3 Center for Children Health Services, Reykjavík, and Sudurnes Health Institute, Keflavik, Iceland 4 Department of Medicine, GKT Medical School, London, UK Correspondence to: Professor I Bjarnason, ...

Systemic therapy represents the standard of care treatment for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Given the increased risk of death from cirrhosis-related complications in patients ...

Background Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are characterised by dysbiosis and a leaky gut. The NADPH oxidase dual oxidase 2 (DUOX2) is upregulated in patients with IBD, yet its role in driving the ...

a Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study Group, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, UK, b Gastroenterology Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK Dr R N Allan, Queen Elizabeth ...

Correspondence to Professor Jun Yu, Institute of Digestive Disease, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; ...

Correspondence to Brian B Scott, Department of Medicine, Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln LN2 5QY, UK; drbbscott{at}aol.com Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) occurs in 2–5% of adult men and postmenopausal ...

Objective Induction of immune protection against pathogens is particularly crucial during the neonatal period dominated by anti-inflammatory and tolerance immunity. The preclinical study was carried ...

Correspondence to Dr Eileen Morgan, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 69372 Lyon CEDEX 08, France; morgane{at}iarc.who.int Objective Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer ...

7 Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany 8 Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Objective Bacterial translocation to ...

3 German Centre for Infection Research (Deutsches Zentrum für Infektionsforschung DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Hannover, Germany 4 Computational Biology for Individualised Medicine, ...

Background and aims: It has been suggested that gastric cardia adenocarcinoma (GCA) is a distinct entity from oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OA). We examined several ...

The effects of loperamide on net solute and water absorption, and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and cholera toxin-induced secretion were studied in the rat jejunum using an in vivo steady-state perfusion ...