Trans fatty acids in diets act as a precipitating factor for gut inflammation?

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:We recently conducted a randomized placebo-controlled trial on the efficacy and safety of rikkunshito, a standardized Japanese herbal medicine, for the treatment of functional dyspepsia (FD). The present post-hoc study aimed to evaluate the differences in clinical characteristics between responders a...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Togawa K,Matsuzaki J,Kobayakawa M,Fukushima Y,Suzaki F,Kasugai K,Nishizawa T,Naito Y,Hayakawa T,Kamiya T,Andoh T,Yoshida H,Tokura Y,Nagata H,Mori M,Kato K,Hosoda H,Takebayashi T,Miura S,Uemura N,Joh T,Hibi T,S

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High circulating serum immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) levels have been proposed as a marker of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP). The aim of the present study was to review the data existing in the English literature on the usefulness of the IgG4 serum levels in the diagnosis and follow up of patients with AIP. A total of 159 p...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Morselli-Labate AM,Pezzilli R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:It is well known that endotoxemia, which is caused by a bacterial infection, can exacerbate acute pancreatitis, whereas pancreatitis-associated protein (PAP) has the ability to induce bacterial aggregation. Pancreatitis-associated protein is supposed to protect the tissue from infection during infla...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Wang X,Wang B,Wu J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) followed by esophagectomy is a well-known treatment modality for patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer (EC). This study developed an algorithm to predict pathological complete response (CR) in these patients using post-CRT endoscopic category with biops...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Cho CJ,Kang HJ,Park SJ,Kim GH,Park SH,Eo SH,Kim MJ,Kim YH,Park SR,Kim JH,Ahn JY,Kim DH,Choi KD,Song HJ,Jung HY,Park YS,Lee GH

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Products of the arachidonic acid metabolizing enzyme, 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX), stimulate the growth of several cancer types. Inhibitors of 5-LOX and 5-LOX-activating protein (FLAP) induce apoptosis in some cancer cells. Here, the authors investigated the effect of a FLAP inhibitor, MK-886, on the inhi...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Fan XM,Tu SP,Lam SK,Wang WP,Wu J,Wong WM,Yuen MF,Lin MC,Kung HF,Wong BC

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate the accuracy of two rapid whole blood tests (the BM-Test Helicobacter pylori and the QuikPac IV One Step H. pylori Whole Blood Test), and compare this to a conventional quantitative ELISA test (HEL-p TEST II). METHODS:Helicobacter pylori status in dyspeptic patients was assessed by culture, hist...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Chen TS,Chang FY,Lee SD

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The key issues that determine the decision between reusable versus disposable accessories are cost and functionality. In most health-care systems the availability and dissemination of endoscopic services relates directly to the resources (i.e. budget) of that system. Given the limitations of health-care budgets, acces...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Haber G

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceftriaxone-associated sludge has been a fascinating story. The occurrence is novel and unique. It has produced a model of gall-bladder sludge in humans. This phenomenon has taught us a great deal about biliary lipid and organic anion excretion by the liver, and the physical chemistry of calcium and calcium sensitive ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Kim YS,Kestell MF,Lee SP

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Epidemics pose a great challenge to health care of patients. However, the impact of unprecedented situation of COVID-19 outbreak on health care of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients in real-world setting has seldom been investigated. METHODS:We performed an observational study in a tertiary ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Zhang YF,Qiu Y,He JS,Tan JY,Li XZ,Zhu LR,Chen Y,Liu ZJ,Iacucci M,Chen BL,He Y,Ben-Horin S,Shen B,Zeng ZR,Ghosh S,Chen MH,Mao R

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:This study was designed to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of esomeprazole combined with flupentixol/melitracen for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) patients with emotional disorders. METHODS Two hundred eighty-nine GERD patients with emotional disorders were divided random...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Yu YY,Fang DC,Fan LL,Chang H,Wu ZL,Cao Y,Lan CH

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Intestinal endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide) is thought to contribute to liver injury in both alcoholic and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) is an important mediator of this process and is considered central to the inflammatory response in NASH. This study aim...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Kirsch R,Clarkson V,Verdonk RC,Marais AD,Shephard EG,Ryffel B,de la M Hall P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:This prospective pilot study investigated whether it is possible to predict the therapeutic response in both the early phase (1 week) and sustained phase (4 weeks) before starting proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy for functional dyspepsia (FD) or non-erosive reflux disease (NERD). METHODS:We admin...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Nagahara A,Miwa H,Asaoka D,Shimada Y,Sasaki H,Matsumoto K,Osada T,Hojo M,Watanabe S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overexpression of signaling proteins including epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), Akt, mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) occurs in cholangiocarcinoma cell lines. However, the prognostic value of these markers is unknown. No prior study correlated the expression of the...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Javle MM,Yu J,Khoury T,Chadha KS,Iyer RV,Foster J,Kuvshinoff BW,Gibbs JF,Geradts J,Black JD,Brattain MG

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is now commonly performed as a treatment for colorectal tumors. However, little is known about the relationship between submucosal fibrosis and the outcome of the colonic ESD procedure. The aims of this study were to investigate the relationship between the deg...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Lee SP,Kim JH,Sung IK,Lee SY,Park HS,Shim CS,Han HS

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary liver cancer, particularly hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a significant disease worldwide. It is among the top three causes of cancer death in the Asia Pacific region because of the high prevalence of its main etiological agents, chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections. I...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Yuen MF,Hou JL,Chutaputti A,Asia Pacific Working Party on Prevention of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid-sensing pathways, which trigger mucosal defense mechanisms in response to luminal acid, involve the rapid afferent-mediated "capsaicin pathway" and the sustained "prostaglandin (PG) pathway." Luminal acid quickly increases protective PG synthesis and release from epithelia, although the mechanism by which luminal...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Akiba Y,Kaunitz JD

