1. Host factors are important in determining clinical outcomes of Helicobacter pylori infection

   • Tsutomu Chiba
   • Hiroshi Seno
   • Kazuichi Okazaki

   Review Pages: 1 - 9

2. Novel pathophysiological concepts of inflammatory bowel disease

   • Toshifumi Hibi
   • Haruhiko Ogata

   Review Pages: 10 - 16

3. Antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis C: past, present, and future

   • Norio Hayashi
   • Tetsuo Takehara

   Review Pages: 17 - 27

4. Usefulness of electronic radial endoscopic color Doppler ultrasonography in esophageal varices: comparison with convex type

   • Takahiro Sato
   • Katsu Yamazaki
   • Toshihiro Suga

   OriginalPaper Pages: 28 - 33

5. Effect of cilostazol, a selective type-III phosphodiesterase inhibitor, on water-immersion stress-induced gastric mucosal injury in rats

   • Reina Ohba
   • Michiro Otaka
   • Sumio Watanabe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 34 - 40

6. Role of Helicobacter pylori infection and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use in bleeding peptic ulcers in Japan

   • Hibiki Ootani
   • Ryuichi Iwakiri
   • Kazuma Fujimoto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 46

7. Increased aggregation response of platelets in patients with inflammatory bowel disease

   • Akira Andoh
   • Takashi Yoshida
   • Yoshihide Fujiyama

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 54

8. Vulnerability of experimentally induced fatty liver to heat stress in rats

   • Hiromasa Inoue
   • Naomi Sameshima
   • Noriaki Ikeda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 61

9. Characteristics of rat bone marrow cells differentiated into a liver cell lineage and dynamics of the transplanted cells in the injured liver

   • Kazuo Okumoto
   • Takafumi Saito
   • Sumio Kawata

   OriginalPaper Pages: 62 - 69

10. Comparison of standard-dose and low-dose gemcitabine regimens in pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients: a prospective randomized trial

    • Hiroki Sakamoto
    • Masayuki Kitano
    • Masatoshi Kudo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 70 - 76

11. Acute onset of ulcerative colitis following an operation for sigmoid colon cancer

    • Mihoko Takakura
    • Naoko Mochizuki
    • Masanori Tanaka

    Case report Pages: 77 - 82

12. Gallbladder carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells

    • Tomotaka Akatsu
    • Kaori Kameyama
    • Masaki Kitajima

    Case report Pages: 83 - 87

13. Lymphoepithelial cyst of the cervical esophagus

    • Sinya Asami
    • Yoshio Naomoto
    • Noriaki Tanaka

    Letters to the editor Pages: 88 - 89

14. A cooperative effect of surgical stress-induced immunomodulation with the cessation of immunosuppression on hepatitis C virus elimination?

    • Masahide Yoshikawa
    • Masahisa Toyohara
    • Hiroshi Fukui

    Letters to the editor Pages: 89 - 90

15. Platelets in inflammatory bowel disease

    • Takayuki Matsumoto

    Editorial Pages: 91 - 92

16. Clinical application of bone marrow cell transplantation for liver diseases

    • Isao Sakaida

    Editorial Pages: 93 - 94