Issue 1/2012
Content (183 Articles)
Validation of the FIB4 index in a Japanese nonalcoholic fatty liver disease population
Yoshio Sumida, Masato Yoneda, Hideyuki Hyogo, Yoshito Itoh, Masafumi Ono, Hideki Fujii, Yuichiro Eguchi, Yasuaki Suzuki, Noriaki Aoki, Kazuyuki Kanemasa, Koji Fujita, Kazuaki Chayama, Toshiji Saibara, Norifumi Kawada, Kazuma Fujimoto, Yutaka Kohgo, Toshikazu Yoshikawa, Takeshi Okanoue
Value of fecal calprotectin in the evaluation of patients with abdominal discomfort: an observational study
Michael Manz, Emanuel Burri, Claude Rothen, Nuschin Tchanguizi, Christian Niederberger, Livio Rossi, Christoph Beglinger, Frank Serge Lehmann
Factors linked to severe thrombocytopenia during antiviral therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis c and pretreatment low platelet counts
Kung-Hung Lin, Ping-I Hsu, Hsien-Chung Yu, Chun-Ku Lin, Wei-Lun Tsai, Wen-Chi Chen, Hoi-Hung Chan, Kwok-Hung Lai
Prevalence of non Helicobacter pylori species in patients presenting with dyspepsia
Javed Yakoob, Zaigham Abbas, Rustam Khan, Shagufta Naz, Zubair Ahmad, Muhammad Islam, Safia Awan, Fatima Jafri, Wasim Jafri
Serological assessment of gastric mucosal atrophy in gastric cancer
Jan Bornschein, Michael Selgrad, Thomas Wex, Doerthe Kuester, Peter Malfertheiner
High-dose clevudine impairs mitochondrial function and glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in INS-1E cells
Yoon-Ok Jang, Xianglan Quan, Ranjan Das, Shanhua Xu, Choon-Hee Chung, Chan Mug Ahn, Soon-Koo Baik, In Deok Kong, Kyu-Sang Park, Moon Young Kim
Applicability of a short/rapid 13C-urea breath test for Helicobacter pylori: retrospective multicenter chart review study
Hemda Schmilovitz-Weiss, Vered Sehayek-Shabat, Rami Eliakim, Eitan Skapa, Yona Avni, Haim Shirin
Chronic fatigue syndrome after Giardia enteritis: clinical characteristics, disability and long-term sickness absence
Halvor Naess, Morten Nyland, Trygve Hausken, Inghild Follestad, Harald I Nyland
Long-term effects of treatment and response in patients with chronic hepatitis C on quality of life. An international, multicenter, randomized, controlled study
Geert Bezemer, Arthur R Van Gool, Elke Verheij-Hart, Bettina E Hansen, Yoav Lurie, Juan I Esteban, Martin Lagging, Francesco Negro, Stefan Zeuzem, Carlo Ferrari, Jean-Michel Pawlotsky, Avidan U Neumann, Solko W Schalm, Robert J de Knegt
"Drop in" gastroscopy outpatient clinic - experience after 9 months
Gert Huppertz-Hauss, Lubomir Chengarov, Stein Dahler, Anita Jørgensen, Volker Moritz, Jørn Paulsen, Geir Hoff
Luteolin decreases IGF-II production and downregulates insulin-like growth factor-I receptor signaling in HT-29 human colon cancer cells
Do Young Lim, Han Jin Cho, Jongdai Kim, Chu Won Nho, Ki Won Lee, Jung Han Yoon Park
GDNF protects enteric glia from apoptosis: evidence for an autocrine loop
Martin Steinkamp, Heike Gundel, Nadine Schulte, Ulrike Spaniol, Carolin Pflueger, Eugen Zizer, Georg BT von Boyen
Gaviscon® vs. omeprazole in symptomatic treatment of moderate gastroesophageal reflux. a direct comparative randomised trial
Denis Pouchain, Marc-André Bigard, François Liard, Marc Childs, Annick Decaudin, Donna McVey
Involvement of a periodontal pathogen, Porphyromonas gingivalis on the pathogenesis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Masato Yoneda, Shuhei Naka, Kazuhiko Nakano, Koichiro Wada, Hiroki Endo, Hironori Mawatari, Kento Imajo, Ryota Nomura, Kazuya Hokamura, Masafumi Ono, Shogo Murata, Iwai Tohnai, Yoshio Sumida, Toshihide Shima, Masae Kuboniwa, Kazuo Umemura, Yoshinori Kamisaki, Atsuo Amano, Takeshi Okanoue, Takashi Ooshima, Atsushi Nakajima
Diagnostic accuracy of cyst fluid amphiregulin in pancreatic cysts
