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 ...

Dr J A Williams, Department of Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, 7744 Medical Science Building II, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0622, USA. jawillms{at}umich.edu Arginine induced acute ...

1 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA 2 Division of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA Correspondence to: Dr E V ...

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 ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an emerging global disease characterised by chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. However, IBD is also manifested by several extraintestinal symptoms ...

In the past few years, optical magnification endoscopy and chromoscopy have gained renewed interest in the West as a means for the early detection of minute lesions in patients with Barrett’s ...

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 ...