Transient Stasis of Pancreatic ...
Background Little is known about the etiopathogenesis of chronic pancreatitis, due mainly to the lack of simple animal models suitable to study infl ...
Successful Control of Peristoma ...
Background The techniques of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy are classified as the pull and introducer methods. Peristomal infection is the most ...
Smoking and Barrett’s Esophagus ...
Background Cigarette use is associated with esophageal adenocarcinoma, and cross-sectional studies suggest an association between smoking and Barret ...
Gastric Emptying of Solids and ...
Background Gastric emptying scintigraphy (GES) of solids is typically used to evaluate for gastroparesis. Aims The purpose of this study was to dete ...
Acute Pancreatitis in Obesity: ...
Background Acute pancreatitis is a substantial clinical problem accounting for 240,000 hospital admissions yearly in the United States. Obesity is e ...
Polymorphisms in Interleukin-1B ...
Background Gastric cancer is one of the most common malignancies afflicting the Chinese population. Polymorphisms in interleukin-1B (IL-1B) and inte ...
Comparison of Endoscopic and Cl ...
Background A proportion of Barrett’s esophagus (BE) and esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) displays familial aggregation, known as familial Barrett’s e ...
Gut-Brain Chemokine Changes in ...
Background Hepatic encephalopathy is a syndrome whose physiopathology is poorly understood; therefore, current diagnostic tests are imperfect and mo ...
miR-137 Is Frequently Down-Regu ...
Introduction MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small (19–25 nucleotides) noncoding RNAs that regulate the expressions of a wide variety of genes, in ...
Musashi1 and Hairy and Enhancer ...
Background Embryonic stem cells have great plasticity. In this study, we repaired impaired small intestine by transplanting putative intestinal epit ...
Correlation Analysis Between Ge ...
Background Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is caused by fat metabolism disorders and thereby abnormal or excessive accumulation of fat in h ...
Significance of Elevated Levels ...
Background and Aims Collagen type IV and hyaluronic acid (HA) are the major components of basement membrane and extracellular matrix, respectively. ...
Rectal Administration of Lipopo ...
Background Repeated challenges of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) could reduce the expression of proinflammatory cytokines in vitro, and oral administratio ...
Detection of Intestinal Metapla ...
Background Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is an effective means of eradicating Barrett’s esophagus (BE), both with and without associated dysplasia. ...
Sivelestat Suppresses iNOS Gene ...
Background Recent evidence has indicated that sivelestat, a neutrophil elastase inhibitor, has liver-protective effects in a variety of liver injuri ...
Time Trends of Mortality from G ...
Background The time trends of gastric and duodenal ulcer disease are shaped by a birth-cohort phenomenon. Aims The aim of this study was to assess t ...
Pharmacologic Evaluation of Sul ...
Background 2,4,6-Trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid (TNBS)- induced colitis has been used as an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn’s disease (CD), pr ...
Magnification Endoscopy and Chr ...
Background Specialized intestinal metaplasia (SIM) in Barrett’s esophagus is a risk factor of esophageal adenocarcinoma. It often occurs focally and ...
The Effect of Nicorandil on Sma ...
Background It has been shown that nicorandil, which has both ATP-sensitive K? (KATP) channel opener-like and nitrate-like properties, has an organ-p ...
Low Grade Esophageal Eosinophil ...
Background Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is defined by a minimum of 15 eosinophils (eos) per high-powered field (HPF) on esophageal biopsy, along w ...
Mechanism of Regulation of Na-H ...
Objective We investigated the role of toll-like receptor-4 (TLR-4) signal transduction in the regulation of Na-H exchanger-1 isoform (NHE-1) in ulce ...
Effects of Ischemia and Reperfu ...
Purpose We investigated the effects of ischemia/reperfusion in the intestine (I/R-i) on purine receptor P2X2- immunoreactive (IR) neurons of the rat ...
Poorly Treated or Unrecognized ...
Background The effect of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) on health-related quality of life (HRQL) in COPD has never been assessed. Aim To ev ...
Intragastrically Administered L ...
Background and Aim Lysophosphatidic acid exerts important physiological effects on many types of animal cells through its specific binding to severa ...
The Esophageal Multimodal Pain ...
Background Sensory changes are thought to be involved in gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD). The esophageal multimodal pain model can be used t ...