Host factors are important in determining clinical outcomes of Helicobacter pylori infection Tsutomu ChibaHiroshi SenoKazuichi Okazaki Review Pages: 1 - 9
Novel pathophysiological concepts of inflammatory bowel disease Toshifumi HibiHaruhiko Ogata Review Pages: 10 - 16
Antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis C: past, present, and future Norio HayashiTetsuo Takehara Review Pages: 17 - 27
Usefulness of electronic radial endoscopic color Doppler ultrasonography in esophageal varices: comparison with convex type Takahiro SatoKatsu YamazakiToshihiro Suga OriginalPaper Pages: 28 - 33
Effect of cilostazol, a selective type-III phosphodiesterase inhibitor, on water-immersion stress-induced gastric mucosal injury in rats Reina OhbaMichiro OtakaSumio Watanabe OriginalPaper Pages: 34 - 40
Role of Helicobacter pylori infection and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use in bleeding peptic ulcers in Japan Hibiki OotaniRyuichi IwakiriKazuma Fujimoto OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 46
Increased aggregation response of platelets in patients with inflammatory bowel disease Akira AndohTakashi YoshidaYoshihide Fujiyama OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 54
Vulnerability of experimentally induced fatty liver to heat stress in rats Hiromasa InoueNaomi SameshimaNoriaki Ikeda OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 61
Characteristics of rat bone marrow cells differentiated into a liver cell lineage and dynamics of the transplanted cells in the injured liver Kazuo OkumotoTakafumi SaitoSumio Kawata OriginalPaper Pages: 62 - 69
Comparison of standard-dose and low-dose gemcitabine regimens in pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients: a prospective randomized trial Hiroki SakamotoMasayuki KitanoMasatoshi Kudo OriginalPaper Pages: 70 - 76
Acute onset of ulcerative colitis following an operation for sigmoid colon cancer Mihoko TakakuraNaoko MochizukiMasanori Tanaka Case report Pages: 77 - 82
Gallbladder carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells Tomotaka AkatsuKaori KameyamaMasaki Kitajima Case report Pages: 83 - 87
Lymphoepithelial cyst of the cervical esophagus Sinya AsamiYoshio NaomotoNoriaki Tanaka Letters to the editor Pages: 88 - 89
A cooperative effect of surgical stress-induced immunomodulation with the cessation of immunosuppression on hepatitis C virus elimination? Masahide YoshikawaMasahisa ToyoharaHiroshi Fukui Letters to the editor Pages: 89 - 90
Clinical application of bone marrow cell transplantation for liver diseases Isao Sakaida Editorial Pages: 93 - 94