Evaluation of endoscopic injection sclerotherapy with and without simultaneous ligation for the treatment of esophageal varices Yoshiyuki NishikawaYasushi HosokawaJun Tomoda Pages: 159 - 162
Functional muscarinic m3 receptor expressed in gastric cancer cells stimulates tyrosine phosphorylation and MAP kinase Makoto KodairaMasayoshi KajimuraEizo Kaneko Pages: 163 - 171
Epalrestat prevents the decrease in gastric mucosal blood flow and protects the gastric mucosa in streptozotocin diabetic rats Hitoshi SuzukiTooru ShimosegawaTakayoshi Toyota Pages: 172 - 177
Naloxone is protective against indomethacin-induced gastric damage in cholestatic rats Ahmad Reza DehpourAli Reza ManiMoslem Bahadori Pages: 178 - 181
Changes in fecal fat excretion from allo-intestine transplanted rats after discontinuance of immunosuppressive agents Tsuyoshi SaitoEiji KobayashiMichio Miyata Pages: 182 - 188
Cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 immunoreactivity and relationship to p53 and Ki-67 expression in colorectal cancer Kazuhiro SakumaTakahiro FujimoriAkira Terano Pages: 189 - 194
Serum iron and ferritin levels in patients with colorectal cancer in relation to the size, site, and disease stage of cancer Feng LiTeruyuki KishidaMasafumi Kobayashi Pages: 195 - 199
Absence of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis DNA in intestinal tissues from Crohn's disease by nested polymerase chain reaction Kosuke KanazawaYoichi HagaYutaka Yoshida Pages: 200 - 206
Compensatory response of colon tissue to dextran sulfate sodium-induced colitis Shiro NakanoSusumu OharaKyoko Hotta Pages: 207 - 214
Immunohistological study to determine the presence of pericryptal myofibroblasts and basement membrane in colorectal epithelial tumors Shingo HigakiMasahiro TadaKiwamu Okita Pages: 215 - 220
Clinical features of 89 patients with autoimmune hepatitis in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan Katsuhisa OmagariHideki KinoshitaShigeru Kohno Pages: 221 - 226
Association of hepatitis viruses with hepatocellular carcinoma in Thailand Pisit TangkijvanichPetra HirschYong Poovorawan Pages: 227 - 233
Transmission of and liver injury by TT virus in patients on maintenance hemodialysis Tomomasa OguchiEiji TanakaKendo Kiyosawa Pages: 234 - 240
Calcitriol for bone loss in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis Susumu ShiomiKyoko MasakiHironobu Ochi Pages: 241 - 245
Rapidly enlarging esophageal duplication cyst Atsunori NakaoNaoto UrushiharaNoriaki Tanaka Case report Pages: 246 - 249
Cardiac tamponade originating from primary gastric signet ring cell carcinoma Yoshio SakaiKeiji MinouchiTatsuho Sugimoto Pages: 250 - 252
Immunoblastic lymphadenopathy-like T-cell lymphoma complicated by multiple gastrointestinal involvement Toshimichi KanekiAkira KawashimaWataru Adachi Pages: 253 - 259
Rapid growth of residual colonic tumor after incomplete mucosal resection Keiji MatsudaTadahiko MasakiTetsuichiro Muto Pages: 260 - 263
Ileal varices associated with recurrent bleeding in a patient with liver cirrhosis Tsumugi OhtaniEiji KajiwaraKaoru Onoyama Pages: 264 - 268
Disappearance of serum HCV-RNA after short-term prednisolone therapy in a patient with chronic hepatitis C associated with autoimmune hepatitis-like serological manifestations Masahide YoshikawaMasahisa ToyoharaAkira Nakamura Pages: 269 - 274
Highly active antiretroviral therapy used to treat concurrent hepatitis B and human immunodeficiency virus infections Kazuki NagaiHiroo HosakaHiroko Nonaka Pages: 275 - 281
Posttraumatic intra-gallbladder hemorrhage in a patient with liver cirrhosis Manabu NishiwakiHiroshi AshidaTakehira Yamamura Pages: 282 - 285
Is stab with strangulation the fastest way to kill esophageal varices? Atsushi ToyonagaTadashi Iwao Editorial Pages: 286 - 287
Foreign body impaction in the duodenum Julian E. LosanoffKirien T. Kjossev Letter to the editor Pages: 294 - 295
