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Effect of sinapic acid (20 and 40 mg/kg bodyweight) pretreatment on the survival rate of D-galactosamine/lipopolysaccharideinduced acute liver failure.

Distribution frequency of serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D in chronic hepatitis B patients and healthy controls.

Changes in liver, adipose tissue, and muscle with hepatitis C virus infection.

Fatigue score in the inflammatory bowel disease patients.

Changes in electrolyte levels (n = 256) measured in mmol/L.

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Editors-in-Chief

Subrata Ghosh, AGAF, FCAHS, FRCP (C), FRCPC, FRCPE, MD, Full Professor, (E-mail: ghoshs@bham.ac.uk) Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham UB6 8TW, United Kingdom
Andrzej S Tarnawski, DSc, MD, PhD, Professor, (E-mail:atarnawski@yahoo.com) Gastroenterology Research Department, University of California Irvine and the Veterans Administration Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, CA 90822, United States

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The WJG is now abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Journal Citation Reports, Index Medicus, MEDLINE, PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), China Science and Technology Journal Database (CSTJ), and Superstar Journals Database.

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The 2020 edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2019 impact factor (IF) for WJG as 3.665; IF without journal self cites: 3.534; 5-year IF: 4.048; Ranking: 35 among 88 journals in gastroenterology and hepatology; and Quartile category: Q2. The WJG’s CiteScore for 2019 is 7.1 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2019: Gastroenterology is 17/137.

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1007-9327 (print) and 2219-2840 (online)

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Contents Volume 27 Issue 14 April 14, 2021

Opinion Review

How far along are we in revealing the connection between metformin and colorectal cancer?

Maja Cigrovski Berkovic, Danko Mikulic, Ines Bilic-Curcic, Anna Mrzljak

World J Gastroenterol 27(14):1362-1368. Published online Apr 14, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i14.1362

Review

Intracellular interferon signalling pathways as potential regulators of covalently closed circular DNA in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B

Zhi Yi Goh, Ee Chee Ren, Hui Ling Ko

World J Gastroenterol 27(14):1369-1391. Published online Apr 14, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i14.1369

Minireviews

Artificial intelligence-assisted endoscopic detection of esophageal neoplasia in early stage: The next step?

Yong Liu

World J Gastroenterol 27(14):1392-1405. Published online Apr 14, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i14.1392

COVID-19 and the gastrointestinal tract: source of infection or merely a target of the inflammatory process following SARS-CoV-2 infection?

Jacopo Troisi, Giorgia Venutolo, Meritxell Pujolassos Tanyà, Matteo Delli Carri, Annamaria Landolfi, Alessio Fasano

World J Gastroenterol 27(14):1406-1418. Published online Apr 14, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i14.1406

Basic Study

Lipotoxic hepatocyte-derived exosomal miR-1297 promotes hepatic stellate cell activation through the PTEN signaling pathway in metabolic-associated fatty liver disease

Xin Luo, Sheng-Zheng Luo, Zi-Xin Xu, Cui Zhou, Zheng-Hong Li, Xiao-Yan Zhou, Ming-Yi Xu

World J Gastroenterol 27(14):1419-1434. Published online Apr 14, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i14.1419

Cyanidin 3-glucoside modulated cell cycle progression in liver precancerous lesion, in vivo study

Marwa Matboli, Amany H Hasanin, Reham Hussein, Sarah El-Nakeep, Eman K Habib, Rawan Ellackany, Lobna A Saleh

World J Gastroenterol 27(14):1435-1450. Published online Apr 14, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i14.1435

Retrospective Cohort Study

Stapled transperineal repair for low- and mid-level rectovaginal fistulas: A 5-year experience and comparison with sutured repair

Qian Zhou, Zhi-Min Liu, Hua-Xian Chen, Dong-Lin Ren, Hong-Cheng Lin

World J Gastroenterol 27(14):1451-1464. Published online Apr 14, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i14.1451

Impact of preoperative antibiotics and other variables on integrated microbiome-host transcriptomic data generated from colorectal cancer resections

Sarah A Malik, Chencan Zhu, Jinyu Li, Joseph F LaComb, Paula I Denoya, Igor Kravets, Joshua D Miller, Jie Yang, Melissa Kramer, W Richard McCombie, Charles E Robertson, Daniel N Frank, Ellen Li

World J Gastroenterol 27(14):1465-1482. Published online Apr 14, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i14.1465

Retrospective Study

Apolipoprotein E variants correlate with the clinical presentation of paediatric inflammatory bowel disease: A cross-sectional study

Aleksandra Glapa-Nowak, Mariusz Szczepanik, Barbara Iwańczak, Jarosław Kwiecień, Anna Barbara Szaflarska-Popławska, Urszula Grzybowska-Chlebowczyk, Marcin Osiecki, Marcin Dziekiewicz, Andrzej Stawarski, Jarosław Kierkuś, Tomasz Banasiewicz, Aleksandra Banaszkiewicz, Jarosław Walkowiak

World J Gastroenterol 27(14):1483-1496. Published online Apr 14, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i14.1483

Observational Study

Exploration of nucleos(t)ide analogs cessation in chronic hepatitis B patients with hepatitis B e antigen loss

Yan Xue, Meng Zhang, Tao Li, Feng Liu, Li-Xin Zhang, Xiao-Ping Fan, Bao-Hua Yang, Lei Wang

World J Gastroenterol 27(14):1497-1506. Published online Apr 14, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i14.1497

Meta-Analysis

T-tube vs no T-tube for biliary tract reconstruction in adult orthotopic liver transplantation: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis

Jun-Zhou Zhao, Lin-Lan Qiao, Zhao-Qing Du, Jia Zhang, Meng-Zhou Wang, Tao Wang, Wu-Ming Liu, Lin Zhang, Jian Dong, Zheng Wu, Rong-Qian Wu

World J Gastroenterol 27(14):1507-1523. Published online Apr 14, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i14.1507