Issue 1/2013
Content (15 Articles)
Treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus infection in Japan: update on therapy and guidelines
Kazuaki Chayama, C. Nelson Hayes, Waka Ohishi, Yoshiiku Kawakami
Clinical utility of quantitative HBsAg in natural history and nucleos(t)ide analogue treatment of chronic hepatitis B: new trick of old dog
Tai-Chung Tseng, Jia-Horng Kao
Host factors determining the efficacy of hepatitis C treatment
Wan-Long Chuang, Ming-Lung Yu
Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for Crohn’s disease, integrated with formal consensus of experts in Japan
Fumiaki Ueno, Toshiyuki Matsui, Takayuki Matsumoto, Katsuyoshi Matsuoka, Mamoru Watanabe, Toshifumi Hibi
Genetic polymorphisms of SCN10A are associated with functional dyspepsia in Japanese subjects
Tomiyasu Arisawa, Tomomitsu Tahara, Hisakazu Shiroeda, Takahiro Minato, Yasuhiro Matsue, Takashi Saito, Tomoki Fukuyama, Toshimi Otsuka, Atsushi Fukumura, Masakatsu Nakamura, Tomoyuki Shibata
Eosinophilic esophagitis in children and adolescents: epidemiology, clinical presentation and seasonal variation
Serge Alexander Sorser, Mohammed Barawi, Karen Hagglund, Mohammad Almojaned, Hernando Lyons
MicroRNA-146a negatively regulates PTGS2 expression induced by Helicobacter pylori in human gastric epithelial cells
Zhen Liu, Di Wang, Yongliang Hu, Guoyong Zhou, Chaohui Zhu, Qi Yu, Yingchun Chi, Yingli Cao, Chiyu Jia, Quanming Zou
Chronic HCV infection was associated with severe insulin resistance and mild atherosclerosis: a population-based study in an HCV hyperendemic area
Ichiro Miyajima, Takumi Kawaguchi, Ako Fukami, Yumiko Nagao, Hisashi Adachi, Satoshi Sasaki, Tsutomu Imaizumi, Michio Sata
Expression of gremlin 1 correlates with increased angiogenesis and progression-free survival in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors
Ming-Huang Chen, Yi-Chen Yeh, Yi-Ming Shyr, Yi-Hua Jan, Yee Chao, Chung-Pin Li, Shin-E Wang, Cheng-Hwai Tzeng, Peter Mu-Hsin Chang, Chun-Yu Liu, Ming-Han Chen, Michael Hsiao, Chi-Ying F. Huang
Clinical features of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with autoimmune hepatitis in Japan
Hiromasa Ohira, Kazumichi Abe, Atsushi Takahashi, Mikio Zeniya, Takafumi Ichida
Intermittent clamping is superior to ischemic preconditioning and its effect is more marked with shorter clamping cycles in the rat liver
Yasuji Seyama, Hiroshi Imamura, Yoshinori Inagaki, Yutaka Matsuyama, Wei Tang, Masatoshi Makuuchi, Norihiro Kokudo
IL-23R polymorphisms, HBV infection, and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in a high-risk Chinese population
Yan Xu, Yao Liu, Shandong Pan, Li Liu, Jibin Liu, Xiangjun Zhai, Hongbing Shen, Zhibin Hu
Loss of heterozygosity and methylation of multiple tumor suppressor genes on chromosome 3 in hepatocellular carcinoma
Xiaoying Zhang, Hiu Ming Li, Zhiyan Liu, Gengyin Zhou, Qinghui Zhang, Tingguo Zhang, Jianping Zhang, Cuijuan Zhang
Family history in early-onset inflammatory bowel disease
Anna Monica Bianco, Valentina Zanin, Lorenzo Monasta, Stefano Martelossi, Annalisa Marcuzzi, Sergio Crovella
Reply to the letter by A. M. Bianco et al. regarding ‘‘Effects of family history on IBD characteristics in Japanese patients’’
Erika Kuwahara, Keiko Asakura, Yuji Nishiwaki, Nagamu Inoue, Mamoru Watanabe, Toshifumi Hibi, Toru Takebayashi