Introduction Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic gastrointestinal disease caused by an aberrant immune response in the gut. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common disease that may be ...

Introduction Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) is characterised by symptoms (most commonly heartburn) caused by exposure of the oesophageal mucosa to gastric contents. Usually, the macroscopic ...

a Digestive Disease Research Center/Neuroenteric Biology Group, Department of Medicine, UCLA and West LA VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA, b Section of Gastroenterology (111G-1), Tucson ...

Professor G P vanBerge-Henegouwen, Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Utrecht, PO Box 85500, Utrecht, The Netherlands. If you wish to reuse any or ...

1 Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia 2 Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia 3 Department of ...

Objective Data from clinical research suggest that certain probiotic bacterial strains have the potential to modulate colonic inflammation. Nonetheless, these data differ between studies due to the ...

Correspondence to Dr Noel F C C de Miranda, Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; N.F.de_Miranda{at}lumc.nl Objective A comprehensive understanding of anticancer immune ...

Professor M Trevisan, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 270 Farber Hall, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, New York 14214–3000, USA. Email: trevisan{at ...

1 Nashville VA Medical Center and the Departments of Surgery and Cell and Developmental Biology, Epithelial Biology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA 2 ...

Background: Mouse models of colitis and cancer are indispensable for our understanding of the pathogenesis of these diseases. In the past, mice had to be sacrificed in order to analyse colitis ...

Functional dyspepsia is a symptom complex characterised by postprandial upper abdominal discomfort or pain, early satiety, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, bloating, and anorexia in the absence ...

Alcohol-associated hepatitis (AH) is the acute deterioration of alcohol-related liver disease (ArLD) with rapid onset or ...