Seroepidemiological study on hepatitis delta virus infection in the Irabu Islands, Okinawa, Japan.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening improves survival and requires appropriate recommendation by general practitioners (GPs). Screening practises may be influenced by barriers related to ethnicity and training. METHODS:A mail survey assessed GPs' practises and the barriers towards CRC screening. The a...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Koo JH,You MY,Liu K,Athureliya MD,Tang CW,Redmond DM,Connor SJ,Leong RW

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbial agents are a possible cause of ulcerative colitis. We have previously reported evidence of bacteria invading the colonic mucosa of patients with ulcerative colitis. We have isolated bacteria from inflamed colonic mucosa, examined the localization of the species in the mucosa, and assayed for serum ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Ohkusa T,Sato N,Ogihara T,Morita K,Ogawa M,Okayasu I

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 51 patients with achalasia of the oesophagus treated by pneumatic dilatation between 1980 and 1988 is reported. Treatment was assessed as effective (no or minimal dysphagia) in 78% of patients, followed for a mean of 30 months. Thirty-four patients required only one dilatation and only two patients had mor...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Prewett EJ,Desmond PV,Breen KJ

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the immune response of 20 haemodialysis (HD) patients vaccinated with hepatitis A (HA) vaccine and eight patients vaccinated with hepatitis B (HB) vaccine. Twenty patients and 22 healthy adults were immunized three times (months 0, 1 and 6) intramuscularly with a 0.5 microgram dose. All members of...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Kuramoto I,Fujiyama S,Matsushita K,Sato T

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Prostaglandin analogs have the pharmacologic effect of speeding up small intestinal transit (SIT). It remains unknown whether some gut peptides also mediate this enhancement. We studied the effect of misoprostol on rat SIT and looked at the role of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) release dur...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Chang FY,Doong ML,Chen TS,Lee SD,Wang PS

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:By analyzing a tumor growth of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) detected in sustained responders (SR) to interferon (IFN) therapy for chronic hepatitis C, we sought to determine the duration of follow up in SR that would be sufficient to detect HCC. In addition, we sought to elucidate the presence of HCC, whic...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Toyoda H,Kumada T,Honda T,Hayashi K,Katano Y,Nakano I,Hayakawa T,Fukuda Y

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accumulation of endogenous opioids and overproduction of nitric oxide has been reported in cholestatic mice. It is well known that endogenous opioids and nitric oxide alter the susceptibility of experimental animals to different models of seizure. METHODS:The alterations in clonic seizure thresholds, induce...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Homayoun H,Sayyah M,Dehpour AR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Few studies have evaluated sustained virological response (SVR) rates by direct-acting agents (DAAs) and liver stiffness measurement (LSM) changing post-SVR in limited-resource settings. We aimed to describe the effectiveness of DAAs for hepatitis C virus treatment and to assess the changing of LSM p...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Fernandes FF,Piedade J,Guimaraes L,Nunes EP,Chaves U,Goldenzon RV,Cardoso SW,Duarte J,Grinsztejn B,Veloso VG,Pereira G,Perazzo H

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) in East has risen over the past decade to become a global disease. The increasing number of studies on the incidence and course of IBD in East has enabled us to explore East versus West differences in the epidemiology of IBD which could enhance our understanding of th...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Mak WY,Zhao M,Ng SC,Burisch J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintaining high levels of intracellular cyclic AMP (cAMP) is known to inhibit the growth of various proliferating cells including hepatocytes. We show here that transient (30 min) elevations of cAMP induced by addition of 8-bromo-cAMP (1 mmol/L) to rat hepatocytes in primary culture at three time points (12 h, 16 h a...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Kikukawa M,Okamoto Y,Nakano H

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of interleukin-8 (CINC: cytokine-induced neutrophil chemo-attractant) from different cell populations in the rat liver was studied and cells related to the initiation of CINC production in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-injected endotoxaemic rats were characterized. Sinusoidal endothelial cells (16.4 +/- 10.6...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Ohkubo K,Masumoto T,Horiike N,Onji M

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bile duct damage and hepatic steatosis are two characteristic histological findings in hepatitis C virus infection; and high prevalence of hepatitis C antibody is noted in patients with cholangiocarcinoma. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between biliary diseases and hepatitis...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Chang TS,Lo SK,Shyr HY,Fang JT,Lee WC,Tai DI,Sheen IS,Lin DY,Chu CM,Liaw YF

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Controversies remain over the need for antiulcer treatment following 1-week eradication triple therapy for Helicobacter pylori-positive peptic ulcers. The usefulness of combination therapy for gastric ulcers in Japanese patients, which consists of H. pylori eradication followed by gastroprotective th...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Terano A,Arakawa T,Sugiyama T,Yoshikawa T,Haruma K,Asaka M,Shimosegawa T,Sakaki N,Ishii H,Sakamoto C,Takahashi S,Kinoshita Y,Fujioka T,Kobayashi K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gilbert's syndrome, an hereditary, chronic, mild, unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia resulting from impaired hepatic bilirubin clearance and otherwise normal liver function, is arguably the most common syndrome known in humans. Recent molecular genetic studies have determined that the clinical phenotype can be described...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Burchell B,Hume R

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 15-month period, 399 patients with dyspepsia were investigated for the presence of Campylobacter pylori infection. Half of the patients (50.6%) had Campylobacter organisms in the antrum of the stomach. C. pylori was found in 96.1% of patients with histological changes of chronic active gastritis in the antrum. ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Goh KL,Peh SC,Wong NW,Parasakthi N,Puthucheary SD

