1. Double-balloon endoscopy: past, present, and future

   • Keijiro Sunada
   • Hironori Yamamoto

   Review 22 January 2009 Pages: 1 - 12

2. Narrow-band imaging of the gastrointestinal tract

   • Manabu Muto
   • Takahiro Horimatsu
   • Tsutomu Chiba

   Review 22 January 2009 Pages: 13 - 25

3. Probiotics and immunity

   • Andrea T. Borchers
   • Carlo Selmi
   • M. Eric Gershwin

   Review 22 January 2009 Pages: 26 - 46

4. Sustained epithelial proliferation in a functionally irreversible fundic mucosa after Helicobacter pylori eradication

   • Katsunori Iijima
   • Tomoyuki Koike
   • Tooru Shimosegawa

   Alimentary Tract 22 January 2009 Pages: 47 - 55

5. Extracellular adenosine induces apoptosis in Caco-2 human colonic cancer cells by activating caspase-9/-3 via A_2a adenosine receptors

   • Yoshiyuki Yasuda
   • Masaru Saito
   • Tomoyuki Nishizaki

   Alimentary Tract 22 January 2009 Pages: 56 - 65

6. Does Helicobacter pylori-induced inflammation of gastric mucosa determine the severity of symptoms in functional dyspepsia?

   • Ebru Turkkan
   • Ihsan Uslan
   • Seref Yuksel

   Alimentary Tract 22 January 2009 Pages: 66 - 70

7. Epinephrine sprayed on the papilla for prevention of post-ERCP pancreatitis

   • Mitsunobu Matsushita
   • Hiroshi Takakuwa
   • Kazuichi Okazaki

   Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract 22 January 2009 Pages: 71 - 75

8. Portosystemic shunts in a large cohort of patients with liver cirrhosis: detection rate and clinical relevance

   • Enrico Maria Zardi
   • Valentina Uwechie
   • Antonella Afeltra

   Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract 22 January 2009 Pages: 76 - 83

9. Adjuvant radiotherapy for pancreatic cancer is associated with a survival benefit primarily in stage IIB patients

   • John S. Moody
   • Stephen M. Sawrie
   • James A. Bonner

   Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract 22 January 2009 Pages: 84 - 91