Acute hepatitis C virus infection in a nurse trainee following a needlestick injury.

abstract：AIM:To investigate the global gene expression of cancer related genes in hepatoma cell line HLE using Atlas Human Cancer Array membranes with 588 well-characterized human genes related with cancer and tumor biology. METHODS:Hybridization of cDNA blotting membrane was performed with (32)P-labeled cDNA probes synthesize...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Liu LX,Liu ZH,Jiang HC,Zhang WH,Qi SY,Hu J,Wang XQ,Wu M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the intestinal anti-inflammatory effect and mechanism of a probiotic Lactobacillus salivarius ssp. salivarius CECT5713 in the TNBS model of rat colitis. METHODS:Female Wistar rats (180-200 g) were used in this study. A group of rats were administered orally the probiotic L. salivarius ssp. salivariu...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Peran L,Camuesco D,Comalada M,Nieto A,Concha A,Diaz-Ropero MP,Olivares M,Xaus J,Zarzuelo A,Galvez J

更新日期：2005-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe our own experience with pyogenic liver abscesses over the past 10 years and investigate the risk factors associated with failure of initial percutaneous therapy. METHODS:A retrospective study of records of 63 PLA patients presenting between 1998 and 2008 to Australian tertiary referral centre, were rev...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Pang TC,Fung T,Samra J,Hugh TJ,Smith RC

更新日期：2011-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To study the inhibitory effects of a Shuangling Fuzheng anticancer preparation (SFAP) on the human gastric cancer cell line SGC-7901 in vitro as well as its immune-modulated effects in a cyclophosphamide-treated murine model. METHODS:MTT experiments and immunocytochemistry ABC experiments were performed for detect...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Chen HS,Chen J,Cui DL,Zheng YY,Xu AH,Chen G,Jia LC

更新日期：2007-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the association of human antigen R (HuR) and inhibitors of apoptosis proteins (IAP1, IAP2) and prognosis in pancreatic cancer. METHODS:Protein and mRNA expression levels of IAP1, IAP2 and HuR in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) were compared with normal pancreatic tissue. The correlations among...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Lukosiute-Urboniene A,Jasukaitiene A,Silkuniene G,Barauskas V,Gulbinas A,Dambrauskas Z

更新日期：2019-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To study the effects of tetrandrine on portal hypertensive gastric mucosal lesions. METHODS:Portal hypertensive models were induced in Wistar rats by 60% CCl4 3 mL/kg body weight through subcutaneous injection, once every 4 d for 56 d. The animals were randomly divided into portal hypertension, tetrandrine and pro...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Mu Y,Shen YZ,Chu YF

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the effectiveness of 4 d' anti-Helicobacter pylori therapy on the H pylori-infected Mongolian gerbils based on physiological and pathological changes. METHODS:We used 6-wk-old male gerbils orally inoculated with H pylori (ATCC43504, 2X10(8) CFU/mL). Seven weeks after H pylori inoculation, the animal...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Chang CC,Chen SH,Lien GS,Lee YJ,Lou HY,Hsieh CR,Fang CL,Pan S

更新日期：2005-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the prevalence, characteristics and clinical course of pancreatic cystic neoplasms (PCNs) in liver transplantation (LT) recipients. METHODS:We retrospectively studied consecutive patients who underwent LT between January 1998 to April 2016. Clinical and laboratory data were obtained from patient medic...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Liu K,Joshi V,van Camp L,Yang QW,Baars JE,Strasser SI,McCaughan GW,Majumdar A,Saxena P,Kaffes AJ

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the use of topical negative pressure (TNP) in the management of severe peritonitis. METHODS:This is a four-year prospective analysis from January 2005 to December 2008 of 20 patients requiring TNP following laparotomy for severe peritonitis. RESULTS:There were 11 males with an average age of (59.3 +/- 3...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Amin AI,Shaikh IA

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess quantitatively the relationship between fish intake and the incidence of gastrointestinal cancers in a meta-analysis of cohort studies. METHODS:We searched MEDLINE, Embase, Science Citation Index Expanded, and the bibliographies of retrieved articles. Prospective cohort studies were included if they repo...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Yu XF,Zou J,Dong J

更新日期：2014-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory granulomatous process that usually involves different sites in the intestinal tract. Genetic and environmental factors are thought to play a role in its etiology and pathogenesis. The disorder has a heterogeneous clinical expression and data from tertiary care settings have do...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Freeman HJ

更新日期：2009-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To study the effects of drug treatment on hyperplastic gastric polyps infected with Helicobacter pylori (H pylori). METHODS:Forty-eight patients with hyperplastic gastric polyps (3-10 mm in diameter) infected with H pylori were randomly assigned to a treatment group (n = 24) which received proton-pump inhibitor (o...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ji F,Wang ZW,Ning JW,Wang QY,Chen JY,Li YM

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) hepatitis and other diseases related to HCV, such as cryoglobulinemia, lymphoma and renal failure, impair health-related quality of life (HRQoL). In addition, HCV per se might directly influence HRQoL via colonization of microglia in the brain or, indirectly, via the effect of systemic inflamma...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Amodio P,Salari L,Montagnese S,Schiff S,Neri D,Bianco T,Minazzato L

更新日期：2012-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the prognostic significance of PECAM-1, ICAM-3 and HLA-DR antigens in patients with primary non-Hodgkin's gastric lymphoma. METHODS:We immunohistochemically studied PECAM-1, ICAM-3 and HLA-DR antigen expression in 36 B-cell MALT-type primary gastric lymphoma patients. Ten non-malignant and ten healt...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Darom A,Gomatos IP,Leandros E,Chatzigianni E,Panousopoulos D,Konstadoulakis MM,Androulakis G

