Production of a polar metabolite of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 in a rat liver perfusion system.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:To explore the CT signs which permit estimation of clinically severe portal hypertension (PH) [≥ 12 of hepatic vein pressure gradient (HVPG)]. METHODS:One-hundred and seven consecutive patients who underwent HVPG measurement in the PH group and 52 controls were included. The diameters of main portal...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Lee JY,Kim TY,Jeong WK,Kim Y,Kim J,Kim KW,Kim YH,Sohn JH

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerous experiments have shown that alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) are present in cells of various cancer and can play role in carcinogenesis. In previous investigations we have found elevated levels of alcohol dehydrogenase class III activity in pancreatic cancer cells. It ca...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Jelski W,Zalewski B,Szmitkowski M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of Sulglycotide were evaluated in a pilot study of active H. pylori+ atrophic gastritis. Ten informed patients (mean age 51 +/- 13 years) entered a double-blind study. Five received Sulglycotide 400 mg three times a day for one year, the other 5, placebo. At 0, 30, 90, 270, and 360 days of treatment, patie...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Bazuro GE,Dezi A,Pallotta L,Masci P,Teodori L,Trinca ML,Koch M,Capurso L

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Periampullary diverticulum (PAD) is most often asymptomatically found in elderly population. ERCP in the presence of PAD is technically challenging since the location and orientation of the ampulla could be altered. Various studies have reported differing results on the technical success and safety outcome...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Jayaraj M,Mohan BP,Dhindsa BS,Mashiana HS,Radhakrishnan G,Dhir V,Trindade AJ,Adler DG

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canine and human exocrine pancreatic secretion into the duodenum during fasting is cyclical and related to intestinal motility. To characterize the composition of pure pancreatic juice during the cyclically recurring sequence of propagated motor events (interdigestive motor complex) and to establish whether pancreatic...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Keane FB,Dozois RR,Go VL,Dimagno EP

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main pancreatic duct epithelium acts as a barrier to the diffusion of molecules from the duct lumen into pancreatic acinar and interstitial tissue. We studied sequential ultrastructural characteristics of the loss of epithelial barrier function in the cat using lanthanum, an electron-opaque tracer, following perfu...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Arendt T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of advanced liver disease and its complications may be on the rise within the Medicare population. The study aim was trend assessment for prevalence, mortality and resource utilization of patients with advanced liver disease. METHODS:A retrospective, cross-sectional design was used to analyze...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Otgonsuren M,Henry L,Hunt S,Venkatesan C,Mishra A,Younossi ZM

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Probiotic bacteria exhibit a variety of properties, which are unique to a particular strain. Lactobacillus acidophilus-SDC 2012, 2013 are new strains isolated from Korean infants' feces. The potential utility of Lactobacillus acidophilus-SDC 2012, 2013 in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) was studied. Forty IBS patients ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Sinn DH,Song JH,Kim HJ,Lee JH,Son HJ,Chang DK,Kim YH,Kim JJ,Rhee JC,Rhee PL

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to investigate the role of nitric oxide on the oxidative damage in isolated rabbit gastric cells exposed to hypoxia-reoxygenation. Nitric oxide synthesis modulators such as L-arginine and NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester, a nitric oxide donor, sodium nitroprusside, and superoxide dismutase were...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Kim H,Kim KH

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Intestinal ischemia reperfusion (IR) causes tissue injury in two ways, starting a pro-inflammatory cascade and oxidative stress. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible protective effects of caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE), which has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, against intestinal...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Yildiz Y,Serter M,Ek RO,Ergin K,Cecen S,Demir EM,Yenisey C

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with multiple large hyperplastic (metaplastic) polyps of the colon is reported. Hundreds of polyps, some over 3 cm in size, were distributed uniformly throughout the large bowel. There was no evidence of polyps in the stomach or small intestine. The polyps, except for their large size, had the histologic fea...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Sumner HW,Wasserman NF,McClain CJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosis of severe fibrosis (stages III and IV) in hepatitis C has clinical implications. Our objective was to distinguish independent predictors of severe fibrosis and use them to identify patients with severe fibrosis without a liver biopsy. One hundred ninety-nine hepatitis C patients were included in the initial ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Metwally MA,Zein CO,Zein NN

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibiotic prophylaxis can reduce the incidence of the first episode and recurrent episodes of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) in high-risk cirrhotic patients. However, recent data suggest that SBP prophylaxis may be underused. It is unclear how many cases of cirrhosis that develop SBP might actually...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Ngamruengphong S,Nugent K,Rakvit A,Parupudi S

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) arises from a number of cirrhosis-related and non-cirrhosis-related exposures and is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Achieving a durable cure currently relies on either resection or transplantation, but since most patients will be diagnosed with inoperable d...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Saffo S,Taddei TH

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of lymphocytic gastritis, a specific form of chronic gastritis characterized by infiltration of gastric superficial epithelium with T lymphocytes, has been established in nonulcer dyspepsia. Among a population sample of 586 patients at risk for gastric carcinoma, 0.83% of patients with nonulcer dyspepsi...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Jaskiewicz K,Price SK,Zak J,Louwrens HD

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of fatal, progressive hepatotoxicity in a patient treated with lamotrigine. After presenting with a rash and fever, she developed elevated liver function tests and clinical sequelae of hepatic failure. The subacute course of her progressive liver damage is documented in serial liver biopsies. While h...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Overstreet K,Costanza C,Behling C,Hassanin T,Masliah E

