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Cover: Blood vessels. Coloured scanningelectron micrograph (SEM) of a resin cast ofblood vessels supplying the small intestine.Susuma Nishinaga/Science Photo Library.

Journal of the British Society ofGastroenterology

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Leading article873 Chronic viral hepatitis in children: any role for

the pathologist?M Guido, F Bortolotti

Commentaries879 The cytokine interleukin 21: a new player in

coeliac disease?B Meresse, J Verdier, N Cerf-Bensussan

882 TRPV1: a new target for treatment of visceralpain in IBS?P Holzer

884 Vagal mediation of systemic cardiovascularresponse to portal hypertension: fromexperimental studies in animals to treatment ofhumansS Møller

Coeliac disease887 Interleukin 21 contributes to the mucosal T

helper cell type 1 response in coeliac diseaseD Fina, M Sarra, R Caruso, G Del Vecchio Blanco,

F Pallone, T T MacDonald, G Monteleone

Inflammatory bowel disease893 Randomised trial of once- or twice-daily MMX

mesalazine for maintenance of remission inulcerative colitisM A Kamm, G R Lichtenstein, W J Sandborn,

S Schreiber, K Lees, K Barrett, R Joseph

903 Reduced a-defensin expression is associatedwith inflammation and not NOD2 mutationstatus in ileal Crohn’s diseaseL A Simms, J D Doecke, M D Walsh, N Huang,

E V Fowler, G L Radford-Smith

911 Anti-inflammatory role of sympathetic nerves inchronic intestinal inflammationR H Straub, F Grum, U Strauch, S Capellino,

F Bataille, A Bleich, W Falk, J Scholmerich,

F Obermeier

Neurogastroenterology923 Increased capsaicin receptor TRPV1-expressing

sensory fibres in irritable bowel syndrome andtheir correlation with abdominal painA Akbar, Y Yiangou, P Facer, J R F Walters,

P Anand, S Ghosh

Colorectal cancer931 Integrin-linked kinase regulates cell proliferation

and tumour growth in murine colitis-associatedcarcinogenesisK Assi, J Mills, D Owen, C Ong, R St Arnaud,

S Dedhar, B Salh

941 Association between chromosomal instability andprognosis in colorectal cancer: a meta-analysisA Walther, R Houlston, I Tomlinson

Hepatology951 A prospective national study of acute fatty liver

of pregnancy in the UKM Knight, C Nelson-Piercy, J J Kurinczuk,P Spark, P Brocklehurst, on behalf of UK ObstetricSurveillance System (UKOSS)

957 Uncoupling protein-2 (UCP2) inducesmitochondrial proton leak and increasessusceptibility of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis(NASH) liver to ischaemia–reperfusion injuryG Serviddio, F Bellanti, R Tamborra, T Rollo,N Capitanio, A D Romano, J Sastre,G Vendemiale, E Altomare

966 Central neural activation of hyperdynamiccirculation in portal hypertensive rats dependson vagal afferent nervesH Liu, N Schuelert, J J McDougall, S S Lee

JournalScan975 Edited by P Moayyedi

Recent advances in clinical practice976 High-resolution narrow band imaging

endoscopyA Larghi, P G Lecca, G Costamagna

987 A problem-oriented approach to liver disease inoncology patientsG B McDonald, D Frieze

Guidelines1004 Guidelines on the management of common bile

duct stones (CBDS)E J Williams, J Green, I Beckingham, R Parks,D Martin, M Lombard

PostScript1023 Letters

Editor’s quiz877 A not so uncommon cause of abdominal pain

H Fellows, H Dalton, I Murray, G Maskell

878 A rare cause of obscure gastrointestinalbleedingW-L Wang, J-Y Lee, J-T Lin, K-L Liu, H-P Wang

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902 An unexpected cause of chronic diarrhoeaC-M Tai, C-H Tu, H-B Wu, D-S Perng, T-C Lee,C-T Shun, H-P Wang

922 Hypoalbuminaemia and coeliac diseaseV Tan, D Stella, H Frydenberg, C Mow,S Nandurkar, P R Gibson

973 A rare complication of a metal stentZ Liao, Z-S Li

974 Unusual angiographic findings of lowergastrointestinal bleedingB-B Chen, C-W Lee, Y-M Tsang, K-L Liu,H-P Wang

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