Background Ultra-short coeliac disease (USCD) is defined as villous atrophy only present in the duodenal bulb (D1) with concurrent positive coeliac serology. We present the first, multicentre, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Introduction The BSG guidelines recommend anti tissue transglutaminase antibody (TTG) testing as a first line test for coeliac disease. Duodenal biopsies (D2) should be performed only after a positive ...
Dr G Fattovich, Servizio Autonomo Clinicizzato di Gastroenterologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche e Gastroenterologiche, Università di Verona, Via delle Menegone 10, 37134 Verona, Italy ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Laboratory for Enteric Neuroscience (LENS), TARGID, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Correspondence to Professor Pieter Vanden Berghe, Laboratory for Enteric Neuroscience (LENS), TARGID, KU Leuven, O&N 1 ...
UCLA Center for Neurovisceral Sciences & Women’s Health, Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA UCLA Center for Neurovisceral ...
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic inflammatory liver disease which, if untreated, often leads to cirrhosis, liver failure and death. Major advances were made in its management based on ...
Cyclooxygenase (COX), the key enzyme for synthesis of prostaglandins, exists in two isoforms (COX-1 and COX-2). COX-1 is constitutively expressed in the gastrointestinal tract in large quantities and ...