Human chorionic gonadotropin-beta in the differentiation of malignancy-related and nonmalignant ascites.

abstract：:This study evaluated the effect of a cellulose meal and a cellulose-oleic acid meal on gastroduodenal motility and gastric emptying. The cellulose meal produced a high antral motility index (100 +/- 34 V/10 min) and a high proportion (80.2%) of propulsive duodenal contractions. The oleic acid meal was associated with ...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Schemann M,Ehrlein HJ

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide viral hepatitis is the most common cause of jaundice, chronic liver disease cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. While important advances have been made in prevention of viral hepatitis, therapy of this disease remains unsatisfactory. There are no specific therapies of proven benefit for acute hepatitis, ...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Hoofnagle JH

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different materials dissolved in 0.9% NaCl were injected into the connective, interlobular tissue of the duodenal part of the rat pancreas. Activated rat pancreatic juice or trypsin were able to induce localized necrohemorrhagic pancreatitis. Only mild edema and leukocytic infiltration were observed after injecting bo...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Odaira C,Berger Z,Iovanna JL,Sarles H

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:Rats were given 59Fe (28 micrograms) together with doses of 0, 2 and 200 micrograms of uroporphyrin III in paired observations. Absorption of 59Fe was determined by comparing whole body counts of the rats 30 min and 7 days after dosing. Prior treatment with 200 micrograms of uroporphyrin twice daily for 3 days was ass...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Weaver GA,Franck CA,Harris MD,Peters T Jr

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a continuous diseases spectrum associated with obesity, type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, and hyperlipidemia. Simple hepatic steatosis may progress to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), even fibrosis and cirrhosis, and finally hepatocellular carcinoma. In rece...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Zhong F,Zhou X,Xu J,Gao L

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We aimed to compare the efficacy of endoscopic ultrasound elastography (EUS-EG) with that of magnifying chromoendoscopy (MCE) and endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) for the diagnosis of the depth of invasion in colorectal neoplasms. This is an important clinical issue as the depth of invasion is associated w...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Esaki M,Yamamura T,Nakamura M,Maeda K,Sawada T,Mizutani Y,Ishikawa E,Suzuki H,Kuno T,Yamada K,Hasegawa I,Ishikawa T,Kakushima N,Furukawa K,Ohno E,Kawashima H,Hirooka Y,Fujishiro M

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The form in which copper is bound in bile was studied in bile from patients with Wilson's disease, control subjects and rats. Bile was labelled with 64Cu. Sephadex column chromatography using gels G-200--G-10 showed a major 64Cu and protein peak of about 5,000 daltons and a minor peak of about 8,000 daltons. A high-mo...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Frommer DJ

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hepatitis C virus (HCV) chronically infected patient developed an episode of acute hepatitis during the course of immunosuppressive therapy given for a lymphoproliferative disease. It was noted that anti-HCV antibody response, seen to be relatively stable during the follow-up, lowered dramatically in coincidence wit...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Sansonno D,Procaccio P,Dammacco F

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated a hand-held scintillation detector for intra-operative localisation of somatostatin-receptor-positive tumours in situ, and after excision, as an addition to preoperative scintigraphy with [111In-DTPA-Phe1]octreotide. Using the hand-held detector, the suspect tumour/normal tissue ratio R(in situ) between m...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Ahlman H

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elimination of endogenous carboxyamidated and glycine-extended gastrins in liver and gut was studied before and after feeding in 14 anesthetized pigs. Before the meal, liver and gut extractions were nonsignificant. After feeding, the release rate of amidated gastrin increased from 7.5 +/- 2.6 to 21.9 +/- 5.3 pmol/...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Hansen CP,Stadil F,Rehfeld JF

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that dietary long-chain triglycerides and 16,16-dimethyl prostaglandin E2 enhance and aspirin impairs postresection mucosal adaptation in rats. The present studies examined the hypothesis that supplemental linoleic acid (LA) above the minimum requirement may enhance postresection mucosal adaptation throu...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Park JH,Grandjean CJ,Hart MH,Baylor JM,Vanderhoof JA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of adrenergic and cholinergic influences on the gastric D cell were studied using an isolated perfused rat stomach in vitro. The sevenfold increase in the release of somatostatin-like immunoreactivity (SLI) in response to isoproterenol (4 . 10(-8) M) was dose-dependently inhibited by acetylcholine (10...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Koop H,Behrens I,Bothe E,McIntosh CH,Pederson RA,Arnold R,Creutzfeldt W

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of pancreatic enzymes decrease during their passage from the duodenum to the terminal ileum, but degradation rates of individual enzymes are different. Whereas lipase activity is lost most rapidly, proteases and amylase are more stable. The mechanism by which lipase activity is destroyed is proteolysis,...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Layer P,Gröger G

