Acute valproate-associated microvesicular steatosis: could the [13C]methionine breath test be useful to assess liver mitochondrial function?

abstract：:This study was undertaken to compare the effects of subtotal Billroth II gastrectomy on gastric emptying and gastrointestinal motility with previously published results in intact dogs and in dogs with subtotal Roux-Y gastrectomy. Extraluminal strain gauge transducers were used to study gastrointestinal motility after ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Ehrlein HJ,Wulschke S,Thoma G,Schumpelick V

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The gut is an important target organ of injury during critically ill conditions. Although Gram staining is a common and quick method for identifying bacteria, its clinical application has not been fully evaluated in critically ill conditions. AIMS:This study's aims were to identify patterns of Gram-stained ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Shimizu K,Ogura H,Tomono K,Tasaki O,Asahara T,Nomoto K,Morotomi M,Matsushima A,Nakahori Y,Yamano S,Osuka A,Kuwagata Y,Sugimoto H

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basal gastric acid output was analyzed prospectively in 110 patients with endoscopically documented duodenal ulcer disease to determine the frequency of gastric acid hypersecretion in patients with bleeding versus nonbleeding ulcers. Thirty-eight patients with stigmata of an actively or recently bleeding duodenal ulce...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Collen MJ,Kalloo AN,Sheridan MJ

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin analog SMS 201-995 causes a dose-related suppression of the release and/or action of several gastrointestinal hormones and impairs several anterior pituitary functions. Some patients with illness involving abnormal hormonal activity have responded to treatment with SMS 201-995, including resolution of sev...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Greenberg RN

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has many characteristics of autoimmune diseases. Sensorineural hearing loss has been reported in many autoimmune diseases. Little is known about hearing loss in patients with IBD. METHODS:A prospective blinded comparative study was conducted over a 3-year period. IB...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Wengrower D,Koslowsky B,Peleg U,Mazuz B,Cohen L,Ben-David A,Gross M,Goldin E,Shaul C

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevalence estimates for irritable bowel syndrome from surveys in Western countries are 4.4% to 22%, generally higher in women than men, and only a minority seek health care. There are few studies of bowel patterns in Asian countries. We conducted a survey of a nonpatient population in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to de...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Zuckerman MJ,Nguyen G,Ho H,Nguyen L,Gregory GG

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with congenital asucrasia was investigated using in vivo differential urinary disaccharide excretion. Impaired hydrolysis of sucrose and isomaltose, but normal lactase activity, were demonstrated and confirmed by in vitro estimation. The technique of differential disaccharide excretion can now be used to ass...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Maxton DG,Catt SD,Menzies IS

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastroenterologists are in a unique position to assist women with chronic gastrointestinal disorders in order to optimize their health prior to pregnancy. Women, whether with chronic conditions or not, and their infants are more likely to be healthy when pregnancies are planned. Achieving a planned pregnancy at the id...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Sridhar A,Cwiak CA,Kaunitz AM,Allen RH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neutralizing capacity of two antacids (Alucol = A, Syntrogel = S), differing both in their composition and theoretical neutralizing capacity, was evaluated in vitro and in vivo. In vitro at pH 3.5, 1 ml of A or S neutralizes 3.9 and 1.6 meq of acid, respectively, in an aqueous solution. When tested in vivo in the ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Berchtold P,Reinhart WH,Niederhäuser U,Koller U,Halter F

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emodin inhibited expression of both transforming growth factor beta1 (TGFbeta1)- and phorbol ester (PMA)-induced tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) in an immortalized rat hepatic stellate cell line, HSC-T6, by Western blot and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. Reporter gene assays showed ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Gui M,Zhang YF,Xiao ZY,Sun P,Dai JF,Wang SF,Rui YC,Zhang JP

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of obtaining oral desensitization in patients with food allergy is still a matter of debate. We decided to evaluate the safety and efficacy of standardized protocols for oral desensitization with the most common food allergens. Forty-two children (ages up to 16 years) diagnosed as affected by food alle...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Patriarca G,Nucera E,Pollastrini E,Roncallo C,De Pasquale T,Lombardo C,Pedone C,Gasbarrini G,Buonomo A,Schiavino D

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although viral hepatitis infection is known to be associated with aplastic anemia, a causal link between viral hepatitis and aplastic anemia has not been convincingly demonstrated. A case of hepatitis B-associated severe aplastic anemia is described which only partially responded to conventional immunosuppressive trea...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Bozkaya H,Yurdaydin C,Törüner M,Arat M,Bozdayi AM,Erekul S,Cinar K,Koç H,Uzunalimoğlu O

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new technique for ambulatory manometry of the small intestine with digital storage of signals is presented. Postprandial motility after a 1700-kJ meal and nighttime fasting motility were recorded in 19 healthy young adults. A comprehensive statistical approach was worked out to illuminate the statistical properties ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Husebye E,Skar V,Aalen OO,Osnes M

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translocation of bacteria and endotoxtin has long been documented in obstructive jaundice, and altered intestinal barrier function is considered to be one of the important mechanisms for this phenomenon. The regulation of gastrointestinal mucosal response to injury is thus of important clinical as well as biological r...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Sheen-Chen SM,Chen HS,Ho HT,Sheen CC,Chen WJ,Eng HL

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatocellular carcinoma is a major type of liver cancer with poor prognosis. AIM:The aim of the study was to determine the prognostic significance of plasma interleukin-35 level in hepatocellular carcinoma. METHODS:A total of 153 hepatocellular carcinoma patients and 153 healthy controls were enrolled. Bl...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Qiu X,Wang X,Song Y,Chen L

