931-935
Intestinal Disorders, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Immunology, And Microbiology
Quality-of-life results of double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of mesalamine in patients with Crohn's disease
John W. Singleton, Stephen Hanauer and Malcolm Robinson
936-942
Intestinal Disorders, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Immunology, And Microbiology
Topical nicotine protects rat gastric mucosa against ASA-induced damage a role for mucosal fluid secretion in cytoprotection
Carlo A. Fallone and Gerald P. Morris
943-948
Intestinal Disorders, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Immunology, And Microbiology
Effect of olsalazine on sodium-dependent bile acid transport in rat ileum
Anupama Chawla, Peter I. Karl, Rosandra N. Reich, Gopal Narasimhan and Gregory A. Michaud, et al.
949-959
Intestinal Disorders, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Immunology, And Microbiology
Elevation of interleukin-6 in inflammatory bowel disease is macrophage- and epithelial cell-dependent
Kazuo Kusugami, Atsushi Fukatsu, Mitsune Tanimoto, Masataka Shinoda and Jun-Ichi Haruta, et al.
960-966
Intestinal Disorders, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Immunology, And Microbiology
Changes in intestinal tunica muscularis following dietary fiber feeding in rats
A morphometric study using image analysis
A. Stark, A. Nyska, A. Zuckerman and Z. Madar
967-975
Intestinal Disorders, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Immunology, And Microbiology
Uptake and translocation of microparticles in small intestine
Morphology and quantification of particle distribution
G. M. Hodges, E. A. Carr, R. A. Hazzard and K. E. Carr
976-982
Intestinal Disorders, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Immunology, And Microbiology
Passive elastic wall properties in isolated guinea pig small intestine
J. H. Storkholm, G. E. Villadsen, S. L. Jensen and H. Gregersen
983-985
Intestinal Disorders, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Immunology, And Microbiology
A study of irritable bowel syndrome diagnosed by manning criteria in an African population
I. O. Olubuyide, F. Olawuyi and A. A. Fasanmade
986-995
Intestinal Disorders, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Immunology, And Microbiology
Functional bowel disorders
A multicenter comparison of health status and development of illness severity index
Douglas A. Drossman, Zhiming Li, Brenda B. Toner, Nicholas E. Diamant and Francis H. Creed, et al.
996-1004
Gastrointestinal Oncology
DNA ploidy and proliferating cell nuclear antigen in colonic adenomas and adenocarcinomas
Tatsuo Tomita
1005-1012
Gastrointestinal Oncology
Role of SPan-1 antigen in adhesion of human colon cancer cells to vascular endothelium
Nobuya Yamada, Yong-Suk Chung, Tetsuji Sawada, Masahiro Okuno and Michio Sowa
1013-1014
Gastrointestinal Oncology
Letter to the Editor
Haitao Yang, Xiantang Li, Zhimin Xu and Dianyuan Zhou
1015-1023
Motility, Nerve-Gut Interactions, Hormones, And Receptors
Cecum of guinea pig is a reservoir and sigmoid is a high-resistance conduit
Wolfgang Lange, Konrad Schulze-Delrieu, Heike Lange, Siroos Shirazi and Gerd Lepsien
1024-1034
Motility, Nerve-Gut Interactions, Hormones, And Receptors
Effects of enteral feedback inhibition on motility, luminal flow, and absorption of nutrients in proximal gut of minipigs
Andreas Huge, Eckhard Weber and Hans-Jörg Ehrlein
1035-1038
Motility, Nerve-Gut Interactions, Hormones, And Receptors
Postischemic intestinal motility in rat is inversely correlated to length of ischemia
Anin vivo animal model
Raphael Udassin, Dan Eimerl, Jochanan Schiffman and Yuval Haskel
1039
Motility, Nerve-Gut Interactions, Hormones, And Receptors
Letter to the Editor
Anastasios A. Mihas
1040
Motility, Nerve-Gut Interactions, Hormones, And Receptors
Letter to the Editor
Mitchell S. Cappell and Nagy Mikhail
1041-1044
Liver: Infectious, Infiammatory, And Metabolic Disorders
Arterioportal fistula following liver biopsy
Three cases occurring in liver transplant recipients
Nicolas Jabbour, Jorge Reyes, Albert Zajko, Bakr Nour and Andreas G. Tzakis, et al.
1045-1053
Liver: Infectious, Infiammatory, And Metabolic Disorders
Chemiluminescent measurement of increased free radical formation after ischemia/reperfusion
Mechanisms of free radical formation in the liver
Frederick A. Nunes, Chellappa Kumar, Britton Chance and Clifford A. Brass
1054-1059
Liver: Infectious, Infiammatory, And Metabolic Disorders
A simple method for ascites concentration and reinfusion
Mauro Borzio, Marco Romagnoni, Giuseppe Sorgato, Savino Bruno and Franco Borzio, et al.