May T Tun, Reetesh K Pai, Shirley Kwok, Aiwen Dong, Aparna Gupta, Brendan C Visser, Jeff A Norton, George A Poultsides, Subhas Banerjee, Jacques Van Dam, Ann M Chen, Shai Friedland, Brennan A Scott, Rahul Verma, Anson W Lowe, Walter G Park
Diagnostic accuracy of the aspartate aminotransferase-to-platelet ratio index for the prediction of hepatitis B-related fibrosis: a leading meta-analysis
Wenwen Jin, Zhonghua Lin, Yongning Xin, Xiangjun Jiang, Quanjiang Dong, Shiying Xuan
Correlation between magnifying narrow band imaging and histopathology in gastric protruding/or polypoid lesions: a pilot feasibility trial
Takafumi Omori, Yoshio Kamiya, Tomomitsu Tahara, Tomoyuki Shibata, Masakatsu Nakamura, Joh Yonemura, Masaaki Okubo, Daisuke Yoshioka, Takamitsu Ishizuka, Naoko Maruyama, Toshiaki Kamano, Hiroshi Fujita, Yoshihito Nakagawa, Mitsuo Nagasaka, Masami Iwata, Tomiyasu Arisawa, Ichiro Hirata
Dome-type carcinoma of the colon; a rare variant of adenocarcinoma resembling a submucosal tumor: a case report
Masayoshi Yamada, Shigeki Sekine, Takahisa Matsuda, Masayuki Yoshida, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Ryoji Kushima, Taku Sakamoto, Takeshi Nakajima, Yutaka Saito, Takayuki Akasu
Fully covered self-expandable metal stents (SEMS), partially covered SEMS and self-expandable plastic stents for the treatment of benign esophageal ruptures and anastomotic leaks
Petra GA van Boeckel, Kulwinder S Dua, Bas LAM Weusten, Ruben JH Schmits, Naveen Surapaneni, Robin Timmer, Frank P Vleggaar, Peter D Siersema
Effect of intracellular lipid accumulation in a new model of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Norberto C Chavez-Tapia, Natalia Rosso, Claudio Tiribelli
Early effect of oral administration of omeprazole with mosapride as compared with those of omeprazole alone on the intragastric pH
Hiroshi Iida, Masahiko Inamori, Tetsuro Fujii, Yusuke Sekino, Hiroki Endo, Kunihiro Hosono, Takashi Nonaka, Tomoko Koide, Hirokazu Takahashi, Masato Yoneda, Ayumu Goto, Yasunobu Abe, Noritoshi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kirikoshi, Kensuke Kubota, Satoru Saito, Eiji Gotoh, Shin Maeda, Atsushi Nakajima
Metachronous metastasis- and survival-analysis show prognostic importance of lymphadenectomy for colon carcinomas
Tilman Laubert, Jens K Habermann, Claudia Hemmelmann, Markus Kleemann, Elisabeth Oevermann, Ralf Bouchard, Philipp Hildebrand, Thomas Jungbluth, Conny Bürk, Hamed Esnaashari, Erik Schlöricke, Martin Hoffmann, Andreas Ziegler, Hans-Peter Bruch, Uwe J Roblick
Intravenous non-high-dose pantoprazole is equally effective as high-dose pantoprazole in preventing rebleeding among low risk patients with a bleeding peptic ulcer after initial endoscopic hemostasis
Chih-Ming Liang, Jyong-Hong Lee, Yuan-Hung Kuo, Keng-Liang Wu, Yi-Chun Chiu, Yeh-Pin Chou, Ming-Luen Hu, Wei-Chen Tai, King-Wah Chiu, Tsung-Hui Hu, Seng-Kee Chuah
Surgical treatment of congenital biliary duct cyst
De-chun Wang, Zi-pei Liu, Zhi-hua Li, Da-jiang Li, Jian Chen, Shu-guo Zheng, Yu He, Ping Bie, Shu-guang Wang
Glucagon-like peptides 1 and 2 and vasoactive intestinal peptide are neuroprotective on cultured and mast cell co-cultured rat myenteric neurons
Ulrikke Voss, Elin Sand, Per M Hellström, Eva Ekblad
Spirulina platensis versus silymarin in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus infection. A pilot randomized, comparative clinical trial
Mostafa Yakoot, Amel Salem
Genetic deletion of dectin-1 does not affect the course of murine experimental colitis
Sigrid EM Heinsbroek, Anneke Oei, Joris JTH Roelofs, Shobhit Dhawan, Anje te Velde, Siamon Gordon, Wouter J de Jonge
Do gastrointestinal and respiratory signs and symptoms correlate with the severity of gastroesophageal reflux?
