1. Treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus infection in Japan: update on therapy and guidelines

   • Kazuaki Chayama
   • C. Nelson Hayes
   • Yoshiiku Kawakami

   Review Open access 28 November 2012 Pages: 1 - 12

   

2. Clinical utility of quantitative HBsAg in natural history and nucleos(t)ide analogue treatment of chronic hepatitis B: new trick of old dog

   • Tai-Chung Tseng
   • Jia-Horng Kao

   Review Open access 24 October 2012 Pages: 13 - 21

   

3. Host factors determining the efficacy of hepatitis C treatment

   • Wan-Long Chuang
   • Ming-Lung Yu

   Review Open access 27 October 2012 Pages: 22 - 30

4. Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for Crohn’s disease, integrated with formal consensus of experts in Japan

   • Fumiaki Ueno
   • Toshiyuki Matsui
   • On Behalf of the Guidelines Project Group of the Research Group of Intractable Inflammatory Bowel Disease subsidized by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan and the Guidelines Committee of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology

   Review Open access 23 October 2012 Pages: 31 - 72

   

5. Genetic polymorphisms of SCN10A are associated with functional dyspepsia in Japanese subjects

   • Tomiyasu Arisawa
   • Tomomitsu Tahara
   • Tomoyuki Shibata

   Original Article—Alimentary Tract 23 May 2012 Pages: 73 - 80

   

6. Eosinophilic esophagitis in children and adolescents: epidemiology, clinical presentation and seasonal variation

   • Serge Alexander Sorser
   • Mohammed Barawi
   • Hernando Lyons

   Original Article—Alimentary Tract 23 May 2012 Pages: 81 - 85

   

7. MicroRNA-146a negatively regulates PTGS2 expression induced by Helicobacter pylori in human gastric epithelial cells

   • Zhen Liu
   • Di Wang
   • Quanming Zou

   Original Article—Alimentary Tract 15 June 2012 Pages: 86 - 92

   

8. Chronic HCV infection was associated with severe insulin resistance and mild atherosclerosis: a population-based study in an HCV hyperendemic area

   • Ichiro Miyajima
   • Takumi Kawaguchi
   • Michio Sata

   Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract 08 June 2012 Pages: 93 - 100

   

9. Expression of gremlin 1 correlates with increased angiogenesis and progression-free survival in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors

   • Ming-Huang Chen
   • Yi-Chen Yeh
   • Chi-Ying F. Huang

   Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract 16 June 2012 Pages: 101 - 108

   

10. Clinical features of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with autoimmune hepatitis in Japan

    • Hiromasa Ohira
    • Kazumichi Abe
    • Takafumi Ichida

    Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract 13 June 2012 Pages: 109 - 114

    

11. Intermittent clamping is superior to ischemic preconditioning and its effect is more marked with shorter clamping cycles in the rat liver

    • Yasuji Seyama
    • Hiroshi Imamura
    • Norihiro Kokudo

    Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract 16 June 2012 Pages: 115 - 124

    

12. IL-23R polymorphisms, HBV infection, and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in a high-risk Chinese population

    • Yan Xu
    • Yao Liu
    • Zhibin Hu

    Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract 28 June 2012 Pages: 125 - 131

    

13. Loss of heterozygosity and methylation of multiple tumor suppressor genes on chromosome 3 in hepatocellular carcinoma

    • Xiaoying Zhang
    • Hiu Ming Li
    • Cuijuan Zhang

    Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract 06 July 2012 Pages: 132 - 143

    

14. Family history in early-onset inflammatory bowel disease

    • Anna Monica Bianco
    • Valentina Zanin
    • Sergio Crovella

    Letter to the Editor 11 August 2012 Pages: 144 - 144

15. Reply to the letter by A. M. Bianco et al. regarding ‘‘Effects of family history on IBD characteristics in Japanese patients’’

    • Erika Kuwahara
    • Keiko Asakura
    • Toru Takebayashi

    Letter to the Editor 11 August 2012 Pages: 145 - 146