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left-sided portal hypertension is a rare clinical syndrome which may lead to bleeding from isolated gastric varices. Pancreatic disease is the most common etiology. Left-sided portal hypertension should be considered in the presence of gastrointestinal bleeding with normal liver function and unexplained splenomegaly. ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Köklü S,Coban S,Yüksel O,Arhan M

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric emptying of a solid meal and of 10 indigestible radiopaque solids was measured with scintigraphic and radiological techniques in 50 healthy volunteers (controls), 41 patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and 50 patients with functional dyspepsia. Gastroparesis was found in 51% of our diabetic pati...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Caballero-Plasencia AM,Muros-Navarro MC,Martin-Ruiz JL,Valenzuela-Barranco M,de los Reyes-Garcia MC,Vilchez-Joya R,Casado-Caballero FJ,Gil-Extremera B

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of experimental cholecystitis produced by lysophosphatidylcholine is associated with reversal of the normal absorptive characteristics of gallbladder mucosa, resulting in the intraluminal accumulation of water, glycoprotein, and protein. The purpose of the present study was to attempt to ascertain if t...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Kaminski DL,Deshpande YG,Li A,Dysart F,Nag M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clonality of gastric glands remains a controversial topic. Chimeric mouse studies suggested that all gastric glands were monoclonal. However, using the X-linked transgenic mouse model, we have suggested that most glands are polyclonal during development and that the fraction of monoclonal glands increases after bi...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Nomura S,Kaminishi M,Takagi N,Esumi H

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aims were to measure antral axial forces in patients with suspected upper gut dysmotilities and to compare the number of antral contractions detected by an axial force catheter and by manometric sensors in the distal antrum and pylorus. Fifteen patients (2 men, 13 women; mean age 42 years) underwent studies for 3 ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Surrenti E,Camilleri M,Kammer PP,Prather CM,Schei AJ,Hanson RB

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Biosimilar approval, such as Inflectra™ (CT-P13) for treating ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), has reduced direct drug costs. Though clinicians are comfortable with biosimilar use in treatment-naïve patients, there are concerns in some jurisdictions that there are insufficient data ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Bernard EJ,Fedorak RN,Jairath V

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motor function of the gallbladder after partial distal gastrectomy for gastric carcinoma (Billroth-I reconstruction) and its relationship to the motor function of the stomach was investigated using a double-isotope method. In this method, [99mTc]N-54-pyridoxyl-5-methyltryptophan ([99mTc]PMT) was utilized as a trac...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Hamasaki T,Hamanaka Y,Adachi A,Suzuki T

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin (FN) is important for wound healing via cell proliferation, adhesion, differentiation, and matrix formation. Fetal types of FN mRNA, which include the region of EIIIA or EIIIB, are well expressed during embryonic development and wound healing. This study was done to investigate the mRNA expression of full-...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Tominaga K,Higuchi K,Watanabe T,Fujiwara Y,Kim S,Arakawa T,Iwao H,Kuroki T

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence in the esophagus of three distinct entities--Barrett's mucosa, Crohn's disease, and adenocarcinoma--is a very rare finding. In a 60-year-old man with a long history of heartburn and recently developed dysphagia, narrowing of the distal esophagus was found to be related to the presence of Barrett's mucosa....

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Delpre G,Mor C,Avidor I,Gutman H,Leisser A,Kott I,Kadish U

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose was to observe the effects of sodium phosphate (NaP) colonoscopy preparation on serum electrolytes, phosphate, and calcium and to identify factors associated with any adverse effects. In an unselected group of 100 consecutive patients attending for out patient colonoscopy, 45% of patients had raised serum ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Ainley EJ,Winwood PJ,Begley JP

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonoscopy is the dominant colorectal cancer screening strategy in the USA. There are no randomized controlled trials completed of screening colonoscopy, but multiple lines of evidence establish that colonoscopy reduces colorectal cancer incidence in both the proximal and distal colon. Colonoscopy is highly operator ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Rex DK

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum biochemical tests were observed for about three weeks following oral cholecystography with fractionated high doses (6 g) of iopanoic acid (Telepaque) or sodium ipodate (Biloptin) in 24 and 29 patients, respectively. Both agents produced similar effects. No significant changes were seen in renal or hepatic functi...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Reiner RG,Lawson MJ,Marshall J,Read TR,Beng CG,Davies GT,Tucker WG,Grant AK

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Barrett's esophagus (BE) is characterized by a distinct Th2-predominant cytokine profile. However, antigens that shift the immune response toward the Th2 profile are unknown. AIM:We examined the effects of rebamipide on the esophageal microbiome and BE development in a rat model. METHODS:BE was induced by ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Kohata Y,Nakahara K,Tanigawa T,Yamagami H,Shiba M,Watanabe T,Tominaga K,Fujiwara Y,Arakawa T

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to investigate if interferon plus ribavirin has any effect on serum HCV quasispecies distribution and the relationship between diversity of HCV quasispecies and treatment response. In all, 21 patients were treated with interferon plus ribavirin for 48 weeks. The presence of HCV quasispecies was determined ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Sookoian S,Castaño G,Frider B,Cello J,Campos R,Flichman D

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00