Distinct temporal-spatial roles for rho kinase and myosin light chain kinase in epithelial purse-string wound closure.

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:This study used a low lesion prevalence population reflective of the screening setting to estimate the sensitivity and specificity of computerized tomographic (CT) colonography for detection of colorectal polyps. METHODS:This prospective, blinded study comprised 703 asymptomatic persons at higher-tha...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Johnson CD,Harmsen WS,Wilson LA,Maccarty RL,Welch TJ,Ilstrup DM,Ahlquist DA

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence showing that interstitial cells of Cajal have important regulatory functions in the gut musculature is accumulating. In the current study, the ultrastructure of the deep muscular plexus and associated interstial cells of Cajal in human small intestine were studied to provide a reference for identification and...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Rumessen JJ,Mikkelsen HB,Thuneberg L

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized, double-blind comparison of lactose enemas plus placebo tablets vs. starch enemas plus neomycin tablets was performed on 18 patients with acute portal systemic encephalopathy. Ten patients received starch enemas (10%; 1000 ml t.i.d.) plus neomycin tablets and 8 patients received lactose enemas (20%; 1000 ...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Uribe M,Berthier JM,Lewis H,Mata JM,Sierra JG,García-Ramos G,Ramírez Acosta J,Dehesa M

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:High-carbohydrate diets with a high glycemic response may exacerbate the metabolic consequences of the insulin-resistance syndrome. The effect on the incidence of gallstone disease is not clear. METHODS:We examined the associations between high-carbohydrate diets with a high glycemic response and the...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Tsai CJ,Leitzmann MF,Willett WC,Giovannucci EL

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assimilation of labeled cobalamin and the transport of corrinoids in portal blood, peripheral venous blood, and bile were studied in eight cholecystectomized patients, after ingestion of a dose of cyano[57Co]cobalamin (0.5 microCi). The radioactivity appeared in the portal vein after a delay of 1.5-2 hours and in ...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： el Kholty S,Gueant JL,Bressler L,Djalali M,Boissel P,Gerard P,Nicolas JP

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the effect of oral cisapride (10 mg t.i.d.) in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in 26 patients with upper gut dysmotility: 11 with gastroparesis (8 diabetic, 3 idiopathic) and 15 with chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction. Patients were evaluated at entry and at the end of the 6-...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Camilleri M,Malagelada JR,Abell TL,Brown ML,Hench V,Zinsmeister AR

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Approximately 10% of children on the liver transplant wait-list in the United States die every year. We examined deceased donor liver offer acceptance patterns and their contribution to pediatric wait-list mortality. METHODS:We performed a retrospective cohort study of children on the US liver transp...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Hsu EK,Shaffer ML,Gao L,Sonnenday C,Volk ML,Bucuvalas J,Lai JC

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Liver fibrosis, hepatocellular necrosis, inflammation, and proliferation of liver progenitor cells are features of chronic liver injury. Mouse models have been used to study the end-stage pathophysiology of chronic liver injury. However, little is known about differences in the mechanisms of liver inj...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Pradhan-Sundd T,Vats R,Russell JO,Singh S,Michael AA,Molina L,Kakar S,Cornuet P,Poddar M,Watkins SC,Nejak-Bowen KN,Monga SP,Sundd P

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:There have been conflicting results on a cell of origin in pancreatic regeneration. These discrepancies predominantly stem from lack of specific markers for the pancreatic precursors/stem cells, as well as differences in the targeted cells and severity of tissue injury in the experimental models so fa...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Criscimanna A,Speicher JA,Houshmand G,Shiota C,Prasadan K,Ji B,Logsdon CD,Gittes GK,Esni F

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is described with Campylobacter enteritis complicated by massive lower gastrointestinal bleeding from multiple mucosal ulcers in the terminal ileum and at the ileocecal valve. Repeated stool cultures and antibiotic therapy may be indicated in certain patients to diminish the morbidity arising from what may s...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Michalak DM,Perrault J,Gilchrist MJ,Dozois RR,Carney JA,Sheedy PF 2nd

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Mechanisms responsible for crypt architectural distortion in chronic ulcerative colitis (CUC) are not well understood. Data indicate that serine/threonine protein kinase Akt (Akt) signaling cooperates with Wingless (Wnt) to activate beta-catenin in intestinal stem and progenitor cells through phosphor...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Lee G,Goretsky T,Managlia E,Dirisina R,Singh AP,Brown JB,May R,Yang GY,Ragheb JW,Evers BM,Weber CR,Turner JR,He XC,Katzman RB,Li L,Barrett TA

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Caspases are critical mediators of apoptosis and proliferation of peripheral blood T cells (PBT), but their role in lamina propria T cells (LPT), a cell population highly susceptible to apoptosis, has not been explored. METHODS:RA(+), RO(+) PBT, and LPT were activated with CD3, CD2, and CD28 antibodi...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Sturm A,Mohr S,Fiocchi C

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:The host immune response during the chronic phase of hepatitis C virus infection varies among individuals; some patients have a no interferon (IFN) response in the liver, whereas others have full activation of IFN-stimulated genes (ISGs). Preactivation of this endogenous IFN system is associated with ...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Dill MT,Duong FH,Vogt JE,Bibert S,Bochud PY,Terracciano L,Papassotiropoulos A,Roth V,Heim MH

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Prostacyclin and nitric oxide have been involved in the hyperkinetic syndrome in portal hypertension. The aim of this study was to investigate the relative contribution and possible interaction between prostacyclin and NO in this circulatory abnormality. METHODS:Portal vein-ligated and sham-operated ...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Fernández M,García-Pagán JC,Casadevall M,Mourelle MI,Piqué JM,Bosch J,Rodés J

