1. The 13th International Symposium on Pediatric Surgical Research

   • Prem Puri

   EDITORIAL Pages: 253 - 253

2. Polyunsaturated fatty acids influence neonatal monocyte survival

   • B. Sweeney
   • P. Puri
   • D. J. Reen

   MAIN TOPIC Pages: 254 - 258

3. Effect of low fat diet on lipid absorption and fatty-acid transport following bowel resection

   • I. Sukhotnik
   • A. Semih Gork
   • C. M. Harmon

   MAIN TOPIC Pages: 259 - 264

4. Effect of probiotics on enterocyte bacterial translocation in vitro

   • A. F. Mattar
   • R. A. Drongowski
   • C. M. Harmon

   MAIN TOPIC Pages: 265 - 268

5. The effect of phospholipids and fatty acids on tight-junction permeability and bacterial translocation

   • T. Sawai
   • R. A. Drongowski
   • C. M. Harmon

   MAIN TOPIC Pages: 269 - 274

6. Effect of secretory immunoglobulin A on bacterial translocation in an enterocyte-lymphocyte co-culture model

   • T. Sawai
   • N. Goldstone
   • C. M. Harmon

   MAIN TOPIC Pages: 275 - 279

7. Tissue antioxidant capacity and bacterial translocation under total parenteral nutrition

   • I. Eizaguirre
   • L. Aldámiz
   • G. Perez Nanclares

   MAIN TOPIC Pages: 280 - 283

8. Gene expression of insulin-like growth factor-1 and epidermal growth factor is downregulated in the heart of rats with nitrofen-induced diaphragmatic hernia

   • H. Teramoto
   • P. Puri

   MAIN TOPIC Pages: 284 - 287

9. Does the developing liver inhibit early lung growth in congenital diaphragmatic hernia?

   • E. C. Jesudason
   • M. G. Connell
   • P. D. Losty

   MAIN TOPIC Pages: 288 - 293

10. Neural crest-derived defects in experimental congenital diaphragmatic hernia

    • J. Yu
    • S. Gonzalez
    • J. A. Tovar

    MAIN TOPIC Pages: 294 - 298

11. Cell-adhesion molecules and fibroblast growth factor signalling in Hirschsprung's disease

    • A. Yoneda
    • Y. Wang
    • P. Puri

    MAIN TOPIC Pages: 299 - 303

12. Assessment of protein gene product 9.5 as a marker of neural crest-derived precursor cells in the developing enteric nervous system

    • E. L. Sidebotham
    • M. N. Woodward
    • D. H. Edgar

    MAIN TOPIC Pages: 304 - 307

13. Angiotensin-converting enzyme genotype distribution in familial vesicoureteral reflux

    • A. Yoneda
    • T. Oue
    • P. Puri

    MAIN TOPIC Pages: 308 - 311

14. Enlargement of the processus vaginalis during testicular descent in rats

    • M. Ramasamy
    • N. Di Pilla
    • J. M. Hutson

    MAIN TOPIC Pages: 312 - 315

15. Evaluation of developing rat testis by phosporus 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy and DNA flowcytometry

    • M. Srinivas
    • M. Degaonkar
    • D. K. Mitra

    MAIN TOPIC Pages: 316 - 320

16. Application of a drug delivery system in a novel rat model of chronic hyperendotoxemia

    • T. Kosumi
    • N. Usui
    • I. Kaetu

    MAIN TOPIC Pages: 321 - 325

17. Do gastrostomies close spontaneously? A review of the fate of gastrostomies following successful renal transplantation in children

    • B. W. Davies
    • A. R. Watson
    • C. H. Rance

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 326 - 328

18. Surgical treatment of cloacal anomalies

    • Z. D. Krstic
    • M. Lukac
    • D. Varinac

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 329 - 333

19. The American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Surgery New International Affiliate Membership

    ANNOUNCEMENTS Pages: 334 - 334