Instructions to authors

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Portal vein thrombosis: Etiology and clinical outcome of cirrhosis and malignancy-related non-cirrhotic, non-tumoral extrahepatic portal venous obstruction
Pankaj Jain;Sandeep Nijhawan

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Acute pancreatitis and cholangitis: A complication caused by a migrated gastrostomy tube
Hiroshi Imamura;Toshihiro Konagaya;Takashi Hashimoto;Kunio Kasugai

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Retrograde jejunoduodenogastric intussusception due to a replacement percutaneous gastrostomy tube presenting as upper gastrointestinal bleeding
Eric Ibegbu;Manish Relan;Kenneth J Vega

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Fever as the only manifestation of hypersensitivity reactions associated with oxaliplatin in a patient with colorectal cancer Oxaliplatin-induced hypersensitivity reaction
M Wasif Saif;Shailja Roy;Leslie Ledbetter;Jennifer Madison;Kostas Syrigos

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Early steroid withdrawal after liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma
Zhi-Shui Chen;Fan He;Fan-Jun Zeng;Ji-Pin Jiang;Dun-Feng Du;Bin Liu

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Serum transforming growth factor-β1 level reflects disease status in patients with esophageal carcinoma after radiotherapy
Su-Ping Sun;Ye-Ning Jin;Hong-Peng Yang;Yi Wei;Zhao Dong

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Expression of periostin and its clinicopathological relevance in gastric cancer
Jun-Sheng Li;Guang-Wen Sun;Xiao-Ying Wei;Wen-Hao Tang

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Early nasogastric enteral nutrition for severe acute pancreatitis: A systematic review
Kun Jiang;Xin-Zu Chen;Qing Xia;Wen-Fu Tang;Lei Wang

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Transcutaneous cervical esophagus ultrasound in adults: Relation with ambulatory 24-h pH-monitoring and esophageal manometry
Sabite Kacar;Selma Uysal;Sedef Kuran;Ulku Dagli;Yasemin Ozin;Erdem Karabulut;Nurgul Sasmaz

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Maintenance of remission with infliximab in inflammatory bowel disease: Efficacy and safety long-term follow-up
Renato Caviglia;Mentore Ribolsi;Marina Rizzi;Sara Emerenziani;Maria Laura Annunziata;Michele Cicala

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In vitro pancreas duodenal homeobox-1 enhances the differentiation of pancreatic ductal epithelial cells into insulin-producing cells
Tao Liu;Chun-You Wang;Feng Yu;Shan-Miao Gou;He-Shui Wu;Jiong-Xin Xiong;Feng Zhou

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Propolis reduces bacterial translocation and intestinal villus atrophy in experimental obstructive jaundice
Mehmet Zafer Sabuncuoglu;Kemal Kismet;Sibel Serin Kilicoglu;Bulent Kilicoglu;Serap Erel;Sabahattin Muratoglu;Asli Elif Sunay;Esra Erdemli;Mehmet Ali Akkus

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Exogenous sphingomyelinase causes impaired intestinal epithelial barrier function
Jürgen Bock;Gerhard Liebisch;Joachim Schweimer;Gerd Schmitz;Gerhard Rogler

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CTGF, intestinal stellate cells and carcinoid fibrogenesis
M Kidd;IM Modlin;MD Shapiro;RL Camp;SM Mane;W Usinger;JR Murren

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A novel phenol-bound pectic polysaccharide from Decalepis hamiltonii with multi-step ulcer preventive activity
BM Srikanta;MN Siddaraju;SM Dharmesh

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Low-dose intermittent interferon-alpha therapy for HCV-related liver cirrhosis after curative treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma
Soocheol Jeong;Hiroshi Aikata;Yoshio Katamura;Takahiro Azakami;Tomokazu Kawaoka;Hiromi Saneto;Kiminori Uka;Nami Mori;Shintaro Takaki;Hideaki Kodama;Koji Waki;Michio Imamura;Hiroo Shirakawa;Yoshiiku Kawakami;Shoichi Takahashi;Kazuaki Chayama

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Hepatic steatosis as a possible risk factor for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma after eradication of hepatitis C virus with antiviral therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis C
Atsushi Tanaka;Satoko Uegaki;Hiroko Kurihara;Kiyoshi Aida;Masaki Mikami;Ikuo Nagashima;Junji Shiga;Hajime Takikawa

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RNA interference and antiviral therapy
Yan Ma;Chu-Yan Chan;Ming-Liang He

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