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is one of the most common causes of liver enzyme elevation in the West. Its prevalence is likely to increase further, paralleling the epidemic increase of the metabolic syndrome. Serotonin degradation by monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) was recently implicated as an im...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Nocito A,Dahm F,Jochum W,Jang JH,Georgiev P,Bader M,Renner EL,Clavien PA

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors responsible for prevention of duodenal mucosal injury are not known. This series of experiments was performed to determine whether the human duodenum secretes bicarbonate that could prevent mucosal damage. To isolate a 4-cm segment of proximal (i.e., the duodenal bulb) or distal duodenum free of contaminat...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Isenberg JI,Hogan DL,Koss MA,Selling JA

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment of disease activity in Crohn's disease involves determination of either clinical indexes (e.g., Crohn's disease activity index) or laboratory measurements (e.g., C-reactive protein and erythrocyte sedimentation rate). These have the disadvantage of being indirect and nonspecific correlates of gut inflam...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Saverymuttu SH,Peters AM,Lavender JP,Pepys MB,Hodgson HJ,Chadwick VS

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Dihydroxy bile acids induce a bicarbonate-rich hypercholeresis when secreted into canalicular bile in unconjugated form; the mechanism is cholehepatic shunting. The aim of this study was to identify a xenobiotic that induces hypercholeresis by a similar mechanism. METHODS:Five organic acids (sulindac...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Bolder U,Trang NV,Hagey LR,Schteingart CD,Ton-Nu HT,Cerrè C,Elferink RP,Hofmann AF

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the response of lymphocytes from 43 patients with inflammatory bowel disease to allogeneic stimulation in one-way mixed-lymphocyte cultures. We found that 53% of patients with inflammatory bowel disease, in contrast to 4% of normal and disease controls, had significant depression of mixed-lymphocyte culture...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Fiske SC,Falchuk ZM

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent periodic acid-Schiff reaction (FPR) was used in the study of the normal rabbit ileal epithelium and its changes after injection of living cultures or enterotoxins of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. This reaction, with the use of auramine OO-SO2 complex as a Schiff-type reagent, demonstrates gut epitheliu...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Khavkin TN,Kudryavtseva MV,Dragunskaya EM,Polotsky YE,Kudryavtsev BN

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Most cholesterol gallstones have a pigmented center, but it is unclear whether its presence is primary or secondary. This study was performed to determine if bilirubin would accumulate in a gallstone model consisting of cholesterol pellets. METHODS:Cholesterol was compressed into pellets at 2500 psi,...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Sanabria JR,Gordon ER,Harvey PR,Goresky CA,Strasberg SM

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the utility of jejunal manometry in evaluating patients having partial small intestinal obstruction or the pseudoobstruction syndrome. We studied 10 healthy volunteers, 9 patients with documented mechanical obstruction, and 3 patients with chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Summers RW,Anuras S,Green J

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Liver injury leads to generation of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, which can react to produce peroxynitrite (ONOO-). We investigated whether ONOO- and its metabolites modulate extracellular matrix remodeling. METHODS:Stellate cells (HSC) were incubated with pure ONOO- or SIN-1 (a ONOO- donor)....

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Urtasun R,Cubero FJ,Vera M,Nieto N

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori infection has been associated with gastritis, duodenal ulcer, gastric ulcer, and the epidemic form of gastric carcinoma. Eradication of H. pylori infection has proven to be difficult. Recently, combinations of antimicrobial drugs have been shown to eradicate greater than 50% of infections; however,...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Graham DY,Lew GM,Malaty HM,Evans DG,Evans DJ Jr,Klein PD,Alpert LC,Genta RM

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating precursors of mucosal immunoglobulin A plasma cells and T-cell immunoblasts migrate selectively into mucosal sites from the blood, but the mechanisms controlling this selective trafficking have not been determined. One possibility is that the site-specific extravasation of circulating effector cell populat...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Schmitz M,Nunez D,Butcher EC

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The role of selectins in experimental colitis remains unknown. The aims of this study were to characterize the time-course expression of selectins in trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (TNBS)-induced colitis, the functional role of selectins in colonic leukocyte-endothelial cell interactions, and the the...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Sans M,Salas A,Soriano A,Prats N,Gironella M,Pizcueta P,Elena M,Anderson DC,Piqué JM,Panés J

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Thyroid hormones are implicated in intestinal development. Their effects are mediated by nuclear receptors, which are transcriptional regulators activated upon binding of triiodothyronine. The aim of this study was to define the involvement of the receptor subtypes during intestinal development. METH...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Plateroti M,Chassande O,Fraichard A,Gauthier K,Freund JN,Samarut J,Kedinger M

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we reported that two glycoproteins, carcinoembryonic antigen and secretory component, are preferentially expressed on the apical or laterobasal surfaces, respectively, of normal human colonic epithelial cells, whereas these antigens may be expressed over the entire cell surface of colonic cancer cells. The...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Sugiyama T,Brown WR,Ahnen DJ

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:There is controversy over the optimal management strategy for patients with acute pancreatitis (AP). Studies have shown a hospital volume benefit for in-hospital mortality after surgery, and we examined whether a similar mortality benefit exists for patients admitted with AP. METHODS:Using the Nation...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Singla A,Simons J,Li Y,Csikesz NG,Ng SC,Tseng JF,Shah SA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Patients with inflammatory bowel disease who are in remission and those who developed irritable bowel syndrome after enteric infection continue to have symptoms of diarrhea or constipation in the absence of overt inflammation, indicating motility dysfunction. We investigated whether oxidative stress d...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Choi K,Chen J,Mitra S,Sarna SK

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00