Background and objective Gastric cancer (GC) remains a prevalent and preventable disease, yet accurate early diagnostic ...
I read with interest the recent article of Wilkinson-Smith and colleagues on the assessment of colonic motility by means of ...
The removal of colorectal polyps followed by histological evaluation is the current standard of care. Intracolonoscopy ...
Background Intestinal fibrosis resulting in stricture formation and obstruction in Crohn’s disease (CD) and increased wall stiffness leading to symptoms in ulcerative colitis (UC) is among the largest ...
Correspondence to Professor Lee-Yan Sheen, Institute of Food Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan; lysheen{at}ntu.edu.tw and Professor Ming-Shiang Wu, Department of ...
Objective Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from healthy donors to patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has been attempted in two previous double-blind, placebo-controlled studies. While ...
Background Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe secretory diarrhoea in infants and young children globally. The rotaviral enterotoxin, NSP4, has been proposed to stimulate calcium-activated ...
a Ist Department of Medicine, Christian-Albrechts- University Kiel, Germany, b Institute of Anatomy, Christian-Albrechts- University Kiel, Germany Dr D Seegert, Ist Department of Medicine, ...
Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Centre for Adult Diseases, Osaka, Japan. The effect on the recurrence of gastric ulcers after suppression of Helicobacter pylori by combined treatment with ...
1 Liver Research Laboratory, University of Crete School of Medicine, Heraklion, Greece 2 Laboratory of Experimental Endocrinology, University of Crete School of Medicine, Heraklion, Greece ...
We appreciate the interest of Stengel et al 1 in our recent multicenter study published in Gut.1 2 The group suggests that peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) are a source of interleukin (IL)-1β ...