World Journal of Gastroenterology 2008 Issue 17 State-of-the-art of irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease research in 2008

State-of-the-art of irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease research in 2008
Lynne V McFarland

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Editorial statement
Lynne V McFarland

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Controversies in the treatment of Crohn's disease: The case for an accelerated step-up treatment approach
Amandeep K Shergill;Jonathan P Terdiman

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Surgery for inflammatory bowel disease
John M Hwang;Madhulika G Varma

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Circulating lymphangiogenic growth factors in gastrointestinal solid tumors, could they be of any clinical significance?
Theodore D Tsirlis;George Papastratis;Kyriaki Masselou;Christos Tsigris;Antonis Papachristodoulou;Alkiviadis Kostakis;Nikolaos I Nikiteas

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Transcriptional silencing of Dickkopf gene family by CpG island hypermethylation in human gastrointestinal cancer
Tadateru Maehata;Hiroaki Taniguchi;Hiroyuki Yamamoto;Katsuhiko Nosho;Yasushi Adachi;Nobuki Miyamoto;Chic Miyamoto;Noriyuki Akutsu;Satoshi Yamaoka;Fumio Itoh

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Cost-effectiveness analysis of chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer in China
Xin-Zu Chen;Kun Jiang;Jian-Kun Hu;Bo Zhang;Hong-Feng Gou;Kun Yang;Zhi-Xin Chen;Jia-Ping Chen

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Correlation between rpoB gene mutation in Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis and clinical rifabutin and rifampicin resistance for treatment of Crohn's disease
Daniel R Beckler;Sammer Elwasila;George Ghobrial;John F Valentine;Saleh A Naser

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Mitochondrial protection by low doses of insulin-like growth factor- Ⅰ in experimental cirrhosis
Raquel Pérez;María García-Fernández;Matías Díaz-Sánchez;Juan E Puche;Gloria Delgado;Marian Conchillo;Jordi Muntané;Inma Castilla-Cortázar

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Hepatic reconstruction from fetal porcine liver cells using a radial flow bioreactor
Yuji Ishii;Ryota Saito;Hideki Marushima;Ryusuke Ito;Taro Sakamoto;Katsuhiko Yanaga

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Enhanced expressions and activations of leukotriene C4 synthesis enzymes in D-galactosamine/lipopolysaccharide-induced rat fulminant hepatic failure model
Kui-Fen Ma;Hong-Yu Yang;Zhe Chen;Luo-Yang Qi;Dan-Yan Zhu;Yi-Jia Lou

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Efficacy of current guidelines for the treatment of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in the clinical practice
Stefania Angeloni;Cinzia Leboffe;Antonella Parente;Mario Venditti;Alessandra Giordano;Manuela Merli;Oliviero Riggio

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Role of colonoscopy in patients with persistent acute diverticulitis
Adi Lahat;Henit Yanai;Emad Sakhnini;Yoram Menachem;Simon Bar-Meir

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Instructions to authors

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Pathophysiology of constipation in the older adult
G Lindsay McCrea;Christine Miaskowski;Nancy A Stotts;Liz Macera;Madhulika G Varma

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Updates on treatment of irritable bowel syndrome
Christopher W Hammerle;Christina M Surawicz

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Meta-analysis of probiotics for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome
Lynne V McFarland;Sascha Dublin

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Colorectal cancer and dysplasia in inflammatory bowel disease
Timothy L Zisman;David T Rubin

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Precautions in caudate lobe resection: Report of 11 cases
Zeng-Qing Wen;Yi-Qun Yan;Jia-Mei Yang;Meng-Chao Wu

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Protective effect of inactivated hepatitis A vaccine against the outbreak of hepatitis A in an open rural community
Yue-Gen Shen;Xie-Jun Gu;Jian-Hong Zhou

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Hemosuccus pancreaticus: Problems and pitfalls in diagnosis and treatment
Yoshikazu Toyoki;Kenichi Hakamada;Shunji Narumi;Masaki Nara;Keinosuke Ishido;Mutsuo Sasaki

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Undifferentiated connective tissue diseases-related hepatic injury
Ying Zhang;Fu-Kui Zhang;Xiao-Ning Wu;Tai-Ling Wang;Ji-Dong Jia;Bao-En Wang

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Eosinophilic cholecystitis caused by Ascaris lumbricoides
Montiel-Jarquín Alvaro

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Acknowledgments to Reviewers of World Journal of Gastroenterology

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Meetings

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