Sequential Versus Combined Heart-Liver Transplantation in the USA.

abstract：:The purpose of the present study is to show anomalies of the plasma cAMP response of patients with hepatic disorders to a single injection of a low dose of glucagon (1 microgram/kg body wt). The response was markedly blunted in patients with liver cirrhosis and potentiated in patients with acute or chronic hepatitis. ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Maekubo H,Matsushima T,Okada F,Honma M,Ui M

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which Dai-kenchu-to (TJ-100), a kampo medicine, enhances gastrointestinal motility was investigated using isolated guinea pig ileum. TJ-100 induced contractions accompanied by autonomous contraction at a concentration of more than 3 x 10(-4) g/ml in a dose-related manner. The TJ-100-induced ileal con...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Satoh K,Hayakawa T,Kase Y,Ishige A,Sasaki H,Nishikawa S,Kurosawa S,Yakabi K,Nakamura T

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Regenerating islet-derived 3 (Reg3) is abnormally expressed in several human digestive system diseases, including chronic pancreatitis (CP) and pancreatic cancer (PC). AIM:The purpose of this study was to clarify the mechanism of the enhanced expression of Reg3 in inflammation-induced PC. METHODS:C57BL/6 m...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Yin G,Du J,Cao H,Liu X,Xu Q,Xiang M

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H. pylori may colonize columnar-lined esophagus, although an etiologic role in esophageal adenocarcinoma is unproven. H. pylori can adhere to intestinal metaplasia in the stomach. This study was designed to examine if H. pylori adheres to specialized intestinal metaplasia in columnar-lined esophagus. Esophageal biopsi...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Sharma VK,Demian SE,Taillon D,Vasudeva R,Howden CW

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several gastrointestinal hormones have been found in the intestinal lumen, but as yet their physiologic role is not yet clear. We have previously shown in anesthesized animals that electrical vagal stimulation provokes simultaneous intraluminal release of serotonin (5-HT) and substance P (SP). The aim of this study wa...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Ferrara A,Zinner MJ,Jaffe BM

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) has a high incidence in dogs and, as in humans, is difficult to diagnose. The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic significance of serum unconjugated bile acid concentrations in dogs with bacterial overgrowth. Fasting sera were obtained from 23 dogs: 10 with cu...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Melgarejo T,Williams DA,O'Connell NC,Setchell KD

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized controlled clinical study was conducted to determine (a) whether basic aluminum sucrose sulfate (sucralfate) is effective in preventing or reducing gastric ulcer recurrence, and (b) the clinical parameters contributing to ulcer recurrence after endoscopically proved healing has been effected. A total of 1...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Miyake T,Ariyoshi J,Suzaki T,Oishi M,Sakai M,Ueda S

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data on real-life patterns of biologic use for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are scarce. AIMS:We aimed to examine the patterns of biologic use and the factors associated with non-persistence and switching of biologics in Korean IBD patients. METHODS:Using National Health Insurance claims, we collected d...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Jung YS,Han M,Park S,Cheon JH

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This analysis evaluated the association between sleep disturbance and gastrointestinal symptoms in women with and without irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and examined the role of psychological distress in this relationship. Women with IBS (N = 82) reported considerably higher levels of sleep disturbance compared to co...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Jarrett M,Heitkemper M,Cain KC,Burr RL,Hertig V

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An altered adaptive response of the pancreas and small intestine to nutritional stress has an adverse impact upon nutritional status in elderly humans or senescent rats. We evaluated the effects of a pancreatic extract nutritional supplement on intestinal mucosa adaptation in LPS-treated aged rats. Endotoxemic rats we...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Farges MC,Raul F,Cezard JP,Davot P,Meunier MT,Cynober L,Vasson MP

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:No previous studies have compared cytology obtained under endoscopic transpapillary gallbladder drainage (ETGD) and EUS-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) for thick-walled gallbladders. AIM:The present study investigated the diagnostic yield of bile cytology under ETGD and EUS-FNA for gallbladder tumor...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Ogura T,Kurisu Y,Masuda D,Imoto A,Onda S,Kamiyama R,Hayashi M,Mohamed M,Uchiyama K,Higuchi K

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied effects of graded concentrations of intragastric calcium on acid secretion, residual gastric volume, and serum gastrin and calcium levels. Intragastric titration was performed with solutions of isotonic mannitol or mannitol plus 2.5, 6, 16, 39, and 97 mM CaCl(2) in 10 normal and eight duodenal ulcer subject...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Barclay G,Maxwell V,Grossman MI,Solomon TE

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:The purpose of this study was to examine the association between celiac disease (CD) and prior respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection or any viral bronchiolitis. METHODS:This was a retrospective case-control study. During 2006-2008 small intestinal biopsy data were collected from Sweden's 28 pa...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Tjernberg AR,Ludvigsson JF

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is characterized by diffuse fatty infiltration in the liver and ballooning degeneration and inflammation in hepatocytes. We aimed to study the protective effect of soy isoflavones on experimental NASH and their effects on plasma paraoxanese and arylesterase levels in rats. Twenty-ei...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Ustundag B,Bahcecioglu IH,Sahin K,Duzgun S,Koca S,Gulcu F,Ozercan IH

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfated and unsulfated bile acid composition was studied in serum and bile in 10 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis. Samples, collected before and 2 months after portacaval anastomosis, were analyzed using a gaschromatographic method. Mean total serum bile acid levels rose from 32.0 +/- 5.3 (SE) mumol/liter before to ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Capocaccia L,Attili AF,Cantafora A,Bracci F,Paciscopi L,Puoti C,Pièche U,Angelico M

