Epidemiology and gene markers of ulcerative colitis in the Chinese.

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) results from the interaction between an individual's immune response and precipitant environmental factors, which generate an anomalous chronic inflammatory response in those who are genetically predisposed. Various feeding practices have been implicated in the origin of IBD based on e...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Lucendo AJ,De Rezende LC

更新日期：2009-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A preduodenal portal vein (PDPV) is known to be a rare cause of duodenal stenosis. We treated a 22-year-old male patient with malnutrition as a result of PDPV and a previously performed operation for scoliosis, who showed an improvement in quality of life after being treated with a combination of nutritional support a...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Masumoto K,Teshiba R,Esumi G,Nagata K,Nakatsuji T,Nishimoto Y,Yamaguchi S,Sumitomo K,Taguchi T

更新日期：2009-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Oxygen free radical mediated tissue damage is well established in pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis (AP). Whether nitric oxide (NO) plays a deleterious or a protective role is unknown. In alcohol-induced AP, we studied NO, lipooxidative damage and glutathione in pancreas, lung and circulation. METHODS:AP was indu...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Andican G,Gelisgen R,Unal E,Tortum OB,Dervisoglu S,Karahasanoglu T,Burçak G

更新日期：2005-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is currently one of the most important public health problems in the world. Pancreatic cancer is a fatal disease with poor prognosis. As in most other countries, the health burden of pancreatic cancer in China is increasing, with annual mortality rates almost equal to incidence rates. The increasing trend of pa...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Lin QJ,Yang F,Jin C,Fu DL

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the association between interleukin-28B (IL28B) genotype and response to treatment and hepatic fibrosis in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 4. METHODS:Two hundred and one HCV-genotype 4 patients were included. All patients were treated with Peginterferon alph2a/Ribavirin for 48 wk. End...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Derbala M,Rizk N,Shebl F,Alkaabi S,Eldweik N,John A,Sharma M,Yaqoob R,Almohanadi M,Butt M,Alejji K

更新日期：2012-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To explore the effects of the nucleoside analogues beta-L-D4A and beta-LPA on hepatitis B virus (HBV) promoters. METHODS:Four HBV promoters were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and subcloned into the expression vector pEGFP-1. The four recombinants controlled by HBV promoters were confirmed by restric...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： He XX,Lin JS,Chang Y,Zhang YH,Li Y,Wang XY,Xu D,Cheng XM

更新日期：2008-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer patients have unique problems associated with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and treatment not seen in the general population. HCV infection poses additional challenges and considerations for the management of cancer, and vice versa. HCV infection also can lead to the development of cancer, particularly hepa...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Borchardt RA,Torres HA

更新日期：2014-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Although primary gastrointestinal lymphoma is a rare malignancy, it can cause an intussusception in adults and can be a clinically challenging condition to manage. Intussusception could progress to life-threatening complications if left untreated or could delay chemotherapy if inappropriate surgical management is used...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Yang TW,Lin YY,Tsuei YW,Chen YL,Huang CY,Hsu SD

更新日期：2016-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the impact of arachidonic acid (AA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and their combination on colon cancer cell growth. METHODS:The LS-174T colon cancer cell line was used to study the role of the prostaglandin precursor AA and the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid DHA on cell growth. Cell viability ...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Habbel P,Weylandt KH,Lichopoj K,Nowak J,Purschke M,Wang JD,He CW,Baumgart DC,Kang JX

更新日期：2009-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine if liver stiffness (LS) measurements by means of transient elastography (TE) correlate with the presence of significant esophageal varices (EV) and if they can predict the occurrence of variceal bleeding. METHODS:We studied 1000 cases of liver cirrhosis divided into 2 groups: patients without EV or wi...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Sporea I,Raţiu I,Sirli R,Popescu A,Bota S

更新日期：2011-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the lung is the major site for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, gastrointestinal involvement can be present as part of multiorgan disease process or, less commonly, can be seen as primary gastrointestinal tuberculosis. In the cases where the culture is negative, it can be difficult to differentiate tuber...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Settbas Y,Alper M,Akcan Y,Gurbuz Y,Oksuz S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To study the dose-dependent of progesterone (P) effect and the interaction between the oxytocin (OT) and P on gastrointestinal motility. METHODS:In order to monitor the gastric emptying and intestinal transit, the SD male rats were intubated via a catheter with normal saline (3 ml/kg) containing Na(2)(51)CrO(4) (0...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Liu CY,Chen LB,Liu PY,Xie DP,Wang PS

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine the association between parity and gastric cancer (the cases are almost all premenopausal women) risk in a cohort of young parous women. METHODS:The study cohort consisted of all women with a record of a first and singleton childbirth in the Birth Register between 1978 and 1987. We tracked each woman fr...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Chang CC,Chen CC,Chiu HF,Yang CY

更新日期：2011-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the clinicopathologic characteristics, risk factors, and prognosis for synchronous multiple early gastric cancer (SMGC). METHODS:A total of 146 patients with SMGC and 1194 patients with single gastric cancer who had undergone gastrectomy between 1989 and 2008 were retrospectively analyzed to determine th...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Isobe T,Hashimoto K,Kizaki J,Murakami N,Aoyagi K,Koufuji K,Akagi Y,Shirouzu K

更新日期：2013-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the relationship between exercise-provoked esophageal motility disorders and the prognosis for patients with chest pain. METHODS:The study involved 63 subjects with recurrent angina-like chest pain non-responsive to empirical therapy with proton pump inhibitor (PPI). In all, a coronary artery angiog...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Budzyński J

更新日期：2010-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The thrombophilia in adult life has major implications in the hepatic vessels. The resulting portal vein thrombosis has various outcomes and complications. Esophageal varices, portal gastropathy, ascites, severe hypersplenism and liver failure needing liver transplantation are known well. The newly formed collateral v...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Harmanci O,Bayraktar Y