Hakan Uzun, Demet Alagoz, Mesut Okur, Bunyamin Dikici, Kenan Kocabay, Dursun Ali Senses, Aybars Ozkan, Murat Kaya
Self-reported colorectal cancer screening of Medicare beneficiaries in family medicine vs. internal medicine practices in the United States: a cross-sectional study
Angela Y Higgins, Anna R B Doubeni, Karon L Phillips, Adeyinka O Laiyemo, Becky Briesacher, Jennifer Tjia, Chyke A Doubeni
Dietary L-arginine supplementation reduces Methotrexate-induced intestinal mucosal injury in rat
Tal Koppelmann, Yulia Pollak, Jorge Mogilner, Jacob Bejar, Arnold G Coran, Igor Sukhotnik
Quantitative modeling of the physiology of ascites in portal hypertension
David G Levitt, Michael D Levitt
Assessment of liver fibrosis and associated risk factors in HIV-infected individuals using transient elastography and serum biomarkers
Johannes Vermehren, Annika Vermehren, Axel Mueller, Amina Carlebach, Thomas Lutz, Peter Gute, Gaby Knecht, Christoph Sarrazin, Mireen Friedrich-Rust, Nicole Forestier, Thierry Poynard, Stefan Zeuzem, Eva Herrmann, Wolf Peter Hofmann
A retrospective case-control study of hepatitis C virus infection and oral lichen planus in Japan: association study with mutations in the core and NS5A region of hepatitis C virus
Yumiko Nagao, Michio Sata
Apolipoprotein E COG 133 mimetic peptide improves 5-fluorouracil-induced intestinal mucositis
Orleâncio Gomes R Azevedo, Renato André C Oliveira, Bruna Castro Oliveira, Snjezana Zaja-Milatovic, Celina Viana Araújo, Deysi Viviana T Wong, Tiê Bezerra Costa, Herene Barros Miranda Lucena, Roberto César P Lima-Júnior, Ronaldo A Ribeiro, Cirle A Warren, Aldo Ângelo M Lima, Michael P Vitek, Richard L Guerrant, Reinaldo B Oriá
Changes of Treg and Th17 cells balance in the development of acute and chronic hepatitis B virus infection
Liang Xue-Song, Li Cheng-Zhong, Zhou Ying, Wan Mo-Bin
Endoscopic ultrasound criteria to predict the need for intervention in pancreatic necrosis
Christian Jürgensen, Alexander Arlt, Frank Neser, Annette Fritscher-Ravens, Ulrich Stölzel, Jochen Hampe
The balance between two isoforms of LEF-1 regulates colon carcinoma growth
Shu-Hong Wang, Ke-Jun Nan, Yao-Chun Wang, Wen-Juan Wang, Tao Tian
Inter-relationships between the economic and emotional consequences of colorectal cancer for patients and their families: a qualitative study
Alan Ó Céilleachair, Liza Costello, Claire Finn, Aileen Timmons, Patricia Fitzpatrick, Kanika Kapur, Anthony Staines, Linda Sharp
Hepatitis B vs. hepatitis C infection on viral hepatitis-associated hepatocellular carcinoma
Spiros P Hiotis, Nuh N Rahbari, Gerald A Villanueva, Eunjie Klegar, Wei Luan, Qin Wang, Herman T Yee
Drug-induced liver injury due to varenicline: a case report
David Sprague, Kiran Bambha
A low level of serum total testosterone is independently associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Sunmi Kim, Hyuktae Kwon, Jin-Ho Park, Belong Cho, Donghee Kim, Seung-Won Oh, Cheol Min Lee, Ho-Chun Choi
Implementation of population screening for colorectal cancer by repeated Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT): third round
Inge Stegeman, Thomas R de Wijkerslooth, Rosalie C Mallant-Hent, Karin de Groot, An K Stroobants, Paul Fockens, Marco Mundt, Patrick MM Bossuyt, Evelien Dekker
Capsule colonoscopy increases uptake of colorectal cancer screening
Stefan Groth, Horst Krause, Rainer Behrendt, Helge Hill, Michael Börner, Murat Bastürk, Nora Plathner, Friedrich Schütte, Ulrich Gauger, Jürgen Ferdinand Riemann, Lutz Altenhofen, Thomas Rösch
Effectiveness of CO2-insufflated endoscopic submucosal dissection with the duodenal balloon occlusion method for early esophageal or gastric cancer: a randomized case control prospective study
Hirohito Mori, Hideki Kobara, Shintaro Fujihara, Noriko Nishiyama, Kunihiko Izuishi, Masaomi Ohkubo, Kazi Rafiq, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Tsutomu Masaki
Association of an NFKB1 intron SNP (rs4648068) with gastric cancer patients in the Han Chinese population