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 54-year-old woman who was being treated with 10 million units (mu) of natural interferon (IFN)-alpha per day for chronic active hepatitis C at a local clinic, developed coma on the fourth day of treatment. On admission to Yamagata University Hospital, she was still in a state of semicoma with severe hyponatraemia (1...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Mabe K,Shinzawa H,Yamatani K,Takeda T,Ishibashi M,Yamada N,Misawa H,Wakabayashi H,Togashi H,Takahashi T

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypothyroidism is commonly thought to cause decreased gastric emptying but is mostly associated with autoimmune disease. In the present study the gastric emptying function of thyroid cancer patients with severe hypothyroidism of short duration was evaluated with a radionuclide solid meal gastric emptying stu...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Kao PF,Lin JD,Chiu CT,Hsu HT,See LC,Tzen KY

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Currently, endoscopic drainage (ED) and percutaneous drainage (PD) are both widely used effective interventions in the management of patients with symptomatic pancreatic fluid collections (PFCs). This study aimed to compare the clinical effectiveness and safety of ED to those of PD in the treatment o...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Wan J,Wu D,He W,Zhu Y,Zhu Y,Zeng H,Liu P,Xia L,Lu N

更新日期：2020-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Australia receives many migrants from countries with a high prevalence of hepatitis C infection. General practitioners, who are often the first health professionals consulted, need to be aware of risk factors and complications associated with hepatitis C in this group. METHODS:Four hundred and forty-seven g...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Dev A,Sievert W

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the efficacy of standard and low dosage of omeprazole in the healing of duodenal ulcer, 270 patients with endoscopically active duodenal ulcer were randomized to receive omeprazole, 10 mg or 20 mg every morning, or ranitidine, 150 mg twice daily, using the double-dummy technique. Forty-six potential pro...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Hui WM,Lam SK,Lau WY,Branicki FJ,Lok AS,Ng MM,Lai CL,Poon GP

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunogenicity and adverse reaction of an inactivated hepatitis A (HA) vaccine were investigated. Sixty healthy adult volunteers who lacked antibody to HA virus (anti-HAV) received three doses of vaccine containing 720 enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) units (EL.U) according to a 0, 1 and 6 month schedule....

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Horng YC,Chang MH,Lee CY,Safary A,Andre FE,Chen DS

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the leading cause of liver diseases including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. In China, it is a major national health problem that demands nationwide coordinated emphasis on prevention and treatment. To inform these initiatives, a nationwide survey...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Wei L,Li J,Yang X,Wang G,Feng B,Hou J,Duan Z,Jia J,Ren H,Niu J,Chen X,Wang FS,Shang J,Bo Q,Li R,Liu Y,Zhuang H

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric varices (GVs) are a major complication of portal hypertension in patients with liver cirrhosis. The mortality rate associated with the bleeding from GVs is not low. Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) was first introduced by Kanagawa et al. as a treatment for isolated GVs in 1994. It ha...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Kobayakawa M,Ohnishi S,Suzuki H

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the effect of hepatitis delta virus (HDV) superinfection on the long-term outcome of Japanese subjects with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, we examined the presence of antibodies to hepatitis delta antigen (anti-HD) in serial serum samples collected from 1127 subjects with chronic HBV infecti...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Tamura I,Kurimura O,Koda T,Ichimura H,Katayama S,Kurimura T,Inaba Y

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the pathophysiology underlying gastric mucosal lesions induced by lateral hypothalamic (LH) lesions, we investigated the changes in acid secretion, gastric mucosal blood flow, gastric mucus and mucosal integrity in the corpus during the 4 h period and 48 h after the production of bilateral electrolytic LH ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Saita H,Murakami M,Kita T

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Colonic mucosal defects might be a route for bacterial invasion into the portal system, with subsequent hematogenous spread to the liver. We retrospectively investigated the results of colonoscopy and the clinical characteristics of patients with pyogenic liver abscess of colonic origin. METHODS:A t...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Jeong SW,Jang JY,Lee TH,Kim HG,Hong SW,Park SH,Kim SG,Cheon YK,Kim YS,Cho YD,Kim JO,Kim BS,Lee EJ,Kim TH

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:We previously discovered that tumor suppressor candidate 3 (TUSC3) was overexpressed and predicted worse prognosis in colon cancer patients. However, the mechanisms of upregulation of TUSC3 in colon cancer remained unclear. METHODS:MiR-873-5p was predicted and identified as the regulator of TUSC3 vi...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Zhu Y,Zhang X,Qi M,Zhang Y,Ding F

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the replicative efficiency and pathogenicity of hepatitis B virus precore variant (A1896), anti-hepatitis B virus e antigen (HBe) titre was studied in naturally occurring wild-type virus infection, A1896 variant infection and dual infection. Higher titre of anti-HBe was found in patients with no virus replica...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Wen YM,Ma ZM,Tu G,Zhai WR,He LF,Yao X

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoscopic variceal ligation (EVL) related complication is rarely reported. A case is presented of a 74 year old man with oesophageal variceal bleeding who developed oesophageal perforation following EVL and balloon tamponade. An oesophageal wall defect was induced by EVL and tissue repair was hindered by decompensate...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Hou MC,Lin HC,Chang FY,Lee FY,Chen TS,Lee SD

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00