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:To evaluate and compare laparoscopic splenectomy and partial splenic embolization as supportive intervention for cirrhotic patients with hypersplenism to overcome peripheral cytopenia before the initiation of and during interferon therapy or anticancer therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma. METHODS:...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Tomikawa M,Akahoshi T,Sugimachi K,Ikeda Y,Yoshida K,Tanabe Y,Kawanaka H,Takenaka K,Hashizume M,Maehara Y

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Renal abnormalities can occur at any time point during the course of Wilson disease (WD). We aimed to fill a literature gap in this respect by studying urinary abnormalities in children and adolescents with WD. METHODS:This study included 60 children with WD presenting to the Pediatric Hepatology Un...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Helmy H,Fahmy M,Abdel Aziz H,Ghobrial C,Abdel Hameed N,El-Karaksy H

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucus and bicarbonate secretions have been widely implicated as an important pre-epithelial protective barrier against autodigestion of the gastric mucosa by acid and pepsin. Evidence from several independent studies shows there is a continuous layer of resilient viscoelastic mucus gel adherent to the surface of the g...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Copeman M,Matuz J,Leonard AJ,Pearson JP,Dettmar PW,Allen A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric cancer usually shows poor sensitivity to chemotherapy, and the presence of lymph node metastases is associated with extremely poor prognosis, especially when the number of such nodes is more than 10. We report here a case of advanced gastric cancer with histopathologically confirmed metastases in 15 regional l...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Shigemitsu K,Naomoto Y,Matsuno T,Gochi A,Isozaki H,Tanaka N

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Endoscopic transmural drainage has been recognized as the first-line treatment for pancreatic fluid collection (PFC). Currently, three different types of stents have been extensively applied, including double pigtail plastic stent (PS), fully covered self-expanding metal stent (FCSEMS), and novel lum...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Wang Z,Zhao S,Meng Q,Wang S,Chen Y,Wang F,Li Q,Yao J,Du Y,Jin Z,Bai Y,Li Z,Wang D

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:First-degree relatives of colorectal cancer patients are at increased risk for developing colorectal neoplasms. In order to assess the potentiality of colonoscopy screening in this high-risk population, 213 asymptomatic family members (age range 30-69 years, mean 42.8 years) of those patients with colorectal cancer re...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Wu CS,Tung SY,Chen PC,Kuo YC

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:The present study aims to explore if and when acid (pH) refluxes can predict refluxes detected by multichannel intraluminal impedance (MII) studies. This correlation may indicate whether pH probe-only and MII-pH studies are interchangeable. METHODS:Prospective observational cross sectional study of ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Misra S

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been reported to be detectable in about 10% of gastric carcinomas. We performed a comparative study of endosonographic findings of EBV-positive and -negative early gastric carcinomas. Epstein-Barr virus was detected in 11.8% (four of 34) of endosonographically observed early gastric ca...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Nishikawa J,Yanai H,Mizugaki Y,Takada K,Tada M,Okita K

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Multi-detector-row computed tomography (MDCT) has been reported to be a potentially useful modality for detection of the bleeding origin in patients with acute upper massive gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of MDCT as a routine method for detect...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Miyaoka Y,Amano Y,Ueno S,Izumi D,Mikami H,Yazaki T,Okimoto E,Sonoyama T,Ito S,Fujishiro H,Kohge N,Imaoka T

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:All gut movements are claimed to be activated essentially by the concentric contraction of the circular muscle, moving the chyme aborally. The role of the longitudinal smooth muscle of the small intestine in gut motility is poorly understood; this point was investigated in the current study. METHODS:The abd...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Shafik A,Shafik AA,Ahmed I

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Inflammatory bowel disease results from a dysregulated immune response to intestinal microbial flora in individuals with genetic predisposition(s). This study aimed to determine the effects of compound polysaccharides (CP) containing yam polysaccharide and inulin on the rat model of colitis induced b...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Cai Y,Liu W,Lin Y,Zhang S,Zou B,Xiao D,Lin L,Zhong Y,Zheng H,Liao Q,Xie Z

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined Na+/H+ ion exchange of caecal and colonic mucus. Two distinct Na+/H+ ion exchange populations of caecal mucus were identified, one group being a cation exchanger and the other an anion exchanger, suggesting that caecal mucus has ampholyte properties responsive to changing physical and chemical prop...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Duncan CE,Tasman-Jones C

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data on anorectal physiology in patients with disordered thyroid metabolism are lacking. This prospective study was performed to evaluate anorectal physiology in patients with either hyperthyroidism and diarrhoea, or hypothyroidism and constipation in order to assess slow transit in hypothyroid patients. ME...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Deen KI,Seneviratne SL,de Silva HJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Estimates suggest that in Asia, more than 31 million individuals have hepatitis C virus infection. The present analysis was conducted to assess the efficacy and safety of elbasvir/grazoprevir in Asian participants enrolled in the elbasvir/grazoprevir phase 2/3 clinical trials. METHODS:This is an int...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Wei L,Kumada H,Perumalswami PV,Tanwandee T,Cheng W,Heo J,Cheng PN,Hwang P,Mu SM,Zhao XM,Asante-Appiah E,Caro L,Hanna GJ,Robertson MN,Haber BA,Talwani R

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:There have been few studies in Japan of the utility of quality of life (QOL) questionnaires as an evaluation of chemotherapy for gastrointestinal (GI) cancer. The present study investigated whether QOL can be an indicator of the clinical benefit of chemotherapy, by analyzing the changes in the QOL sc...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Kato J,Nagahara A,Iijima K,Yoshimura M,Osada T,Yoshizawa T,Watanabe S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00