Renquan Lu, Xiang Gao, Yin Chen, Jian Ni, Yongfu Yu, Sheng Li, Lin Guo
Immunophenotype classification and therapeutic outcomes of Chinese primary gastrointestinal diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Zizhen Zhang, Yanying Shen, Danping Shen, Xingzhi Ni
Autoimmune hepatitis type 2 associated with an unexpected and transient presence of primary biliary cirrhosis-specific antimitochondrial antibodies: a case study and review of the literature
Pietro Invernizzi, Maria Grazia Alessio, Daniel S Smyk, Ana Lleo, Aurelio Sonzogni, Luca Fabris, Manila Candusso, Dimitrios P Bogdanos, Raffaele Iorio, Giuliano Torre
Hormone replacement therapy is associated with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a retrospective cohort study
Helen Close, James M Mason, Douglas Wilson, A Pali S Hungin
Evaluation of ES-derived neural progenitors as a potential source for cell replacement therapy in the gut
Valentina Sasselli, Maria-Adelaide Micci, Kristen M Kahrig, Pankaj Jay Pasricha
Unsedated peroral wireless pH capsule placement vs. standard pH testing: A randomized study and cost analysis
Christopher N Andrews, Daniel C Sadowski, Adriana Lazarescu, Chad Williams, Emil Neshev, Martin Storr, Flora Au, Steven J Heitman
The gastrointestinal electrical mapping suite (GEMS): software for analyzing and visualizing high-resolution (multi-electrode) recordings in spatiotemporal detail
Rita Yassi, Gregory O’Grady, Nira Paskaranandavadivel, Peng Du, Timothy R Angeli, Andrew J Pullan, Leo K Cheng, Jonathan C Erickson
Efficacy of omeprazole, famotidine, mosapride and teprenone in patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms: an omeprazole-controlled randomized study (J-FOCUS)
Kouichi Sakurai, Akihito Nagahara, Kazuhiko Inoue, Junichi Akiyama, Katsuhiro Mabe, Junichi Suzuki, Yasuki Habu, Akihiro Araki, Tsuyoshi Suzuki, Katsuaki Satoh, Haruhiko Nagami, Ryosaku Harada, Nobuo Tano, Masayasu Kusaka, Yasuhiko Fujioka, Toshikatsu Fujimura, Nobuyuki Shigeto, Tsuneyo Oumi, Jun Miwa, Hiroto Miwa, Kazuma Fujimoto, Yoshikazu Kinoshita, Ken Haruma
Diabetes, insulin use and Helicobacter pylori eradication: a retrospective cohort study
Chin-Hsiao Tseng
Statin use is associated with a reduced incidence of colorectal cancer: a colonoscopy-controlled case–control study
Thomas Broughton, Jamie Sington, Ian LP Beales
Palm vitamin E reduces catecholamines, xanthine oxidase activity and gastric lesions in rats exposed to water-immersion restraint stress
Nur Azlina Mohd Fahami, Ibrahim AbdelAziz Ibrahim, Yusof Kamisah, Nafeeza Mohd Ismail
Postoperative complications following colectomy for ulcerative colitis: A validation study
Christopher Ma, Marcelo Crespin, Marie-Claude Proulx, Shanika DeSilva, James Hubbard, Martin Prusinkiewicz, Geoffrey C Nguyen, Remo Panaccione, Subrata Ghosh, Robert P Myers, Hude Quan, Gilaad G Kaplan
Diet in subjects with irritable bowel syndrome: A cross-sectional study in the general population
Solveig C Ligaarden, Stian Lydersen, Per G Farup
Elevated circulating soluble interleukin-2 receptor in patients with chronic liver diseases is associated with non-classical monocytes
Sebastian Seidler, Henning W Zimmermann, Ralf Weiskirchen, Christian Trautwein, Frank Tacke
The impact of Irritable Bowel Syndrome on health-related quality of life: a Singapore perspective
Yu Tien Wang, Hwee Yong Lim, David Tai, Thinesh L Krishnamoorthy, Tira Tan, Sylvaine Barbier, Julian Thumboo
Fibroblast growth factor 23 contributes to diminished bone mineral density in childhood inflammatory bowel disease
Mostafa Abdel-Aziz El-Hodhod, Ahmad Mohamed Hamdy, Amal Ahmed Abbas, Sherine George Moftah, Alhag Ahmed Mohamed Ramadan
Vertebral fractures in patients with inflammatory bowel disease COMPARED with a healthy population: a prospective case-control study
Ma Angeles Vázquez, Enrique Lopez, Ma José Montoya, Mercè Giner, Ramón Pérez-Temprano, Ramón Pérez-Cano
