Background Clostridium butyricum (CB) is a butyric acid-producing bacterium that is thought to exert a probiotic effect in IBD. NLRP3 inflammasomes are an important component of intrinsic immunity, ...
(1) Glutaraldehyde, used in most endoscopy units in the United Kingdom for the disinfection of flexible gastrointestinal endoscopes, is a toxic substance being an irritant and a sensitiser; symptoms ...
Introduction Constipation is common in the community, and may affect survival adversely. An association between constipation and development of colorectal cancer (CRC) could be one possible ...
1 University of Sheffield, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Academic Unit of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK 2 Department of ...
Background Peritoneal metastasis is the most common metastasis pattern of gastric cancer. Patients with gastric cancer ...
Many patients with IBD report persisting symptoms, despite resolution of the inflammatory process. Although by definition, a ...
Background: Antibodies to soluble liver antigen/liver pancreas (SLA/LP) are specific markers of autoimmune hepatitis. Their target antigen has recently been cloned. Aims: To establish standardised ...
Isotopic bile salt studies have been performed in 13 cholecystectomy patients and 10 matched controls using labelled taurocholate and deoxycholic acid. Cholecystectomy subjects have reduced pools of ...
a Department of Hepatogastroenterology, Hôpital de l’Archet II, 151 Route de Saint Antoine de Ginestrière, 06202 Nice, France, b Regional Pharmacovigilance Center, Pasteur Hospital, Nice Dr P Hastier.
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Dr I Bjarnason, Reader in Medicine and Gastroenterology, Guy’s, King’s, and St Thomas’s Medical Schools, Bessemer Road, London SE5 9PJ, UK. BACKGROUND Diarrhoea in AIDS is associated with anorexia and ...
The leucocyte migration inhibition (LMI) test was used as an indicator of cell mediated immunity to gluten fraction III in 30 healthy controls and 58 patients with adult coeliac disease and the ...