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 ...

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 ...

BACKGROUND Some patients with faecal incontinence are not amenable to simple surgical sphincter repair, due to sphincter weakness in the absence of a structural defect. AIMS To evaluate the efficacy ...

The sensitivities and specificities of the IgA and IgG antigliadin antibody and the IgA antireticulin antibody have been compared with the recently described endomysial antibody directed against the ...

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 ...

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Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, 55905 USA Correspondence to: Dr J H Szurszewski, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mayo Clinic ...

Objective Although immunoglobulin A (IgA) is abundantly expressed in the gut and known to be an important component of mucosal barriers against luminal pathogens, its precise function remains unclear.

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) is a nuclear receptor that regulates intestinal inflammation. PPARγ is highly expressed in the colon and can be activated by various dietary ...