World Journal of Supported by NSFC Gastroenterology 2005-2006 Volume 11 Number 23 ELSEVIER June 21, 2005 National Journal Award Contents 2005 LIVER CANCER 3491 Hepatitis B and alcohol affect survival of hepatocellular carcinoma patients Wong LL, Limm WM, Tsai N, Severino R 3498 Overexpression of Bax induces apoptosis and enhances drug sensitivity of hepatocellular cancer-9204 cells Zheng JY, Yang GS, Wang WZ, Li J, Li KZ, Guan WX, Wang WL VIRAL HEPATITIS 3504 Effective inhibition of expression of hepatitis B virus genes by DNAzymes Wo JE, Wu XL, Zhou LF, Yao HP, Chen LW, Dennin RH 3508 Pancreatic involvement in chronic viral hepatitis Katakura Y, Yotsuyanagi H, Hashizume K, Okuse C, Okuse N, Nishikawa K, Suzuki M, Iino S, Itoh F Helicobacter pylori 3514 Direct measurement of gastric H+/K+-ATPase activities in patients with or without Helicobacter pylori-associated chronic gastritis Thong-Ngam D, Tangkijvanich P, Sampatanukul P, Prichakas P, Mahachai V, Tosukowong P 3518 Patients with Helicobacter pylori positive and negative duodenal ulcers have distinct clinical characteristics Chu KM, Kwok KF, Law S, Wong KH 3523 Distribution of Helicobacter pylori in north China Gong YH, Wang Y, Yuan Y 3528 Helicobacter pylori specific immune response induced by conservative flagellin linear B-cell epitope Ji WS, Hu JL, Wu KC, Qiu JW, Han ZY, Ding J, Fan DM BASIC RESEARCH 3533 Glutamine is highly effective in preventing in vivo cobalt-induced oxidative stress in rat liver Gonzales S, Polizio AH, Erario MA, Tomaro ML 3539 Effects of Changtai granules, a traditional compound Chinese medicine, on chronic trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid-induced colitis in rats Cao YB, Zhang JD, Diao YY, Yan L, Wang DJ, Jia XM, Gao PH, Cheng MH, Xu Z, Wang Y, Jiang YY 3544 P-glycoprotein is not involved in pathway of anti-Fas/Fas-induced apoptosis in KBv200 cells Wu QL, Wu XP, Liang YJ, Chen LM, Ding Y, Fu LW 3549 Effects of adrenomedullin gene overexpression on biological behavior of hepatic stellate cells Wang Y, Zhang JS, Huang GC, Cheng Q, Zhao ZH BRIEF REPORTS 3554 Peroxynitrite induced decrease in Na+, K+-ATPase activity is restored by taurine Kocak-Toker N, Giris M, Tülübas F, Uysal M, Aykac-Toker G 3558 A comparison of the clinical, demographic and psychiatric profiles among patients with erosive and non-erosive reflux disease in a multi-ethnic Asian country Ang TL, Fock KM, Ng TM, Teo EK, Chua TS, Tan J 3562 Prevalence of non-Helicobacter pylori duodenal ulcer in Karachi, Pakistan Yakoob J, Jafri W, Jafri N, Islam M, Abid S, Hamid S, AliShah H, Shaikh H www.wjgnet.com World Journal of Gastroenterology Contents Volume 11 Number 23 June 21, 2005 BRIEF REPORTS 3566 One-week dual therapy with ranitidine bismuth citrate and clarithromycin for the treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection in Brazilian patients with peptic ulcer Mesquita MA, Lorena SLS, Almeida JRS, Montes CG, Guerrazzi F, Campos LT, Zeitune JMR 3570 Oxidative stress in portal hypertension-induced rats with particular emphasis on nitric oxide and trace metals Izzet T, Osman K, Ethem U, Nihat Y, Ramazan K, Mustafa D, Hafize U, Riza KA, Birsen A, Habibe G, Seval A, Gonul S 3574 Dieulafoy’s lesion: A case series study Walmsley RS, Lee YT, Sung JJY 3578 Changes of gastric and intestinal blood flow, serum phospholipase A2 and interleukin-1 in rats with acute necrotizing pancreatitis Zhang JX, Dang SC, Qu JG, Wang XQ, Chen GZ 3582 Transformation of hepatitis B serologic markers in babies born to hepatitis B surface antigen positive mothers Wang JS, Chen H, Zhu QR 3586 Nodal spread and micrometastasis within mesorectum Wang C, Zhou ZG, Wang Z, Chen DY, Zheng YC, Zhao GP 3591 Expression of CD44v6 gene in normal human peripheral blood Song J, Zhang DS, Zheng J 3595 Differences in biological features of gastric dysplasia, indefinite dysplasia, reactive hyperplasia and discriminant analysis of these lesions Dong B, Xie YQ, Chen K, Wang T, Tang W, You WC, Li JY 3601 Co-expression of heat shock protein 70 and glucose-regulated protein 94 in human gastric carcinoma cell line BGC-823 Wang XP, Liao J, Liu GZ, Wang XC, Shang HW 3605 Effects of L-arginine on serum nitric oxide, nitric oxide synthase and mucosal Na+-K+-ATPase and nitric oxide synthase activity in segmental small-bowel autotransplantation model Fu TL, Zhang WT, Chen QP, Gao Y, Hu YH, Zhang DL 3610 Contrast-enhanced ultrasonographic imaging diagnosis on assessment of vascularity in liver metastatic lesions Du WH, Yang WX, Xiong XQ, Wang X, Zhou Y, Wang H 3614 Optimization of competitively differentiated polymerase chain reaction in detection of HBV basal core promoter mutation Peng XM, Gu L, Chen XJ, Li JG, Huang YS, Gao ZL 3619 Inhibition effect of Chinese herbal medicine on transcription of hepatitis C virus structural gene in vitro Dou J, Chen Q, Wang J 3623 Single nucleotide polymorphism in DNA methyltransferase 3B promoter and its association with gastric cardiac adenocarcinoma in North China Wang YM, Wang R, Wen DG, Li Y, Guo W, Wang N, Wei LZ, He YT, Chen ZF, Zhang XF, Zhang JH 3628 Relationship between the downregulation of HLA class I antigen and clinicopathological significance in gastric cancer Shen YQ, Zhang JQ, Miao FQ, Zhang JM, Jiang Q, Chen H, Shan XN, Xie W 3632 Fas ligand expression in colon cancer: A possible mechanism of tumor immune privilege Zhang W, Ding EX, Wang Q, Zhu DQ, He J, Li YL, Wang YH 3636 Application of endoscopic sphincterotomy in acute pancreatitis with fluid collection: A prospective study Chen WX, Li YM, Gao DJ, Xiang Z, Yu CH, Xu GQ, Ji F www.wjgnet.com World Journal of Gastroenterology Contents Volume 11 Number 23 June 21, 2005 BRIEF REPORTS 3640 Detection of lymph nodes micrometastases in Dukes’ A and B colorectal cancer using anti-cytokeratin antibodies AE1/AE3 Zhou ZW, Rieger N, Ruszkiewicz A, Wang GQ, Wan DS 3644 The value and limitation of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization in preventing recurrence of resected hepatocellular carcinoma Cheng HY, 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