Volume 48, Issue 1, January 2013

ISSN: 0944-1174 (Print) 1435-5922 (Online)

In this issue (15 articles)

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    Review

    Treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus infection in Japan: update on therapy and guidelines

    Kazuaki Chayama, C. Nelson Hayes, Waka Ohishi… Pages 1-12
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    Review

    Clinical utility of quantitative HBsAg in natural history and nucleos(t)ide analogue treatment of chronic hepatitis B: new trick of old dog

    Tai-Chung Tseng, Jia-Horng Kao Pages 13-21
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    Review

    Host factors determining the efficacy of hepatitis C treatment

    Wan-Long Chuang, Ming-Lung Yu Pages 22-30
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  4. Review

    Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for Crohn’s disease, integrated with formal consensus of experts in Japan

    Fumiaki Ueno, Toshiyuki Matsui, Takayuki Matsumoto… Pages 31-72
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    Original Article—Alimentary Tract

    Genetic polymorphisms of SCN10A are associated with functional dyspepsia in Japanese subjects

    Tomiyasu Arisawa, Tomomitsu Tahara, Hisakazu Shiroeda… Pages 73-80
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    Original Article—Alimentary Tract

    Eosinophilic esophagitis in children and adolescents: epidemiology, clinical presentation and seasonal variation

    Serge Alexander Sorser, Mohammed Barawi, Karen Hagglund… Pages 81-85
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    Original Article—Alimentary Tract

    MicroRNA-146a negatively regulates PTGS2 expression induced by Helicobacter pylori in human gastric epithelial cells

    Zhen Liu, Di Wang, Yongliang Hu, Guoyong Zhou, Chaohui Zhu… Pages 86-92
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    Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract

    Chronic HCV infection was associated with severe insulin resistance and mild atherosclerosis: a population-based study in an HCV hyperendemic area

    Ichiro Miyajima, Takumi Kawaguchi, Ako Fukami, Yumiko Nagao… Pages 93-100
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    Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract

    Expression of gremlin 1 correlates with increased angiogenesis and progression-free survival in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors

    Ming-Huang Chen, Yi-Chen Yeh, Yi-Ming Shyr, Yi-Hua Jan… Pages 101-108
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    Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract

    Clinical features of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with autoimmune hepatitis in Japan

    Hiromasa Ohira, Kazumichi Abe, Atsushi Takahashi… Pages 109-114
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    Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract

    Intermittent clamping is superior to ischemic preconditioning and its effect is more marked with shorter clamping cycles in the rat liver

    Yasuji Seyama, Hiroshi Imamura, Yoshinori Inagaki… Pages 115-124
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    Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract

    IL-23R polymorphisms, HBV infection, and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in a high-risk Chinese population

    Yan Xu, Yao Liu, Shandong Pan, Li Liu, Jibin Liu… Pages 125-131
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    Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract

    Loss of heterozygosity and methylation of multiple tumor suppressor genes on chromosome 3 in hepatocellular carcinoma

    Xiaoying Zhang, Hiu Ming Li, Zhiyan Liu, Gengyin Zhou… Pages 132-143
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  14. Letter to the Editor

    Family history in early-onset inflammatory bowel disease

    Anna Monica Bianco, Valentina Zanin, Lorenzo Monasta… Page 144
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    Letter to the Editor

    Reply to the letter by A. M. Bianco et al. regarding ‘‘Effects of family history on IBD characteristics in Japanese patients’’

    Erika Kuwahara, Keiko Asakura, Yuji Nishiwaki, Nagamu Inoue… Pages 145-146
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