Submucosal fibrosis and basic-fibroblast growth factor-positive neutrophils correlate with colonic stenosis in cases of ulcerative colitis.

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) is a multifunctional cytokine which modifies tissue stromal matrix synthesis, cell proliferation and immune function. In the present study, we have used a mouse monoclonal antibody to the latent (intracytoplasmic) form of TGF-beta 1 to compare its expression in 144 cases ...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Slater SD,Williamson RC,Foster CS

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) results from an aberrant immune response to the indigenous intestinal flora in genetically susceptible hosts. Therefore, the study of candidate genes involved in host pathogen interactions is of key interest. METHODS:In this two-center, retrospective German and Hungarian coh...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Baumgart DC,Buning C,Geerdts L,Schmidt HH,Genschel J,Fiedler T,Gentz E,Molnar T,Nagy F,Lonovics J,Lochs H,Wiedenmann B,Nickel R,Witt H,Dignass A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Double-filtration plasmapheresis (DFPP) together with interferon (IFN) administration produces a substantial reduction in the viral load during the early stages of treatment. METHODS:Based on their responses to previous pegylated IFN and ribavirin (PEG-IFN/RBV) therapy, 20 patients were divided int...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Kim SR,Saito J,Imoto S,Komaki T,Nagata Y,Kim KI,Sasase N,Kimura N,Sasatani K,Konishi E,Hasegawa Y,Fujinami A,Ohta M,El-Shamy A,Tanaka Y,Sugano M,Sakashita M,Nakamura A,Tsuchida S,Makino T,Kawada T,Nakajima T,M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether and to what extent the pancreas is involved in acute viral hepatitis is still unclear. In order to address this issue we evaluated serum and urinary amylase and isoamylase levels in 92 patients with acute viral hepatitis of different etiology and in 60 healthy volunteers. Furthermore, pancreatic structure and ...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Taranto D,Carrato A,Romano M,Maio G,Izzo CM,Del Vecchio Blanco C

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretion of pancreatic polypeptide (PP) seems to be controlled by vagal cholinergic mechanisms, since both vagotomy and atropine significantly inhibit the PP response to food intake, sham feeding or insulin hypoglycaemia. In the present study, we examined the PP response to a meal after orthotopic autotransplanta...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Köhler H,Becker HD

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocyte infiltration in the pancreas is involved in the aggravation of acute pancreatitis from edematous phase into necrotic change, and mild disease into severe disease; however, the mechanism responsible for leukocyte accumulation is not fully understood. This study was designed to clarify the mechanism underlying...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Yamauchi J,Sunamura M,Shibuya K,Takeda K,Kobari M,Matsuno S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2 cases of pancreatic disease in patients with malabsorption following small bowel radiation injury are reported. It is suggested that the pancreatic disease present in these patients occurred as a result of previous radiotherapy. ...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Mitchell CJ,Simpson FG,Davison AM,Losowsky MS

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of CDCA and UDCA administration on human intestinal permeability to lactulose, as disclosed by intravenous CCK, has been investigated. For this purpose the fraction of lactulose excreted in the urine during 5 h after an oral load of the disaccharide in hypertonic solution was measured in 12 healthy subje...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Budillon G,Parrilli G,Capuano G,Mazzacca G,Menzies IS

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is the most common hepatobiliary malignancy complicating primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). Unfortunately, timely diagnosis of CCA in PSC patients remains challenging. AIM:To investigate the strategies among liver centers regarding pre-transplant screening for CCA in patients wit...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Trilianos P,Selaru F,Li Z,Gurakar A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of certain chemical additives on, and the molecular characteristics of, the intestinal proteases of the suckling rat have been investigated. The catheptic activity of the intestinal wall was thiol dependent, whereas the luminal protease was markedly inhibited by trypsin inhibitor. There was no significant ...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Jones RE

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal phase of enterohepatic circulation, such as site and state of bile acid absorption, along the length of the intestinal tract has been speculated but not directly quantitated. In order to gain insight into the actual state of intestinal absorption of bile acid, the bile acid composition of portal blood f...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Fujii T,Yanagisawa J,Nakayama F

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:We have used the Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) rat to study the effects of type-2 diabetes and troglitazone on the small intestinal mucosal mass, sugar transporters and the peroxisomal proliferator-activated receptor, PPAR-gamma. METHODS:Age-matched ZDF and lean control (ZLC) rats were fed a standard cho...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Corpe C,Sreenan S,Burant C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to define the effects of sex, age, smoking, alcohol, analgesic ingestion, and treatment method whereby healing was initially induced on the prognosis of patients with a chronic duodenal ulcer (DU). 122 patients were assessed 1 year after the endoscopic demonstration of a DU. Two outcome variab...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Piper DW,McIntosh JH,Hudson HM

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:While probiotic bacteria are successfully used in the treatment of ulcerative colitis, the effect of commercially available probiotic products is still controversial. Here, we study whether the number of living probiotic bacteria in yoghurts is altered by an interruption of the cold chain. METHODS:Thre...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Scharl M,Geisel S,Vavricka SR,Rogler G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate number and quality of publications in gastroenterology, hepatology and digestive endoscopy from Western Europe (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland), Japan and USA over a recent 5-year period. METHODS:We screened by computer for full live...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Sorrentino D,De Biase F,Trevisi A,Bartoli E

