1. Helicobacter pylori and gut hormones

   • Hiroshi Kaneko
   • Toshihiro Konagaya
   • Kazuo Kusugami

   Review Pages: 77 - 86

2. Postprandial hypotension in elderly subjects: spectral analysis of heart rate variability and electrogastrograms

   • Ritsuko Kawaguchi
   • Masahiro Nomura
   • Susumu Ito

   Pages: 87 - 93

3. Expression of homeobox gene CDX2 precedes that of CDX1 during the progression of intestinal metaplasia

   • Akashi Eda
   • Hiroyuki Osawa
   • Kentaro Sugano

   Pages: 94 - 100

4. Detection of type B influenza virus genes from biopsied gastric mucosa

   • Yukiharu Hayase
   • Kiyotake Tobita
   • Hiroyuki Sato

   Pages: 101 - 105

5. The protective effect of catechin on gastric mucosal lesions in rats, and its hormonal mechanisms

   • Hideki Sato
   • Teruaki Matsui
   • Yasuyuki Arakawa

   Pages: 106 - 111

6. Propranolol ameliorates thrombocytopenia in patients with cirrhosis

   • Kenji Sakai
   • Tadashi Iwao
   • Michio Sata

   Pages: 112 - 118

7. Five days of ceftriaxone to treat spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in cirrhotic patients

   • Alex Vianey Callado França
   • Helena Maria Giordano
   • Elza Cotrim Soares

   Pages: 119 - 122

8. Recurrent nonocclusive mesenteric ischemia after resection of iliac artery aneurysm

   • Jun Kadono
   • Nobuo Hamada
   • Ryuzo Sakata

   Case report Pages: 123 - 128

9. Primary hepatic lymphoma in a patient with Sjögren's syndrome

   • Satoru Tsuruta
   • Munechika Enjoji
   • Hajime Nawata

   Case report Pages: 129 - 132

10. Autoimmune pancreatitis starting as a localized form

    • Yutaka Koga
    • Koji Yamaguchi
    • Masao Tanaka

    Case report Pages: 133 - 137

11. Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the liver producing parathyroid hormone-related protein

    • Takahito Saito
    • Kenichi Harada
    • Yasuni Nakanuma

    Case report Pages: 138 - 142

12. Successful endoscopic injection sclerotherapy for duodenal varices

    • Hiroshi Sato
    • Hirofumi Fujishiro
    • Tomonori Imaoka

    Letter to the editor Pages: 143 - 144

13. Interleukin-2-induced reversible hyperbilirubinemia and cholestasis in a patient with Gilbert's syndrome

    • Hüseyin Engin
    • Berna Çakmak Öksüzoğlu
    • Kadri Altundağ

    Letter to the editor Pages: 145 - 146

14. Key molecules in metaplastic gastritis: sequential analysis of CDX1/2 homeobox gene expression

    • Tsutomu Chiba
    • Hiroshi Seno

    Editorial Pages: 147 - 148

15. Marked improvement in the resolution of, and survival rates in, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

    • Kazuyuki Suzuki
    • Yasuhiro Takikawa

    Editorial Pages: 149 - 150