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is characterized by elevated serum IgA concentrations, the presence of circulating immune complexes containing IgA, and IgA deposits along sinusoids in the liver. When combined with the presupposed IgA-clearance function of the liver, a causal association between IgA abnormalities and the...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： van de Wiel A,Valentijn RM,Schuurman HJ,Daha MR,Hené RJ,Kater L

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intravenous injection of diphenylthiocarbazone (dithizone), a zinc chelator, induces selective killing and rapid regeneration of Paneth cells, which have a large amount of zinc in their cytoplasmic granules. We examined the expression pattern of transforming growth factor (TGF) -alpha and TGF-beta1 in this regenera...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Seno H,Sawada M,Fukuzawa H,Morita Y,Takaishi S,Hiai H,Chiba T

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Activation of the transcription factor NF-κB and expression of pro-inflammatory mediators have been considered as major events of acute pancreatitis (AP). Karyopherin alpha 2 (KPNA2), a member of the importin α family, reportedly modulates p65 subcellular localization. AIM:This study aimed to investigate th...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Cai Y,Shen Y,Gao L,Chen M,Xiao M,Huang Z,Zhang D

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health-care-seeking behaviors related to bowel complaints may vary between ethnic groups. A survey of a nonpatient population in El Paso, Texas, was conducted in order to examine differences in health care behavior related to bowel dysfunction, and in the perception of health and bowel function, in Hispanics and non-H...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Zuckerman MJ,Guerra LG,Drossman DA,Foland JA,Gregory GG

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HAb18G/CD147 expression has been associated with many tumor invasion molecules, which play important roles in recurrence and poor differentiation of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). However, the clinical implications of HAb18G/CD147 in ESCC are still unclear. AIMS:In this study, we clarified the c...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Zhu S,Li Y,Mi L,Zhang Y,Zhang L,Gong L,Han X,Yao L,Lan M,Chen Z,Zhang W

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Bacterial translocation is a frequent complication in portal hypertension related to cirrhosis in the human clinical area. The aim of this study was to verify the existence of intestinal bacterial translocation to mesenteric lymph nodes in male Wistar rats with triple partial portal vein ligation during short- ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Llamas MA,Aller MA,Marquina D,Nava MP,Arias J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin, VacA, stimulates apoptosis via a mitochondria-dependent pathway. VacA induces apoptosis via activation of the pro-apoptotic B-cell lymphoma (Bcl)-2 family proteins, Bcl-2-associated X protein (Bax) and Bcl-2 homologous antagonist/killer (Bak), while the implication ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Matsumoto A,Isomoto H,Nakayama M,Hisatsune J,Nishi Y,Nakashima Y,Matsushima K,Kurazono H,Nakao K,Hirayama T,Kohno S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:No study has evaluated current scoring systems for their accuracy in predicting short and long-term outcome of alcoholic hepatitis in a US population. METHODS:We reviewed electronic records for patients with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) admitted to Parkland Memorial Hospital between January 2002 and August...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Cuthbert JA,Arslanlar S,Yepuri J,Montrose M,Ahn CW,Shah JP

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnosis of pediatric inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) remains challenging. We aimed at the value of immunohistochemical assessment of CD30+ lymphocytes in the intestinal mucosa in differential diagnosis between pediatric Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) and its utility as a predictor of fu...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Fabian O,Hradsky O,Drskova T,Mikus F,Zamecnik J,Bronsky J

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients are presented having lymphomatous involvement of the central nervous system in whom dysphagia was the predominant symptom. All indicated studies failed to reveal evidence of direct esophageal involvement, and the dysphagia improved during treatment of the neural component. Esophageal manometric studies re...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Benjamin SB,Eisold J,Gerhardt DC,Castell DO

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that elevated serum lipoprotein cholesterol levels may be a determinant of biliary cholesterol saturation and cholesterol gallstone disease. The aim of this study was to correlate serum lipoprotein cholesterol and apolipoprotein levels with biliary cholesterol saturation in patients with gallston...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Marks JW,Cleary PA,Albers JJ

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evaluation of a group of polyamine analogs as agents to ameliorate diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome is described. Each compound was assessed when administered subcutaneously in a psychological stress-induced model of irritable bowel syndrome in rodents for its ability to reduce stool output in a dose-...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Bergeron RJ,Wiegand J,Fannin TL

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of insulin on the myoelectric activity of the small intestine was determined in conscious pigs. Animals were implanted with electrodes along the small intestine, a strain gage on the stomach and catheters in both saphenous arteries. Feeding modified the migrating myoelectric complex (MMC), a cyclic pattern ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Rayner V,Weekes TE,Bruce JB

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Achalasia is an esophageal motility disorder of unknown etiology. Several studies suggest possible herpes or measles virus etiology, but results are inconclusive. The aim of this study was to test whether herpesvirus (HV), measles (MV), or human papilloma virus (HPV) sequences could be detected in myotomy specimens fr...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Birgisson S,Galinski MS,Goldblum JR,Rice TW,Richter JE

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium butyrate is a well-recognized differentiating agent inducing alkaline phosphatase activity, one of the epithelial differentiation markers. When IEC6 cells, a nontransformed, small intestinal epithelial cell line, were cultured with butyrate, this substrate induced alkaline phosphate activity in a time- and dose...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Fukushima K,Sasaki I,Hasegawa H,Takahashi K,Naito H,Funayama Y,Matsuno S

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00