Ferritin above 100 mcg/L could rule out colon cancer, but not gastric or rectal cancer in patients with involuntary weight loss
Cristian Baicus, Simona Caraiola, Mihai Rimbas, Ruxandra Patrascu, Anda Baicus
Comparison of argon plasma coagulation in management of upper gastrointestinal angiodysplasia and gastric antral vascular ectasia hemorrhage
Yi-Chun Chiu, Lung-Sheng Lu, Keng-Liang Wu, William Tam, Ming-Luen Hu, Wei-Chen Tai, King-Wah Chiu, Seng-Kee Chuah
Imbalanced shift of cytokine expression between T helper 1 and T helper 2 (Th1/Th2) in intestinal mucosa of patients with post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome
Ji Chen, Yangde Zhang, Zhansheng Deng
Mitochondrial uncouplers inhibit hepatic stellate cell activation
Eduardo L Guimarães, Jan Best, Laurent Dollé, Mustapha Najimi, Etienne Sokal, Leo A van Grunsven
Goat milk with and without increased concentrations of lysozyme improves repair of intestinal cell damage induced by enteroaggregative Escherichia coli
Eunice B Carvalho, Elizabeth A Maga, Josiane S Quetz, Ila FN Lima, Hemerson YF Magalhães, Felipe AR Rodrigues, Antônio VA Silva, Mara MG Prata, Paloma A Cavalcante, Alexandre Havt, Marcelo Bertolini, Luciana R Bertolini, Aldo AM Lima
Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome (CVS): is there a difference based on onset of symptoms - pediatric versus adult?
Nilay Kumar, Qumseya Bashar, Naveen Reddy, Jyotirmoy Sengupta, Ashwin Ananthakrishnan, Abigail Schroeder, Walter J Hogan, Thangam Venkatesan
Comparative analysis of inflamed and non-inflamed colon biopsies reveals strong proteomic inflammation profile in patients with ulcerative colitis
Nina Aagaard Poulsen, Vibeke Andersen, Jens Christian Møller, Hanne Søndergaard Møller, Flemming Jessen, Stig Purup, Lotte Bach Larsen
13-year mortality trends among hospitalized patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Justin L Sewell, Hal F Yee Jr
High mobility group B1 impairs hepatocyte regeneration in acetaminophen hepatotoxicity
Runkuan Yang, Shutian Zhang, Antonella Cotoia, Niku Oksala, Shengtao Zhu, Jyrki Tenhunen
The clinical, endoscopic and histological spectrum of the solitary rectal ulcer syndrome: a single-center experience of 116 cases
Shahab Abid, Ali Khawaja, Salima Ahmed Bhimani, Zubair Ahmad, Saeed Hamid, Wasim Jafri
Back-to-Back Comparison of Auto-Fluorescence Imaging (AFI) Versus High Resolution White Light Colonoscopy for Adenoma Detection
Kentaro Moriichi, Mikihiro Fujiya, Ryu Sato, Jiro Watari, Yoshiki Nomura, Toshie Nata, Nobuhiro Ueno, Shigeaki Maeda, Shin Kashima, Kentaro Itabashi, Chisato Ishikawa, Yuhei Inaba, Takahiro Ito, Kotaro Okamoto, Hiroki Tanabe, Yusuke Mizukami, Yusuke Saitoh, Yutaka Kohgo
Capsule endoscopy with flexible spectral imaging color enhancement reduces the bile pigment effect and improves the detectability of small bowel lesions
Eiji Sakai, Hiroki Endo, Shingo Kato, Tetsuya Matsuura, Wataru Tomeno, Leo Taniguchi, Takashi Uchiyama, Yasuo Hata, Eiji Yamada, Hidenori Ohkubo, Takuma Higrashi, Kunihiro Hosono, Hirokazu Takahashi, Atsushi Nakajima
Faecal immunochemical test accuracy in patients referred for surveillance colonoscopy: a multi-centre cohort study
Jochim S Terhaar sive Droste, Sietze T van Turenhout, Frank A Oort, René WM van der Hulst, Vincent A Steeman, Usha Coblijn, Lisette van der Eem, Ruud Duijkers, Anneke A Bouman, Gerrit A Meijer, Annekatrien CTM Depla, Pieter Scholten, Ruud JLF Loffeld, Veerle MH Coupé, Chris JJ Mulder
CD44/CD24 Expression in recurrent gastric cancer: a retrospective analysis
Ching-Shya Yong, Chih-Ming Ou Yang, Yenn-Hwei Chou, Chao-Sheng Liao, Chung-Wei Lee, Chin-Cheng Lee
Evaluation of patient satisfaction of an outpatient gastroscopy service in an Asian tertiary care hospital
Najib Azmi, Wah-Kheong Chan, Khean-Lee Goh
Risk of inflammatory bowel disease following a diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome
Chad K Porter, Brooks D Cash, Mark Pimentel, Akintunde Akinseye, Mark S Riddle