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical relevance of cispride's stimulating effects on lower oesophageal motility was studied in 19 patients with documented (endoscopy, biopsy) grade II or III oesophagitis. Patients were treated for 8 or 16 weeks (depending essentially on whether the result was cure or failure) with 10 mg of cisapride four time...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Lepoutre L,Van der Spek P,Vanderlinden I,Bollen J,Laukens P

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of proton pump inhibitors on symptomatic inflammatory esophagogastric polyps (IEPs) in a pediatric cohort and to determine the optimal duration of treatment. METHODS:The 11 patients with IEPs were managed with lansoprazole. Follow-up endoscopies were perf...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Choi KE,Kim MJ,Lee JH,Lee JS,Lee JH,Choe YH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the regulation of pancreatic polypeptide (PP) release by using pirenzepine (a specific M1 muscarinic receptor antagonist), 4-diphenylacetoxy-N-methylpiperidine methobromide (4-DAMP, a specific M3 muscarinic receptor antagonist), atropine (a nonspecific muscarinic receptor ant...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Tanikawa M,Hayakawa T,Kondo T,Naruse S,Shibata T,Kitagawa M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of feeding an alpha-amylase inhibitor (BAY e 4609, 700 mg/100 g food) for 20 or 90 days on the enzymes of the exocrine pancreas of the rat was investigated. The amylase inhibitor-fed rats gained significantly less weight despite a higher food intake than control rats on a standard diet. Fecal weight increas...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Fölsch UR,Grieb N,Caspary WF,Creutzfeldt W

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of intercurrent diarrhoea on relapse of ulcerative colitis was investigated. Diarrhoea resulting from travel abroad, gastroenteritis or antibiotic usage resulted in an approximately 50% relapse rate. With regard to colonoscopy and barium enema, only the latter was followed by relapse and this may reflect di...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Isgar B,Harman M,Whorwell PJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Putrescine, the product of the ornithine decarboxylase (ODC)-catalyzed reaction, stimulates macromolecular synthesis in a duodenal crypt cell line, IEC-6 cells, grown in culture. In addition, supplementation of medium with putrescine alone reverses the inhibition of proliferation produced by inhibition of ODC with dif...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Seidel ER,Ginty DD

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Grading gastric mucosal atrophy in antrum biopsy specimens remains a controversial subject because of limitations in interobserver agreement. We previously described a reliable, quantitative method for grading atrophy of the corpus mucosa with excellent reproducibility and good correlation with the Sydn...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： van Grieken NC,Meijer GA,Kale I,Bloemena E,Lindeman J,Offerhaus GJ,Meuwissen SG,Baak JP,Kuipers EJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fasting reduced the weight, protein, DNA, RNA and polyamine contents of the small intestine of rats, but its effects on the in vivo uptake of intraperitoneally injected 14C-spermidine through the basolateral membrane of the small intestine were small. The uptake of putrescine was nearly doubled by fasting for 48 h. Fa...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Bardócz S,Grant G,Brown DS,Ewen SW,Stewart JC,Pusztai A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biliopancreatic bypass (BPB), a bariatric surgical procedure, leads to a malnutrition-induced general visceral atrophy except for the pancreas. This work investigates the implication of cholecystokinin (CCK) in the exocrine pancreatic adaptive process using a plasma CCK assay and the CCK receptor antagonist CR 1409. N...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Evrard S,Hoeltzel A,Aprahamian M,Bernard C,Mutter D,Marescaux J,Damgé C

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider the multiple interacting factors which lead to the proliferation of human gastric enterochromaffin-like (ECL) cells, and control of this proliferation by somatostatin and its analogues. Somatostatin receptors occur in human fundic mucosa, and octreotide can be considered a useful therapeutic tool to contro...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Delle Fave G,Annibale B

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucine absorption across the mechanically obstructed rat intestine was studied by in vivo and in vitro techniques. It varied between the early (after 2 h) and late (after 18 h) phases of the obstruction. During the early phase there was a reduction in mucosal uptake and in net absorption of the amino acid. At 18 h th...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Hajjar JJ,Schwartz RG,Mirkin KR,Tomicic TK

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rats we studied the effects of lactoferrin on experimental acute pancreatitis caused by a single subcutaneous injection of 100 micrograms/kg body weight of caerulein. Lactoferrin isolated from human milk was given intraperitoneally to rats immediately after the injection of caerulein. The injection of 100 mg/kg bod...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Koike D,Makino I

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown a specific significant overexpression in the exocrine pancreatic tissue of two members of the regenerating gene multifamily: reg I and reg II in the non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse during active diabetogenesis. To strengthen the hypothesis that the overexpression of these genes may represent a ...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Baeza N,Sanchez D,Christa L,Guy-Crotte O,Vialettes B,Figarella C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous investigations have demonstrated that the cellular signaling induced by hypoxia-reoxygenation is a major pathway contributing to gastric mucosal injury induced by stress, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and Helicobacter pylori. The aim of the present study was to perform a gene expression analysis of t...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Katada K,Naito Y,Mizushima K,Takagi T,Handa O,Kokura S,Ichikawa H,Yoshida N,Matsui H,Yoshikawa T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection exacerbates ulcerative colitis (UC) refractory to immunosuppressive therapies (IMT). However, the underlying UC remained active in some UC patients, despite the fact that CMV-DNA in colonic mucosa became negative after antiviral therapy. Therefore, new therapeutic strategies f...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Yoshino T,Nakase H,Matsuura M,Matsumura K,Honzawa Y,Fukuchi T,Watanabe K,Murano M,Tsujikawa T,Fukunaga K,Matsumoto T,Chiba T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00