1060-1064
Liver: Infectious, Infiammatory, And Metabolic Disorders
Increased renal susceptibility to gentamicin in the rat with obstructive jaundice
Role of lipid peroxidation
Kazuo Tajiri, Happei Miyakawa, Fumiaki Marumo and Chifumi Sato
1065-1068
Liver: Infectious, Infiammatory, And Metabolic Disorders
Choledocholithiasis in patients with normal serum liver enzymes
Donna E. Goldman and Charles F. Gholson
1069-1073
Liver: Infectious, Inflammatory, And Metabolic Disorders
Primary biliary cirrhosis-autoimmune hepatitis overlap syndrome
Corticoresistance and effective treatment by cyclosporine A
Jean-Charles Duclos-Vallée, Antoine Hadengue, Nathalie Ganne-Carrié, Edith Robin and Claude Degott, et al.
1074-1082
Esophageal, Gastric, And Duodenal Disorders
Ileal release of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)
Association with inhibition of gastric acid secretion in humans
Peter Layer, Jens Juul Holst, Daniel Grandt and Harald Goebell
1083-1086
Esophageal, Gastric, And Duodenal Disorders
Gastric juice ammonia vs CLO test for diagnosis ofHelicobacter pylori infection
Dae Hyun Yang, Hee Seung Bom, Young Eun Joo, Sung Kyu Choi and Jong Sun Rew, et al.
1087-1092
Esophageal, Gastric, And Duodenal Disorders
An endoscopic study on relationship betweenHelicobacter pylori infection and endoscopic gastric ulcer scars
Nobuhiro Sakaki, Kumiko Momma, Yoshiya Yamada, Naoto Egawa and Junichi Ishiwata
1093-1097
Esophageal, Gastric, And Duodenal Disorders
Chronic cough and hoarseness in patients with severe gastroesophageal reflux disease
Diagnosis and response to therapy
J. Patrick Waring, Leonel Lacayo, John Hunter, Ellen Katz and Barbara Suwak
1098-1104
Esophageal, Gastric, And Duodenal Disorders
Clinical characteristics and natural history of symptomatic but not excess gastroesophageal reflux
K. C. Trimble, S. Douglas, A. Pryde and R. C. Heading
1105-1111
Esophageal, Gastric, And Duodenal Disorders
Discriminant analysis of factors distinguishing patients with functional dyspepsia from patients with duodenal ulcer
Significance of somatization
Ingvard Wilhelmsen, Tone Tangen Haug, Holger Ursin and Arnold Berstad
1112-1117
Esophageal, Gastric, And Duodenal Disorders
Tobacco cigarette smoke attenuates duodenal ulcer margin hyperemia in the rat
Comparison of IAP clearance and hydrogen gas clearance techniques for measurements of gastrointestinal blood flow
Fumihiro Iwata, Oscar U. Scremin and Felix W. Leung
1118-1124
Esophageal, Gastric, And Duodenal Disorders
Aggravation of gastric mucosal lesions in rat stomach by tobacco cigarette smoke
Fumihiro Iwata, Xiang-Yang Zhang and Felix W. Leung
1125-1131
Esophageal, Gastric, And Duodenal Disorders
Misoprostol coadministered with diclofenac for prevention of gastroduodenal ulcers
A one-year study
Naurang M. Agrawal, Hilaire E. J. M. van Kerckhove, Lorri J. Erhardt and G. Steven Geis
1132-1139
Esophageal, Gastric, And Duodenal Disorders
Roles of hepatocyte growth factor and its receptor in gastric mucosa
A cell biological and molecular biological study
Shingo Tsuji, Sunao Kawano, Masahiko Tsujii, Hideyuki Fusamoto and Takenobu Kamada
1140-1146
Esophageal, Gastric, And Duodenal Disorders
Ketotifen and nitroxides decrease capsaicin-augmented ethanol-induced gastric damage in rats
F. Karmeli, R. Eliakim, E. Okon and D. Rachmilewitz
1147-1148
Esophageal, Gastric, And Duodenal Disorders
Use of thalidomide in treatment and maintenance of idiopathic esophageal ulcers in HIV+ individuals
Scott M. Naum, Peter J. Molloy, Robert J. Kania, Janet McGarr and David H. Van Thiel
1149-1156
Pancreatic And Biliary Disorders
Abnormal sphincter of oddi response to cholecystokinin in postcholecystectomy syndrome patients with irritable bowel syndrome
The irritable sphincter
Peter R. Evans, John F. Dowsett, Young-Tae Bak, Yiu-Kay Chan and John E. Kellow
1157-1164
Pancreatic And Biliary Disorders
Gallbladder mucosal protein secretion during development of experimental cholecystitis
Donald L. Kaminski, Yashwant G. Deshpande, Al Li, Frances Dysart and Mihir Nag
1165-1166
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