
    • Yngve Raab

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2064 - 2069

31. Nuclear Factor-κB and TNF-α Mediate Gastric Ulceration Induced by Phorbol Myristate Acetate

    • Tetsu Takeuchi
    • Soichiro Miura
    • Hiromasa Ishii

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2070 - 2078

32. Seroreactivities Against Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis p35 and p36 Antigens in Crohn's Disease Patients

    • Ira Shafran
    • Christopher Piromalli
    • Fouad A.K. El-Zaatari

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2079 - 2081

33. Psychological Dimensions of Celiac Disease: Toward an Integrated Approach

    • Carolina Ciacci
    • Alessandro Iavarone
    • Antonio De Rosa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2082 - 2087

34. Heterogeneity of HPLC Profiles of Human Class II MHC-Bound Peptides Isolated from Intestine with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

    • Nobuhide Oshitani
    • Fumihiko Hato
    • Tetsuo Kuroki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2088 - 2094

35. Sandostatin Impairs Postresection Intestinal Adaptation in a Rat Model of Short Bowel Syndrome

    • Igor Sukhotnik
    • Kamal Khateeb
    • Eitan Shiloni

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2095 - 2102

36. CASE REPORT: Primary Psoas Abscess

    • Sunita N. Agrawal
    • Amit J. Dwivedi
    • Mohammed Khan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2103 - 2105

37. LETTER: Endoscopic Prevalence of Whipworm Infestation in Northern Italy

    • Renato Sablich
    • Alessandra Vitalba
    • Ennio Guido

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2106 - 2107

38. Yield of Intestinal Metaplasia in Patients with Suspected Short-Segment Barrett's Esophagus (SSBE) on Repeat Endoscopy

    • Thomas F. Jones
    • Prateek Sharma
    • Allan P. Weston

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2108 - 2111

39. CASE REPORT: Successful Treatment of Dysphagia in Paget's Disease of the Bone

    • Shyam Varadarajulu
    • Santosh Reddy
    • K. Mark Payne

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2112 - 2115

40. COX and NOS Isoforms Involved in Acid-Induced Duodenal Bicarbonate Secretion in Rats

    • Koji Takeuchi
    • Shigeru Kagawa
    • Shoji Kawauchi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2116 - 2124

41. Maturation-Associated Increase in Sensitivity of Cultured Guinea Pig Gastric Pit Cells to Hydrogen Peroxide

    • Wataru Tomisato
    • Tatsuya Hoshino
    • Tohru Mizushima

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2125 - 2133

42. CASE REPORT: Successful Surgery Using Recombinant Factor VIIa for Recurrent, Idiopathic Nonulcer Duodenal Bleeding in a Patient with Glanzmann's Thrombasthenia

    • Henk R. van Buuren
    • Jenne J. Wielenga

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2134 - 2136

43. Book Reviews

    • Paul D. Webster III

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2137 - 2138