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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

1 Department of Gastroenterology, Digestive Diseases Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 2 Department of Pathobiology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA ...

Dr M J A P Govers, Numico Research BV, PO Box 7005, 6700 CA Wageningen, The Netherlands. BACKGROUND Recent studies suggest that resistant starch (effective in producing butyrate and lowering possibly ...