Protective role of 1,25(OH)2vitamin D3 in the mucosal injury and epithelial barrier disruption in DSS-induced acute colitis in mice
Hongwei Zhao, Hong Zhang, Hui Wu, Hui Li, Lei Liu, Jian Guo, Chenyang Li, David Q Shih, Xiaolan Zhang
Diagnosing celiac disease by video capsule endoscopy (VCE) when esophogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) and biopsy is unable to provide a diagnosis: a case series
Matthew S Chang, Moshe Rubin, Suzanne K Lewis, Peter H Green
A magic pill? A qualitative analysis of patients’ views on the role of antidepressant therapy in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Antonina A Mikocka-Walus, Andrea L Gordon, Benjamin J Stewart, Jane M Andrews
Nasogastric tube insertion in anesthetized and intubated patients: a new and reliable method
Yung-Fong Tsai, Chiao-Fen Luo, Amina Illias, Chih-Chung Lin, Huang-Ping Yu
Primary Biliary Cirrhosis in a genetically homogeneous population: Disease associations and familial occurrence rates
Aikaterini Mantaka, Mairi Koulentaki, Gregory Chlouverakis, Jean Marie Enele-Melono, Aikaterini Darivianaki, Maria Tzardi, Elias A Kouroumalis
The i148m Pnpla3 polymorphism influences serum adiponectin in patients with fatty liver and healthy controls
Luca Valenti, Raffaela Rametta, Massimiliano Ruscica, Paola Dongiovanni, Liliana Steffani, Benedetta Maria Motta, Elena Canavesi, Anna Ludovica Fracanzani, Enrico Mozzi, Giancarlo Roviaro, Paolo Magni, Silvia Fargion
Blastocystosis in patients with gastrointestinal symptoms: a case–control study
Ayhan Hilmi Cekin, Yesim Cekin, Yesim Adakan, Ezel Tasdemir, Fatma Gulsun Koclar, Basak Oguz Yolcular
A comparison of the temporary placement of 3 different self-expanding stents for the treatment of refractory benign esophageal strictures: a prospective multicentre study
Jorge Manuel Tavares Canena, Manuel José Antunes Liberato, Ricardo António Natário Rio-Tinto, Pedro Miguel Pinto-Marques, Carlos Manuel Menezes Romão, António Vasco Mello Pereira Coutinho, Beatriz Alda Henriques Costa Neves, Maria Filipa Costa Neves Santos-Silva
Gastric cancer cell supernatant causes apoptosis and fibrosis in the peritoneal tissues and results in an environment favorable to peritoneal metastases, in vitro and in vivo
Di Na, Zhi-Dong Lv, Fu-Nan Liu, Yan Xu, Cheng-Gang Jiang, Zhe Sun, Zhi-Feng Miao, Feng Li, Hui-Mian Xu
Absence of Helicobacter pylori high tetracycline resistant 16S rDNA AGA926-928TTC genotype in gastric biopsy specimens from dyspeptic patients of a city in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil
Rodrigo Buzinaro Suzuki, Cristiane Maria Almeida, Márcia Aparecida Sperança
Spontaneous resolution of severe, symptomatic mesocolic panniculitis: a case report
Aurélie Daumas, Serge Agostini, Julia Villeret, Philippe Ah-Soune, Olivier Emungania, Brigitte Granel
Deletion of Foxp3+ regulatory T cells in genetically targeted mice supports development of intestinal inflammation
Franziska Boehm, Maria Martin, Rebecca Kesselring, Gabriela Schiechl, Edward K Geissler, Hans-Jürgen Schlitt, Stefan Fichtner-Feigl
Pancreatic-specific autoantibodies to glycoprotein 2 mirror disease location and behaviour in younger patients with Crohn’s disease
Dimitrios P Bogdanos, Dirk Roggenbuck, Dirk Reinhold, Thomas Wex, Polychronis Pavlidis, Ulrike von Arnim, Peter Malfertheiner, Alastair Forbes, Karsten Conrad, Martin W Laass
Autophagy and apoptosis-related genes in chronic liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma
Andromachi Kotsafti, Fabio Farinati, Romilda Cardin, Umberto Cillo, Donato Nitti, Marina Bortolami
A frequent variant in the human bile salt export pump gene ABCB11 is associated with hepatitis C virus infection, but not liver stiffness in a German population
Roman Müllenbach, Susanne N Weber, Marcin Krawczyk, Vincent Zimmer, Christoph Sarrazin, Frank Lammert, Frank Grünhage
Transporter function and cyclic AMP turnover in normal colonic mucosa from patients with and without colorectal neoplasia
