pernicious anemia: new insights from a gastroenterological point of view
Edith Lahner;Bruno Annibale

..............page:5121-5128

costimulatory molecule programmed death-1 in the cytotoxic response during chronic hepatitis c
Juan Ramón Larrubia;Selma Benito-Martínez;Joaquín Miquel;Miryam Calvino;Eduardo Sanz-de-Villalobos;Trinidad Parra-Cid

..............page:5129-5140

metabolic syndrome and risk of subsequent colorectal cancer
Raluca Pais;Horatiu Silaghi;Alina Cristina Silaghi;Mihai Lucian Rusu;Dan Lucian Dumitrascu

..............page:5141-5148

ep4 agonist alleviates indomethacin-induced gastric lesions and promotes chronic gastric ulcer healing
Guang-Liang Jiang;Wha Bin Im;Yariv Donde;Larry A Wheeler

..............page:5149-5156

voxel-based analyses of magnetization transfer imaging of the brain in hepatic encephalopathy
Falk R Miese;Hans-J(o)rg Wittsack;Gerald Kircheis;Arne Holstein;Christian Mathys;Ulrich M(o)dder;Mathias Cohnen

..............page:5157-5164

direct hepatic differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells induced by valproic acid and cytokines
Xue-Jun Dong;Guo-Rong Zhang;Qing-Jun Zhou;Ruo-Lang Pan;Ye Chen;Li-Xin Xiang;Jian-Zhong Shao

..............page:5165-5175

modification of sleep architecture in an animal model of experimental cirrhosis
Anabel Jiménez-Anguiano;Vanessa Díaz-Medina;Blanca Eugenia Farfán-Labonne;Gloria Giono-Chiang;David Kersenobich;Mario García-Lorenzana;Maria Concepción Gutiérrez-Ruiz;Javier Velázquez-Moctezuma

..............page:5176-5180

therapeutic effect of caffeic acid phenethyl ester on cerulein-induced acute pancreatitis
Mehmet Buyukberber;M Cemil Savas;Cahit Bagci;Mehmet Koruk;Murat T Gulsen;Ediz Tutar;Tugba Bilgic;Nurdan (O) Ceylan

..............page:5181-5185

co2 insufflation for potentially difficult colonoscopies:efficacy when used by less experienced colonoscopists
Toshio Uraoka;Joichiro Horii;Yutaka Saito;Kazuhide Yamamoto;Jun Kato;Motoaki Kuriyama;Keisuke Hori;Shin Ishikawa;Keita Harada;Koji Takemoto;Sakiko Hiraoka;Hideyuki Fujita

..............page:5186-5192

crosstalk between angiogenesis, cytokeratin-18, and insulin resistance in the progression of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
Mitsuteru Kitade;Masao Fujimoto;Akira Mitoro;Masahisa Toyohara;Masayoshi Sawai;Motoyuki Yoshida;Chie Morioka;Tatsuhiro Tsujimoto;Hideto Kawaratani;Hiroshi Fukui;Hitoshi Yoshiji;Ryuichi Noguchi;Yasuhide Ikenaka;Kosuke Kaji;Yusaku Shirai;Masaharu Yamazaki;Masahito Uemura;Junichi Yamao

..............page:5193-5199

antifibrotic effects of green tea on in vitro and in vivo models of liver fibrosis
Hye Kyung Kim;Taik-Hoon Yang;Hong-Yon Cho

..............page:5200-5205

factors relating to the short term effectiveness of percutaneous biliary drainage for hilar cholangiocarcinoma
Hong-Ming Tsai;Chiao-Hsiung Chuang;Xi-Zhang Lin;Chiung-Yu Chen

..............page:5206-5210

effect of electro-acupuncture on substance p, its receptor and corticotropin-releasing hormone in rats with irritable bowel syndrome
Xiao-Peng Ma;Lin-Ying Tan;Yun Yang;Huan-Gan Wu;Bin Jiang;Hui-Rong Liu;Ling Yang

..............page:5211-5217

biloma: an unusual complication in a patient with pancreatic cancer
Palak Jitendrakumar Trivedi;Prakash Gupta;Jane Phillips-Hughes;Anthony Ellis

..............page:5218-5220

ectopic papilla of vater in the pylorus
Iván Guerra;Luis Ramón Rábago;Fernando Bermejo;Elvira Quintanilla;Silvia García-Garzón

..............page:5221-5223

gastrointestinal stromal tumor causing small bowel intussusception in a patient with crohn\'s disease
George E Theodoropoulos;Dimitrios Linardoutsos;Dimitrios Tsamis;Paraskevas Stamopoulos;Dimitrios Giannopoulos;Flora Zagouri;Nikolaos V Michalopoulos

..............page:5224-5227

a case of advanced intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma successfully treated with chemosensitivity test-guided systemic chemotherapy
Kazumichi Abe;Takeru Wakatsuki;Fumiko Katsushima;Kyoko Monoe;Yukiko Kanno;Atsushi Takahashi;Junko Yokokawa;Hiromasa Ohira

..............page:5228-5231

recurrent massive bleeding due to dissecting intramural ematoma of the esophagus: treatment with therapeutic angiography
Jaejun Shim;Jae Young Jang;Young Hwangbo;Seok Ho Dong;Joo Hyeong Oh;Hyo Jong Kim;Byung-Ho Kim;Young Woon Chang;Rin Chang

..............page:5232-5235

successful endoscopic removal of a giant upper esophageal inflammatory fibrous polyp
Jie Zhang;Jian-Yu Hao;Simon Wing Heng Li;Shu-Tian Zhang

..............page:5236-5238

pedunculated hepatocellular carcinoma and splenic metastasis
Mao-Lin Yan;Yao-Dong Wang;Zhi-De Lai;Yi-Feng Tian;Hong-Biao Chen;Fu-Nan Qiu;Song-Qiang Zhou

..............page:5239-5241

vascular tumors and malformations of the colon
Israel Fernandez-Pineda

..............page:5242-5243

acknowledgments to reviewers of world journal of gastroenterology

..............page:5244

meetings

..............page:5245

instructions to authors

..............page:5246-5248