1. Japanese consensus guidelines for management of autoimmune pancreatitis: I. Concept and diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis

   • Kazuichi Okazaki
   • Shigeyuki Kawa
   • Working members of Research Committee for Intractable Pancreatic Disease and Japan Pancreas Society

   Review 20 January 2010 Pages: 249 - 265

   

2. The role of infection in the aetiology of inflammatory bowel disease

   • Richard Hansen
   • John M. Thomson
   • Georgina L. Hold

   Review 15 January 2010 Pages: 266 - 276

   

3. Colitis causes delay in puberty in female mice out of proportion to changes in leptin and corticosterone

   • Mark D. DeBoer
   • Yongli Li
   • Steven Cohn

   Original Article—Alimentary Tract 14 January 2010 Pages: 277 - 284

   

4. Clinical trial: rebamipide promotes gastric ulcer healing by proton pump inhibitor after endoscopic submucosal dissection—a randomized controlled study

   • Tomohiro Kato
   • Hiroshi Araki
   • Hisataka Moriwaki

   Original Article—Alimentary Tract 03 December 2009 Pages: 285 - 290

   

5. Pancreatic acinar metaplasia in the distal oesophagus and the gastric cardia: prevalence, predictors and relation to GORD

   • Johan Johansson
   • Hans-Olof Håkansson
   • Olof Nyrén

   Original Article—Alimentary Tract 15 December 2009 Pages: 291 - 299

   

6. The traditional Japanese medicine Rikkunshito increases the plasma level of ghrelin in humans and mice

   • Tomoaki Matsumura
   • Makoto Arai
   • Osamu Yokosuka

   Original Article—Alimentary Tract 10 December 2009 Pages: 300 - 307

   

7. Natural course of the remnant hepatic functional reserve as estimated by technetium-99m-galactosyl human serum albumin scintigraphy after a hepatectomy

   • Yoshinori Shimizu
   • Takeshi Aoki
   • Masahiko Murakami

   Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract 07 November 2009 Pages: 308 - 316

   

8. Expression of LYVE-1 in sinusoidal endothelium is reduced in chronically inflamed human livers

   • Junko Arimoto
   • Yoshihiro Ikura
   • Makiko Ueda

   Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract 12 November 2009 Pages: 317 - 325

   

9. Clinical significance of alanine aminotransferase levels and the effect of ursodeoxycholic acid in hemodialysis patients with chronic hepatitis C

   • Chika Nishida
   • Hirofumi Uto
   • Hirohito Tsubouchi

   Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract 05 November 2009 Pages: 326 - 334

   

10. Efficacy of camostat mesilate against dyspepsia associated with non-alcoholic mild pancreatic disease

    • Jin Kan Sai
    • Masafumi Suyama
    • Sumio Watanabe

    Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract 30 October 2009 Pages: 335 - 341

    

11. Hepatic encephalopathy: you should only comment on what you have actually measured

    • Sara Montagnese
    • Sami Schiff
    • Piero Amodio

    Letter to the Editor 10 December 2009 Pages: 342 - 343

12. Reply to the letter by S. Montagnese et al. regarding "TIPS for refractory ascites"

    • Ulrich Thalheimer
    • Andrew K. Burroughs

    Letter to the Editor 11 December 2009 Pages: 344 - 345

13. Can an incomplete stent expansion modulate the effects of TIPS?

    • Oliviero Riggio
    • Stefania Angeloni
    • Plinio Rossi

    Letter to the Editor 05 January 2010 Pages: 346 - 347

14. Reply to the letter by O. Riggio et al. regarding “TIPS for refractory ascites”

    • Ulrich Thalheimer
    • Andrew K. Burroughs

    Letter to the Editor 05 January 2010 Pages: 348 - 348

15. Proper definitions of MRI contrast enhancement in liver tumors

    • Yicheng Ni
    • Feng Chen
    • Yansheng Jiang

    Letter to the Editor 15 December 2009 Pages: 349 - 350

16. Reply to the letter by Y. Ni et al. regarding ‘‘Expression of OATP1B3’’

    • Etsuro Hatano
    • Masato Narita
    • Shinji Uemoto

    Letter to the Editor 22 December 2009 Pages: 351 - 352

17. Helicobacter pylori status and endoscopic findings in Japan

    • Levent Filik

    Letter to the Editor 12 December 2009 Pages: 353 - 353