Objective Cancer immunology is a growing field of research whose aim is to develop innovative therapies and diagnostic tests. Starting from the hypothesis that immune cells promptly respond to harmful ...
Objective Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a multifactorial immune-mediated inflammatory disease of the intestine, comprising Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. By characterising metabolites ...
Objective Hepatic stellate cells (HSC) transdifferentiation into myofibroblasts is central to fibrogenesis. Epigenetic mechanisms, including histone and DNA methylation, play a key role in this ...
Intestinal Disease Research Program, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8N 3Z5, Canada M H Perdue, Intestinal Disease ...
1 Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2 Department of Gastroenterology, Ruijing Hospital North, School of Medicine, ...
Objective To appraise the evidence that pathophysiological mechanisms and individualised treatment directed at those mechanisms provide an alternative approach to the treatment of patients with ...
2 Key Laboratory of Human Microbiome and Chronic Diseases (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China Background Tumourigenesis in right-sided and left-sided colons demonstrated ...
Correspondence to Dr Barham K Abu Dayyeh, Clinical Enteric Neuroscience Translational and Epidemiological Research (C.E.N.T.E.R), Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, ...
Mrs K Cauch-Dudek, Toronto Hospital, Western Division, 399 Bathurst St, West Wing 4–833, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2S8, Canada. Background—Fatigue is a frequent and debilitating symptom in patients with ...
Objective To determine whether proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer, compared with histamine-2 receptor antagonists (H2RAs). Design The United ...
1 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2 Department of Experimental Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ...
Background: Three large randomised trials have shown that screening for colorectal cancer using faecal occult blood (FOB) tests can reduce the mortality from this disease. Two national pilot studies ...