Karen Kleberg, Gerda Majgaard Jensen, Dan Ploug Christensen, Morten Lundh, Lars Groth Grunnet, Svend Knuhtsen, Steen Seier Poulsen, Mark Berner Hansen, Niels Bindslev
Analysis of the causes and clinical characteristics of jejunoileal hemorrhage in China: a multicenter 10 year retrospective survey
Da-lei Jiang, Hui-ya Liu, Yong Yuan, Jian-chao Sui, Chang-chun Jing, Kai-tong Jiang, Qing-cai Wang, Sheng-an Yuan, Hai-ying Chen, Yan-jing Gao
Systemic administration of a novel human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells population accelerates the resolution of acute liver injury
Patrizia Burra, Diletta Arcidiacono, Debora Bizzaro, Tatiana Chioato, Rosa Di Liddo, Antara Banerjee, Andrea Cappon, Patrizio Bo, Maria Teresa Conconi, Pier Paolo Parnigotto, Silvia Mirandola, Enrico Gringeri, Amedeo Carraro, Umberto Cillo, Francesco Paolo Russo
Luminal lactate in acute pancreatitis - validation and relation to disease severity
Lauri Pynnönen, Minna Minkkinen, Sari Räty, Juhani Sand, Isto Nordback, Anders Perner, Jyrki Tenhunen
Endoscopic stenting for hilar cholangiocarcinoma: efficacy of unilateral and bilateral placement of plastic and metal stents in a retrospective review of 480 patients
Manuel José Antunes Liberato, Jorge Manuel Tavares Canena
Higher frequency of cagA EPIYA-C Phosphorylation Sites in H. pylori strains from first-degree relatives of gastric cancer patients
Dulciene MM Queiroz, Cícero ISM Silva, Maria HRB Goncalves, Manuel B Braga-Neto, Andréa BC Fialho, André MN Fialho, Gifone A Rocha, Andreia MC Rocha, Sérgio A Batista, Richard L Guerrant, Aldo AM Lima, Lucia LBC Braga
Cholecystomucoclasis: revaluation of safety and validity in aged populations
Tomoya Tsukada, Tatsuo Nakano, Takashi Miyata, Shozo Sasaki, Tetsuo Ohta
Effects of patient factors on noninvasive liver stiffness measurement using acoustic radiation force impulse elastography in patients with chronic hepatitis C
Sheng-Hung Chen, Yu-Fen Li, Hsueh-Chou Lai, Jung-Ta Kao, Cheng-Yuan Peng, Po-Heng Chuang, Wen-Pang Su, I-Ping Chiang
Hepatitis C virus E2 protein involve in insulin resistance through an impairment of Akt/PKB and GSK3β signaling in hepatocytes
Ming-Ju Hsieh, Kuang-Ping Lan, Hao-Yu Liu, Xiao-Zong Zhang, Yaw-Feng Lin, Tzy-Yen Chen, Hui-Ling Chiou
hTERT, MYC and TP53 deregulation in gastric preneoplastic lesions
Tanielly Cristina Raiol Silva, Mariana Ferreira Leal, Danielle Queiroz Calcagno, Carolina Rosal Teixeira de Souza, André Salim Khayat, Ney Pereira Carneiro dos Santos, Raquel Carvalho Montenegro, Silvia Helena Barem Rabenhorst, Mayara Quaresma Nascimento, Paulo Pimentel Assumpção, Marília de Arruda Cardoso Smith, Rommel Rodríguez Burbano
Increased proton pump inhibitor and NSAID exposure in irritable bowel syndrome: results from a case-control study
Daniel Keszthelyi, Gwen H Dackus, Gwen M Masclee, Joanna W Kruimel, Ad AM Masclee
A gluten-free diet effectively reduces symptoms and health care consumption in a Swedish celiac disease population
Fredrik Norström, Olof Sandström, Lars Lindholm, Anneli Ivarsson
Phase I study of miriplatin combined with transarterial chemotherapy using CDDP powder in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma
Kenya Kamimura, Takeshi Suda, Yasushi Tamura, Masaaki Takamura, Takeshi Yokoo, Masato Igarashi, Hirokazu Kawai, Satoshi Yamagiwa, Minoru Nomoto, Yutaka Aoyagi
Neonatal intrahepatic cholestasis caused by citrin deficiency: prevalence and SLC25A13mutations among thai infants
Suporn Treepongkaruna, Suttiruk Jitraruch, Porawee Kodcharin, Dussadee Charoenpipop, Pim Suwannarat, Paneeya Pienvichit, Keiko Kobayashi, Duangrurdee Wattanasirichaigoon
Surveillance cultures of samples obtained from biopsy channels and automated endoscope reprocessors after high-level disinfection of gastrointestinal endoscopes
King-Wah Chiu, Ming-Chao Tsai, Keng-Liang Wu, Yi-Chun Chiu, Ming-Tzung Lin, Tsung-Hui Hu
Interval colon cancer in a Lynch syndrome patient under annual colonoscopic surveillance: a case for advanced imaging techniques?