更新日期：2006-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the evolution of transient elastography (TE) in patients with alcoholic liver disease according to alcohol cessation or continuation. METHODS:We retrospectively selected in our local database all patients who had two TE between June 2005 and November 2010 with chronic alcohol excessive consumption and...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Bardou-Jacquet E,Legros L,Soro D,Latournerie M,Guillygomarc'h A,Le Lan C,Brissot P,Guyader D,Moirand R

更新日期：2013-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development have been established, and include chronic hepatitis B and C, heavy alcohol consumption, and aflatoxins. In fact, 5%-30% of patients with HCC still lack a readily identifiable risk factor. It has been reported that the majority of ''cryptogenic'' HCC may ...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Wang SN,Lee KT,Ker CG

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor immunity proceeds through multiple processes, which consist of antigen presentation by antigen presenting cells (APCs) to educate effector cells and destruction by the effector cytotoxic cells. However, tumor immunity is frequently repressed at tumor sites. Malignantly transformed cells rarely survive the attack...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Mukaida N,Nakamoto Y

更新日期：2018-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Incidence and severity variations of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have been reported from Western populations between continents and regions of the same countries. However, no data were available from other countries. AIM:To investigate the regional differences in the IBD profiles of pediatric patients ...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： El Mouzan MI,AlEdreesi MH,Hasosah MY,Al-Hussaini AA,Al Sarkhy AA,Assiri AA

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of grasper type scissors (GTS) for endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) of gastric epithelial neoplasia. METHODS:The study was performed by 4 endoscopists in 4 institutions affiliated to The Catholic University of Korea. ESD was performed in 76 consecutive patients with gastri...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Chung WC,Kim BW,Lim CH,Kim TH,Park JM,Kim JS

更新日期：2013-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A 21-year-old woman with complaints of hematochezia was diagnosed as having Cowden's disease (CD), an autosomal dominant condition characterized by multiple hamartomas, since facial papules and gingival papillomas were identified. On endoscopy, multiple hyperplastic polyps were seen in the rectum and left-side colon. ...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Isomoto H,Furusu H,Ohnita K,Takehara Y,Wen CY,Kohno S

更新日期：2005-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the clinicopathological characteristics of duodenal well-differentiated endocrine tumors. METHODS:We examined clinicopathological characteristics in 11 consecutive patients with duodenal well-differentiated endocrine tumors treated by endoscopic therapy or surgery in our hospital from 1992 through 2007. ...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ishido K,Tanabe S,Higuchi K,Sasaki T,Katada C,Azuma M,Naruke A,Koizumi W,Mikami T

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Prague C and M Criteria have been developed for the objective endoscopic diagnosis of Barrett's esophagus (BE). BE arises between the squamocolumnar junction and the gastroesophageal junction at the proximal margin of the gastric folds. In this study, we reported that 43.0% of the subjects examined were diagnosed ...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Akiyama T,Sekino Y,Iida H,Koyama S,Gotoh E,Maeda S,Nakajima A,Inamori M

更新日期：2012-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Sorafenib, a potent multikinase inhibitor, lead to a significant improvement in progression free survival and overall survival in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Though sorafenib has proven its efficacy in advanced stage HCC, there are limited reports on the role of sorafenib allowing for curati...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Park JG,Park SY,Lee HW

更新日期：2015-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary malignancy of the liver. It is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with a very poor prognosis. In the United States, there has been only minimal improvement in the prognosis for HCC patients over the past 15 years. Details of the molecu...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ogunwobi OO,Harricharran T,Huaman J,Galuza A,Odumuwagun O,Tan Y,Ma GX,Nguyen MT

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatoblastoma is the most common primary hepatic tumor of children. However, only a very few cases have been reported in adults. Most studies support treatment with chemotherapy followed by surgical resection. We present the first reported case of adult hepatoblastoma in Taiwan. A 52-year-old female suffered from sud...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ke HY,Chen JH,Jen YM,Yu JC,Hsieh CB,Chen CJ,Liu YC,Chen TW,Chan DC

更新日期：2005-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A female patient with anemia and hypoalbuminemia was admitted to our hospital due to an over 20-year history of recurrent dizziness, fatigue and ankle edema. She was diagnosed as multiple chronic non-specific ulcer of the small intestine characterized by non-specific histology and persistent gastrointestinal bleeding....

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Chen Y,Ma WQ,Chen JM,Cai JT

更新日期：2010-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the serum concentration of antimitochondrial antibodies (AMAs) as a prognostic indicator of progressive primary biliary cirrhosis (pPBC). METHODS:Serum concentrations of AMA subtypes (anti-M2, anti-M4, and anti-M9), biochemical indices of liver function and Mayo risk factor (MRF) were determined in 30 ...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Flisiak R,Pelszynska M,Prokopowicz D,Rogalska M,Grygoruk U

更新日期：2005-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency caused by chronic pancreatitis results from various factors which regulate digestion and absorption of nutrients. Pancreatic function has been extensively studied over the last 40 years, even if some aspects of secretion and gastrointestinal adaptation are not completely understood. T...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Pezzilli R

更新日期：2009-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To study the effect of sulfated cholecystokinin-octapeptide (CCK-8) on systemic hypotension, gene and protein expression of TNF-alpha in the spleen of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced endotoxic shock (ES) rats, and further investigate the signal transduction mechanism of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK)....

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Meng AH,Ling YL,Zhang XP,Zhao XY,Zhang JL

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite substantial efforts at early diagnosis, accurate staging and advanced treatments, esophageal cancer (EC) continues to be an ominous disease worldwide. Risk factors for esophageal carcinomas include obesity, gastroesophageal reflux disease, hard-alcohol use and tobacco smoking. Five-year survival rates have imp...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： DaVee T,Ajani JA,Lee JH

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00