更新日期：2007-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine the epidemiology of hepatitis B virus carrier status (HBVC) and sonographic fatty liver (SFL) in Taiwanese adults, and to evaluate their possible interaction in inducing liver damage (LD). >From an epidemiological viewpoint, we analyzed previous studies which indicated that fatty liver sensitizes host im...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Lin YC,Hsiao ST,Chen JD

更新日期：2007-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rare case of a 68-year-old male with metachronous pancreatic metastasis that was resected 2 years after salvage esophagectomy for local recurrence of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Two years and 8 mo ago, he had undergone definitive chemoradiotherapy for the lower thoracic ESCC and achieved a c...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Okamoto H,Hara Y,Chin M,Hagiwara M,Onodera Y,Horii S,Shirahata Y,Kamei T,Hashizume E,Ohuchi N

更新日期：2014-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate whether α-fetoprotein (AFP) and vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR)-1 correlate with early recurrence of hepatoma/hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS:From 2000 to 2005, 114 consecutive patients with HCC underwent primary curative hepatectomy. The mean age was 60.7 (8.7) years and...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Kamiyama T,Takahashi M,Nakanishi K,Yokoo H,Kamachi H,Kobayashi N,Ozaki M,Todo S

更新日期：2012-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate GATA5, SFRP2, and ITGA4 methylation in plasma DNA as noninvasive biomarkers for colorectal cancer (CRC) or adenomas. METHODS:There were 57 CRC patients, 30 adenomas patients, and 47 control patients enrolled in this study. Methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction was used to determine the prom...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Zhang X,Song YF,Lu HN,Wang DP,Zhang XS,Huang SL,Sun BL,Huang ZG

更新日期：2015-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Portal hypertension, liver fibrosis, and angiosarcoma of the liver (ASL) have been reported among workers exposed to vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) since the 1970s. In 2007, the International Agency for Research on Cancer established the association of VCM with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), though only on the basis of...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Fedeli U,Girardi P,Mastrangelo G

更新日期：2019-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To study the effect of probiotics on interleukin-8 secretion in intestinal epithelia when stimulated by proinflammatory cytokines. METHODS:Colonic adenocarcinoma HT29 cells were cultured and divided into four groups: control, TNF-alpha (group T in short), bifidobacterium (group B), lactobacillus (group L). B. Long...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Bai AP,Ouyang Q,Zhang W,Wang CH,Li SF

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe a method for the transjugular intrahepatic portal systemic shunt (TIPS) placement performed with the aid of contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) and three-dimensional reconstructed vascular images (3D RVIs), and to assess its safety and effectiveness. METHODS:Four hundred and ninety patients we...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Qin JP,Tang SH,Jiang MD,He QW,Chen HB,Yao X,Zeng WZ,Gu M

更新日期：2015-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To establish cell line and patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models for neuroendocrine carcinomas (NEC) which is highly desirable for gaining insight into tumor development as well as preclinical research including biomarker testing and drug response prediction. METHODS:Cell line establishment was conducted from dir...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Gock M,Mullins CS,Harnack C,Prall F,Ramer R,Göder A,Krämer OH,Klar E,Linnebacher M

更新日期：2018-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The patient with inflammatory bowel disease will be predisposed to numerous infections due their immune status. It is therefore important to understand the immune and serologic status at diagnosis and to put the patient into an adapted vaccination program. This program would be applied differently according to two pat...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Sánchez-Tembleque MD,Corella C,Pérez-Calle JL

更新日期：2013-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decade trans-arterial radioembolization has given promising results in the treatment of patients with intermediate or advanced stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), both in terms of disease control and tolerability profile. This technique consists of the selective intra-arterial administration of microsphe...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Sacco R,Mismas V,Marceglia S,Romano A,Giacomelli L,Bertini M,Federici G,Metrangolo S,Parisi G,Tumino E,Bresci G,Corti A,Tredici M,Piccinno M,Giorgi L,Bartolozzi C,Bargellini I

更新日期：2015-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To establish the prognosis and feasibility of en-bloc vascular resection of stage II pancreatic adenocarcinoma of the head and uncinate process. METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed 87 patients with stage II pancreatic adenocarcinoma, who were subjected to pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) and pylorus-preserving PD (PPP...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Chakravarty KD,Hsu JT,Liu KH,Yeh CN,Yeh TS,Hwang TL,Jan YY,Chen MF

更新日期：2010-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the effects of butyrate on interleukin (IL)-32alpha expression in epithelial cell lines. METHODS:The human intestinal epithelial cell lines HT-29, SW480, and T84 were used. Intracellular IL-32alpha was determined by Western blotting analyses. IL-32alpha mRNA expression was analyzed by real-time poly...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Kobori A,Bamba S,Imaeda H,Ban H,Tsujikawa T,Saito Y,Fujiyama Y,Andoh A

更新日期：2010-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The scientific framework concerning estrogen effects on different tissues has expanded enormously during the last decades, when estrogen receptor (ER) subtypes were identified. Estrogens are not only essential for the female reproductive system, but they also control fundamental functions in other tissues including th...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Alvaro D,Mancino MG,Onori P,Franchitto A,Alpini G,Francis H,Glaser S,Gaudio E

更新日期：2006-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To study and provide data on the evolution of medical procedures and outcomes of patients suffering from perforated midgut diverticulitis. METHODS:Three data sources were used: the Medline and Google search engines were searched for case reports on one or more patients treated for perforated midgut diverticulitis ...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Spasojevic M,Naesgaard JM,Ignjatovic D

更新日期：2012-09-14 00:00:00