Amy S Oxentenko, Thomas C Smyrk
Prevalence and factors associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in shanghai work-units
Xiaona Hu, Yiqin Huang, Zhijun Bao, Yiqian Wang, Dongmei Shi, Fang Liu, Zhanjuan Gao, Xiaofeng Yu
A prospective longitudinal cohort study: evolution of GERD symptoms during the course of pregnancy
Sara Fill Malfertheiner, Maximilian V Malfertheiner, Siegfried Kropf, Serban-Dan Costa, Peter Malfertheiner
Predicting incident fatty liver using simple cardio-metabolic risk factors at baseline
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Candidiasis and other oral mucosal lesions during and after interferon therapy for HCV-related chronic liver diseases
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Macro-AST: misleading finding in an adolescent with MCAD-deficiency
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The optimal screening interval for gastric cancer using esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy in Japan
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Modified endoscopic submucosal dissection with enucleation for treatment of gastric subepithelial tumors originating from the muscularis propria layer
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The relationship between urban environment and the inflammatory bowel diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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IgG and IgG4 antibodies in subjects with irritable bowel syndrome: a case control study in the general population
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A prospective experimental study of liver fibrosis with ultrasound and its correlation with hepatic reserve function and hemodynamics
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The effect of hospital volume on patient outcomes in severe acute pancreatitis
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Effects of coffee, smoking, and alcohol on liver function tests: a comprehensive cross-sectional study
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Resolvin D1 reverses chronic pancreatitis-induced mechanical allodynia, phosphorylation of NMDA receptors, and cytokines expression in the thoracic spinal dorsal horn
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Risk of esophagus cancer in diabetes mellitus: a population-based case-control study in Taiwan
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Association of genetic variations in GNB1 with response to peginterferon plus ribavirin therapy for chronic hepatitis C in a Chinese population in Taiwan
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The Zelnorm epidemiologic study (ZEST): a cohort study evaluating incidence of abdominal and pelvic surgery related to tegaserod treatment
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High prevalence of celiac disease among Saudi children with type 1 diabetes: a prospective cross-sectional study
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A possible involvement of Nrf2-mediated heme oxygenase-1 up-regulation in protective effect of the proton pump inhibitor pantoprazole against indomethacin-induced gastric damage in rats
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Effects of crystalloids and colloids on liver and intestine microcirculation and function in cecal ligation and puncture induced septic rodents
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Colorectal cancer screening: Why immunochemical fecal occult blood tests may be the best option
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Percutaneous ultrasonographically guided liver punctures: an analysis of 1961 patients over a period of ten years
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Correlation of the presence and extent of loss of heterozygosity mutations with histological classifications of Barrett’s esophagus
Eric Ellsworth, Sara A Jackson, Shyam J Thakkar, Dennis M Smith Jr, Sydney Finkelstein
Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: primary care based pragmatic randomised controlled trial
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Development of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ Eosinophilic Esophagitis Module items: qualitative methods
James P Franciosi, Kevin A Hommel, Allison B Greenberg, Charles W DeBrosse, Alexandria J Greenler, J Pablo Abonia, Marc E Rothenberg, James W Varni
Efficacy of telbivudine in Taiwanese chronic hepatitis B patients compared with GLOBE extension study and predicting treatment outcome by HBV DNA kinetics at Week 24
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Study of the effect of antiviral therapy on homocysteinemia in hepatitis C virus- infected patients
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Prevalence and risk factors of gastroesophageal reflux symptoms in a Chinese retiree cohort
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Green tea consumption and risk of esophageal cancer: a meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies
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Role of vitamin K2 in preventing the recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma after curative treatment: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
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Additional corpus biopsy enhances the detection of Helicobacter pylori infection in a background of gastritis with atrophy
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Cost-effectiveness of acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: findings from an economic evaluation conducted alongside a pragmatic randomised controlled trial in primary care
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Serum parameters in the spectrum of coeliac disease: beyond standard antibody testing - a cohort study
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Comparison between the recovery time of alfentanil and fentanyl in balanced propofol sedation for gastrointestinal and colonoscopy: a prospective, randomized study
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