Suppression of hepatitis C virus replication by cyclosporin a is mediated by blockade of cyclophilins.

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Corticofugal pathways to the human esophagus have been recently identified in humans using transcranial magnetic stimulation. The aim of this study was to determine the topographic representation of the esophagus on the cerebral cortex. METHODS:Focal magnetic stimulation of 1-cm areas was performed o...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Aziz Q,Rothwell JC,Hamdy S,Barlow J,Thompson DG

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Capsaicin-sensitive neurons contain various peptides including calcitonin gene-related peptide. This study examines (1) whether calcitonin gene-related peptide is involved in capsaicin-induced gastroprotection and (2) whether nitric oxide and prostaglandin are required for calcitonin gene-related peptide to ...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Lambrecht N,Burchert M,Respondek M,Müller KM,Peskar BM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:The optimal strategy for the detection of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) gene carriers remains uncertain. We evaluated whether microsatellite instability (MSI) analysis or MSH2 and MLH1 protein immunostaining of tumors will screen individuals efficiently for germline MSH2 and MLH1 t...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Terdiman JP,Gum JR Jr,Conrad PG,Miller GA,Weinberg V,Crawley SC,Levin TR,Reeves C,Schmitt A,Hepburn M,Sleisenger MH,Kim YS

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Crohn's disease has a bimodal age distribution of disease onset diagnosis. The peaks (20 and 50 years) may represent different phenotypes or different genetic and/or environmental influences between younger- and older-onset individuals. The aim of this study was to examine the influences of age at dia...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Polito JM 2nd,Childs B,Mellits ED,Tokayer AZ,Harris ML,Bayless TM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Despite intensive investigations, very little is known about the molecular identity(ies) of the intestinal folate transport system(s), especially in humans. The aim of this study was to isolate a functional human intestinal folate carrier complementary DNA (cDNA) clone and determine the distribution o...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Nguyen TT,Dyer DL,Dunning DD,Rubin SA,Grant KE,Said HM

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:The evaluation of patients with chronic watery diarrhea represents a diagnostic challenge for clinicians because organic causes, including inflammatory bowel disease, microscopic colitis, and chronic infection, must be differentiated from functional diarrhea and diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel sy...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Carrasco-Labra A,Lytvyn L,Falck-Ytter Y,Surawicz CM,Chey WD

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Infliximab is effective in closing fistulas in patients with Crohn's disease. We examined the effect of infliximab maintenance treatment on hospitalizations, surgeries, and procedures in patients with fistulizing Crohn's disease enrolled in the ACCENT II study. METHODS:After 5 mg/kg infliximab at wee...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Lichtenstein GR,Yan S,Bala M,Blank M,Sands BE

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to identify the different amino acid transport pathways present in the human small intestine during the early gestational period. The uptake time courses of neutral (L-leucine, L-alanine, L-methionine), acidic (L-glutamic and D-aspartic acids), basic (L-lysine), and imino (L-proline) a...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Malo C

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The gastric mucosa is covered by a continuous layer of bicarbonate-containing mucus gel; the question arises how acid, formed in the gastric glands, moves into the lumen. METHODS:The pH in the gastric mucus gel and gel thickness were measured in anesthetized rats with pH-sensitive microelectrodes (tip ...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Schade C,Flemström G,Holm L

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Sigmoidoscopy is an effective screening strategy for colorectal cancer that is not widely used by primary care providers. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of "academic detailing" in the form of an outreach educational seminar combined with implementation of on-site sigmoidoscopy services...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Schroy PC,Heeren T,Bliss CM,Pincus J,Wilson S,Prout M

更新日期：1999-08-01 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 AND AIMS:Cholestasis is one of the principal manifestations of liver disease and often results from disorders involving bile duct epithelia rather than hepatocytes. A range of disorders affects biliary epithelia, and no unifying pathophysiologic event in these cells has been identified as the cause of choles...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Shibao K,Hirata K,Robert ME,Nathanson MH

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty patients with antimicrobiol-associated diarrhea had a symptomatic relapse after oral vancomycin therapy. All patients had stool examinations which implicated C. difficile as the causative agent, and 16 had pseudomembranous colitis. Clinical courses were characterized by resolution of symptoms with recurrence of...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Bartlett JG,Tedesco FJ,Shull S,Lowe B,Chang T

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with post-traumatic seizure disorder developed lymphadenopathy, exfoliative dermatitis, and hepatic failure while on diphenylhydantoin therapy and died in hepatic coma. Autopsy disclosed massive hepatic necrosis. The clinical and pathological pictures are similar to the six previously reported cases of diphe...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Lee TJ,Carney CN,Lapis JL,Higgins T,Fallon HJ

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:IKBL gene lies telomeric of the tumor necrosis factor cluster in the central major histocompatibility complex and carries a structural polymorphism at position +738. In the Spanish white population, we found the IKBL+738(C) allele in haplotypes carrying either HLA-DRB1(*)1501 or -DRB1(*)0103. Because ...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： de la Concha EG,Fernandez-Arquero M,Lopez-Nava G,Martin E,Allcock RJ,Conejero L,Paredes JG,Diaz-Rubio M

