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 ...

Introduction Decompensated chronic liver disease (DCLD) is a medical emergency with high mortality, usually managed by non-specialists in emergency (ED) and acute medical (AMU) departments in critical ...

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Colorectal (large bowel) cancer is the second commonest cause of cancer related death in the western world and there are more than 30 000 new cases per annum in the UK with an average five year ...

Correspondence to Dr Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei 100, Taiwan; chenlin{at}ntu.edu.tw Objective To ...

Correspondence to Professor Michelangelo Foti, Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva 1205, Switzerland; michelangelo.foti{at}unige.ch ...

The absorption of macromolecules from the small intestine of rats was studied in terms of the amount of peroxidase activity that appeared in thoracic duct lymph after a 10 mg dose of horseradish ...

Background Obesity is associated with accumulation of macrophages in white adipose tissue (WAT), which contribute to the development of insulin resistance. Germ-free (GF) mice have reduced adiposity ...

Objective Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a defective mono-stranded DNA virus, endemic in human population (35%–80%). Recurrent clonal AAV2 insertions are ...