Is transient elastography a useful tool for screening liver disease?
Paolo Del Poggio（Hepatology Unit,Treviglio Hospital, Treviglio 24047, Italy）;Silvia Colombo（Hepatology Unit,Treviglio Hospital, Treviglio 24047, Italy）

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Isolated segmental, sectoral and right hepatic bile duct injuries
Radoje B Colovic

..............page:1415-1419

Individually administered or co-prescribed thiopurines and mesalamines for inflammatory bowel disease
Giovanni C Actis;Rinaldo Pellicano;Mario Rizzetto;Muhammad Ayoubi;Nicola Leone;Gianfranco Tappero;Paola Pazienza;Floriano Rosina

..............page:1420-1426

Acute pancreatitis: Etiology and common pathogenesis
Guo-Jun Wang;Chun-Fang Gao;Dong Wei;Cun Wang;Si-Qin Ding

..............page:1427-1430

Transforming growth factor-β1 induces intestinal myofibroblast differentiation and modulates their migration
Julia Brenmoehl;Sandra Nicole Miller;Claudia Hofmann;Daniela Vogl;Werner Falk;Jürgen Scholmerich;Gerhard Rogler

..............page:1431-1442

Down-regulation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 activity in P-glycoprotein-mediated multidrug resistant hepatocellular carcinoma cells
Feng Yan;Xiao-Min Wang;Chao Pan;Quan-Ming Ma

..............page:1443-1451

Melatonin ameliorates experimental hepatic fibrosis induced by carbon tetrachloride in rats
Ru-Tao Hong;Jian-Ming Xu;Qiao Mei

..............page:1452-1458

Risk of contrast-induced nephropathy in hospitalized patients with cirrhosis
Nilesh Lodhia

..............page:1459-1464

Interleukin-1 and TNF-α polymorphisms and Helicobacter pylori in a Brazilian Amazon population
Hivana Patricia Melo Barbosa;Luisa Caricio Martins;Sidney Emanuel Batista dos Santos;Samia Demachki;Monica Baraúna Assumpcao;Charliana Damasceno Aragao;Tereza Cristina de Oliveira Corvelo

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Primary epithelial tumours of the appendix in a black population: A review of cases
Rondell Patrell Darrell Graham;Nadia Patricia Williams;Kamille Aisha West

..............page:1472-1474

Carbon dioxide for gut distension during digestive endoscopy: Technique and practice survey
Filip Janssens;Jacques Deviere;Pierre Eisendrath;Jean-Marc Dumonceau

..............page:1475-1479

Positional effect of mutations in 5'UTR of hepatitis C virus4a on patients' response to therapy
Mostafa K El Awady;Hassan M Azzazy;Ahmed M Fahmy;Sherif M Shawky;Noha G Badreldin;Samar S Yossef;Moataza H Omran;Abdel Rahman N Zekri;Said A Goueli

..............page:1480-1486

Extracolonic findings of computed tomographic colonography in Koreans
Sung Keun Park;Dong Il Park;Sun-Young Lee;Sang Kil Lee;Young-Ho Kim;Soon Jin Lee;Jeong-Sik Byeon;Kyu Chan Huh;Ki-Nam Shim

..............page:1487-1492

Hirschsprung's disease: Is there a relationship between mast cells and nerve fibers?
Amit Kumar Yadav;Kiran Mishra;Anup Mohta;Sarla Agarwal

..............page:1493-1498

Expression of phosphatase regenerating liver 3 is an independent prognostic indicator for gastric cancer
Ni Dai;Ai-Ping Lu;Cheng-Chao Shou;Ji-You Li

..............page:1499-1505

Intrahepatic transplantation of hepatic oval cells for fulminant hepatic failure in rats
Chen-Xuan Wu;Qi Zou;Zheng-Yan Zhu;Ying-Tang Gao;Yi-Jun Wang

..............page:1506-1511

Lung tissue flap repairs esophagus defection with an inner chitosan tube stent
Gang Chen;Wen-Jun Shi

..............page:1512-1517

Biotransformation of aesculin by human gut bacteria and identification of its metabolites in rat urine
Wei-Jun Ding;Yun Deng;Hao Feng;Wei-Wei Liu;Rong Hu;Xiang Li;Zhe-Ming Gu;Xiao-Ping Dong

..............page:1518-1523

A case of Noonan syndrome and Whipple's disease in the same patient
Sundip S Karsan;Hetal A Karsan;Anand S Karsan;James Ian McMillen

..............page:1524-1527

Successful isolation of Helicobacter pylori after prolonged incubation from a patient with failed eradication therapy
Yan Yin;Li-Hua He;Jian-Zhong Zhang

..............page:1528-1529

DNA-guided hepatitis B treatment: Viral load is insufficient with few exceptions
Pankaj Jain

..............page:1530-1531

Acknowledgments to reviewers of World Journal of Gastroenterology

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