The effects of sodium butyrate and sodium bromo-octanoate (an inhibitor of beta oxidation) on colonic mucus glycoprotein (mucin) synthesis have been assessed using tissue from colonic resection ...
Correspondence to Dr Melina Arnold, Section of Cancer Surveillance, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, Lyon 69008, France; arnoldm{at}fellows.iarc.fr Objective The ...
Objective The gut microbiota has been implicated in the aetiology of obesity and associated comorbidities. Patients with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) are obese but partly protected against insulin ...
While extensive previous references in the literature leave little doubt that disease in the posterior pararenal space can obliterate the psoas margin either in its entirety or in part, little work ...
Objective The significance of the liver-microbiome axis has been increasingly recognised as a major modulator of autoimmunity. The aim of this study was to take advantage of a large well-defined ...
a Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, b Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, ...
5 Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Shanghai, China Objective Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), mostly developed in fibrotic/cirrhotic liver, exhibits ...
Professor J P Galmiche, Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine, CRI INSERM 95-08, CHU, Hôtel Dieu, Place A Ricordeau, 44035 Nantes cedex 01, France. Email:galmiche{at}easynet.fr BACKGROUND/AIM ...
Dr A B Pulimood, Department of Surgery, School of Surgical Sciences, Medical School, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4HH, UK. BACKGROUND Intestinal tuberculosis and Crohn’s disease ...
Background: The enzyme methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) catalyses the formation of folate intermediates that are vital to methylation reactions. A polymorphic variant (TT) has been linked ...
The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Christine A Iacobuzio-Donahue, Associate Professor of Pathology, ...
Objective: Persistent stress and life events affect the course of ulcerative colitis and irritable bowel syndrome by largely unknown mechanisms. Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) has been ...