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is a 37-amino acid peptide localized to primary sensory afferent nerves in the rat stomach. The actions of CGRP in regulating antral neuroendocrine function were examined in vitro through the use of capsaicin, an agent capable of evoking neuropeptide release from periph...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Ren J,Young RL,Lassiter DC,Harty RF

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In neurogenic fecal incontinence there is denervation of the external anal sphincter and pelvic floor muscles but the role of the internal anal sphincter is incompletely understood. We have evaluated the internal anal sphincter in 6 patients with neurogenic incontinence undergoing postanal repair and in 7 control subj...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Lubowski DZ,Nicholls RJ,Burleigh DE,Swash M

更新日期：1988-10-01 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 efficacy of cimetidine (1.6 g per day) was evaluated using a double blind placebo-controlled trial in 24 patients with moderate or severe peptic reflux esophagitis. The results show that cimetidine is superior to placebo when using endoscopic and histological criteria. Improved patient symptomatology and lower ant...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Wesdorp E,Bartelsman J,Pape K,Dekker W,Tytgat GN

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular casts of human oxyntic mucosa, examined by scanning electron microscopy, revealed that (a) arterial breakup occurs only at the submucosal aspect of the mucosa, there being no arterial vessels further into the mucosa and (b) mucosal capillaries drain into the infrequent mucosal venules only in the most luminal...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Gannon B,Browning J,O'Brien P,Rogers P

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a leading cause of end-stage liver disease. Interferon-α (IFNα) is an important component of anti-HCV therapy; it up-regulates transcription of IFN-stimulated genes, many of which have been investigated for their antiviral effects. However, all of the genes require...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Fusco DN,Brisac C,John SP,Huang YW,Chin CR,Xie T,Zhao H,Jilg N,Zhang L,Chevaliez S,Wambua D,Lin W,Peng L,Chung RT,Brass AL

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro studies have shown that some bile salts inhibit the growth of intestinal bacteria. We investigated the possibility that bile salts might have a similar action in vivo in the ileum by performing serial anaerobic cultures and bile salt analyses on postprandial ileal fluid obtained anaerobically via intestinal t...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Williams RC,Showalter R,Kern F Jr

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of cholesterol and bile acid was determined from a 10-week analysis of the biliary lipids after a single injection of labeled cholesterol in parallel with a conventional 1-week study of primary bile acid kinetics. Six healthy controls and 6 patients with cholesterol cholelithiasis were studied. Two of the...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Hepner GW,Quarfordt SH

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initially, scintigraphy was established as a valid method for detecting and quantitating enterogastric reflux. A new, tubeless technique for the measurement of enterogastric reflux was developed. 99mTc bound to [(2,6 dimethylphenylcarbamoylmethyl) iminodiacetic acid] (5 mCi) was administered intravenously to visualize...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Tolin RD,Malmud LS,Stelzer F,Menin R,Makler PT Jr,Applegate G,Fisher RS

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Human primary liver cancer is classified into biologically distinct subgroups based on cellular origin. Liver cancer stem cells (CSCs) have been recently described. We investigated the ability of distinct lineages of hepatic cells to become liver CSCs and the phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity of pr...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Holczbauer Á,Factor VM,Andersen JB,Marquardt JU,Kleiner DE,Raggi C,Kitade M,Seo D,Akita H,Durkin ME,Thorgeirsson SS

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Host genetic factors are likely to contribute to the variable course of hepatic fibrosis in response to chronic liver injury. Similarly, the fibrotic response differs among inbred mouse strains after challenge with CCl(4). Our aim was to identify unknown susceptibility loci for hepatic fibrosis in a c...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Hillebrandt S,Goos C,Matern S,Lammert F

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Genetic variation is invoked as a strong component underlying primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) and other autoimmune disorders. Data suggest that some of this genetic risk is shared, affecting function of the immune mechanisms controlling self-tolerance. Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA4) encodes ...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Juran BD,Atkinson EJ,Schlicht EM,Fridley BL,Lazaridis KN

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Congenital tufting enteropathy (CTE) is a rare autosomal recessive diarrheal disorder presenting in the neonatal period. CTE is characterized by intestinal epithelial cell dysplasia leading to severe malabsorption and significant morbidity and mortality. The pathogenesis and genetics of this disorder ...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Sivagnanam M,Mueller JL,Lee H,Chen Z,Nelson SF,Turner D,Zlotkin SH,Pencharz PB,Ngan BY,Libiger O,Schork NJ,Lavine JE,Taylor S,Newbury RO,Kolodner RD,Hoffman HM

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Among the human mucin complementary DNAs thus far identified, two (MUC5AC and MUC6) were cloned from stomach libraries. This study examines the distribution of MUC6 in normal tissues and compares it with that of MUC5AC as well as with the expression of Lewis blood group antigens. METHODS:Affinity-pur...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： De Bolós C,Garrido M,Real FX

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 17-yr-old boy developed acute proctosigmoiditis after the institution of isotretinoin for the treatment of cystic acne vulgaris. Painless diarrhea, accompanied by mucus and eventually blood, began within days of commencing treatment and persisted while the drug was administered. At sigmoidoscopy patchy mucosal infla...

journal_title：Gastroenterology

authors： Martin P,Manley PN,Depew WT,Blakeman JM

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00