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oral intake of food is important for the observed compensatory hyperplasia in the remnant small intestine after resection but the molecular events governing this response are not known. Peptides, of molecular weight 4500 and 1000 daltons, present in the the proximal intestine for 96 hr after resection and mitogeni...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Grey VL,Morin CL

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum and urine concentrations of pancreatic polypeptide (PP) were measured during experimental acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis and small-bowel infarction in dogs. The mean serum PP concentration in animals with pancreatitis increased markedly after 1 hr and remained elevated, while the mean serum PP concentration in t...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Pappas TN,Yovos JG,Ellison EC,O'Dorisio TM,Cataland S,Pace WG,Carey LC

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of various prokinetic drugs was assessed in animals with Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy. The agents tested were (1) bethanechol 2.5 mg subcutaneously at 0 min and 30 min postprandially (pp); (2) metoclopramide 20 mg intravenous bolus at 0 min pp; (3) a combination of 1 and 2; (4) oxytocin 5 mg intramuscularly ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Hocking MP,Brunson ME,Vogel SB

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To date, there are no studies reporting an association between vitamin D and Barrett's esophagus (BE), the precursor for esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). AIMS:Our aim was to study the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels and prevalence and incidence of dysplasia/EAC in BE. METHODS...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Thota PN,Kistangari G,Singh P,Cummings L,Hajifathalian K,Lopez R,Sanaka MR

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is an important process in a wide variety of different biological systems. In addition to caspases, recently, calpains, another family of proteases, have been found to be involved in apoptosis of many cell systems. This study is designed with the aims to evaluate the possible effect of Z-LLY-FMK (a calpain i...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Sheen-Chen SM,Ho HT,Eng HL

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has previously been shown that mucosal nitric oxide synthase (NOS) is involved in acid-induced duodenal mucosal alkaline secretion. The primary aim of the present study was to elucidate which isoform of NOS is responsible in rats. Immunohistochemistry showed that inducible NOS (iNOS) was constitutively expressed in...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Holm M,Powell T,Casselbrant A,Johansson B,Fändriks L

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoscopic biopsies are being increasingly utilized to investigate cytokine profiles in normal and diseased intestine. To evaluate the adequacy of mucosal biopsies as a source of cytokine-specific mRNA, we measured their content of interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) and interleukin-2 (IL-2) mRNA by reverse transcription-p...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Fukushima K,West G,Fiocchi C

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Avoidance of gluten is critical for individuals with celiac disease (CD), but there is also concern that "extreme vigilance" to a strict gluten-free diet may increase symptoms such as anxiety and fatigue, and therefore, lower quality of life (QOL). We examined the associations of QOL with energy lev...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Wolf RL,Lebwohl B,Lee AR,Zybert P,Reilly NR,Cadenhead J,Amengual C,Green PHR

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gallbladder dynamics, cholecystokinin (CCK), and pancreatic polypeptide (PP) release were studied in 14 patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP) (2 females, 12 males; age range 24-56 years) and 12 control subjects (4 females, 8 males, 21-50 years). On day 1, gallbladder contractility was investigated after ceruletide i...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Glasbrenner B,Malfertheiner P,Pieramico O,Klatt S,Riepl R,Friess H,Ditschuneit H

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rare case of secondary involvement of the gallbladder by metastatic renal cell carcinoma. A 71-year-old man was diagnosed as having a polypoid mass within the gallbladder when he underwent right nephrectomy for a renal cell carcinoma. A preoperative diagnosis of simultaneous carcinoma of the gallbladder wa...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Satoh H,Iyama A,Hidaka K,Nakashiro H,Harada S,Hisatsugu T

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A new device with metallic wires for scrape cytology was developed. AIMS:To compare the diagnostic performance of scrape cytology and conventional cytology during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for biliary strictures. METHODS:A total of 420 cases with biliary stricture underwent transpapill...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Nakahara K,Michikawa Y,Morita R,Suetani K,Morita N,Sato J,Tsuji K,Ikeda H,Matsunaga K,Watanabe T,Matsumoto N,Kobayashi S,Otsubo T,Itoh F

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) by transient elastography is a popular noninvasive test of fibrosis. Traditional LSM cutoffs dichotomize patients and do not clearly indicate the confidence of diagnosis. AIM:We derived and validated probability functions of fibrosis and cirrhosis based on LSM and determine...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Wong VW,Lampertico P,de Lédinghen V,Chang PE,Kim SU,Chen Y,Chan HL,Mangia G,Foucher J,Chow WC,Ahn SH,Hou J

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microvesicular steatosis is a potentially severe manifestation of valproic acid hepatotoxicity due to an acquired impairment of mitochondrial function. Tests currently used to investigate mitochondrial fonction are cumbersome and cannot be used routinely. We report on a noninvasive breath test using [13C]methionine fo...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Spahr L,Negro F,Rubbia-Brandt L,Marinescu O,Goodman K,Jordan M,Frossard JL,Hadengue A

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some benign and malignant diseases develop on the background of chronic gastritis or duodenitis. The present study was performed in order to determine the magnitude of these background changes with relations to symptomatology and life style in the general population. Examinations were performed in 501 volunteers (age ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Borch K,Jönsson KA,Petersson F,Redéen S,Mårdh S,Franzén LE

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) frequently have meal-related symptoms and can recognize specific trigger foods. Lactose intolerance is a well-established carbohydrate malabsorption syndrome that causes symptoms similar to IBS such as bloating, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. However, the prevalenc...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Kim SB,Calmet FH,Garrido J,Garcia-Buitrago MT,Moshiree B

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00