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholecystokinin (CCK) is known to inhibit gastric acid secretion and gastric emptying but its physiological role in the inhibition of gastric functions is not settled. In this study performed on 16 young male subjects, gastric acid secretion and emptying rate were determined after intragastric administration of 8% pep...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Konturek SJ,Kwiecien N,Obtulowicz W,Kopp B,Oleksy J,Rovati L

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:In an attempt to evaluate a possible correlation between cryptogenic chronic liver disease and a present or past hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, we studied 17 patients with hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-negative, nonalcoholic chronic liver disease; 9 of them were positive for serum HBsAg detected by a solid-p...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Diodati G,Pontisso P,Bonetti P,Stenico D,Noventa F,Alberti A,Realdi G

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Probiotics appear to improve Helicobacter pylori-associated dyspepsia via an inhibitory effect on H. pylori; however, uncertainty exists regarding their effects in H. pylori-uninfected individuals. We evaluated the efficacy of Lactobacillus gasseri OLL2716 (L. gasseri OLL2716) on H. pylori-uninfected in...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Ohtsu T,Takagi A,Uemura N,Inoue K,Sekino H,Kawashima A,Uchida M,Koga Y

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daily faecal calcium and magnesium outputs were inversely related to food-stimulated colonic intraluminal pressure in diverticular disease subjects. There was no relationship to sodium potassium and bile acid concentrations, nor to intestinal transit. ...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Eastwood MA,Smith AN,Mitchell WD,Pritchard JL

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated acinar cells from rat pancreas responded well to hormonal treatment. Both secretin (synthetic and highly purified from porcine origin) and CCK-octapeptide stimulated amylase secretion in these cells. The response in both cases was very rapid. A maximal output of enzyme was reached within 5-10 min after the ad...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Lee PC

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:94 patients with peptic ulcerations of duodenum, stomach, and esophagus, who did not respond to 3 or more months high-dose (450 or 600 mg) treatment with ranitidine, were treated orally with 40 mg omeprazole daily. After healing all patients were offered long-term maintenance therapy with the same dose for 5 years. In...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Brunner G,Creutzfeldt W,Harke U,Lamberts R

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeated intravenous injections of 2.0 clinical units (CU) secretin per kg body weight showed no effect on jejunal glucose absorption and net water movement in perfusion studies in vivo. The in vitro uptake of galactose and 3-O-methylglucose was not altered by a secretin load given 12 min before sacrifice. The values ...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Böhmer R,Rommel K

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:In this report, we aimed to investigate the distribution and characterization of biomarker-immunolabeled ductal epithelium in advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). DESIGN:Eighteen patients with PDAC were medically diagnosed prior to being treated periodically. All clinical records were coll...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Zhou R,Xu X,Liu M,Wu X,Li R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This prospective study was designed to validate a novel biopsy urease test as well as a simplified 13C-urea breath test for the detection of Helicobacter pylori. In addition, the hypothesis was tested that both the reaction velocity of the urease test and the 13CO2 excess of the urea breath test may allow a prediction...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Labenz J,Bärsch G,Peitz U,Aygen S,Hennemann O,Tillenburg B,Becker T,Stolte M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Several studies performed in Western countries demonstrate the association between sleep dysfunction and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), especially when nighttime heartburn is present. The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence and risk factors of sleep dysfunction, and the effec...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Fujiwara Y,Kohata Y,Kaji M,Nebiki H,Yamasaki T,Sasaki E,Hayakawa T,Machida H,Tanigawa T,Watanabe K,Watanabe T,Tominaga K,Arakawa T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine the relative importance of the enzymes ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) and diamine oxidase (DAO) in intestinal polyamine metabolism in normal rats. To study this we measured jejunal and ileal DAO and ODC activities and polyamine levels 2 h after injecting, in non-fasting male Wistar ...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Rokkas T,Vaja S,Taylor P,Murphy GM,Dowling RH

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have followed the time-course of the morphological and functional recovery of intestinal mucosa after 90 min of mesenteric vascular occlusion. At the end of the ischemic period the villi were smashed, but crypts were preserved. Microvillous hydrolase activities showed a dramatic drop when compared with sham-operate...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Kummerlen C,Seiler N,Galluser M,Gossé F,Knodgen B,Hasselmann M,Raul F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum antibodies directed against 5 alimentary antigens and antigen-antibody complexes were determined in 15 control subjects and in 15 patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis. Cirrhotic patients presented an increased immune response against these antigens. Antigen-antibody complexes were detected in the fasting plas...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： André F,Druguet M,André C

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevention of Helicobacter pylori infection may help to control related gastritis, peptic ulcer and cancer. Of the possible preventive measures, immunization was successfully employed in various animal studies. However, no immunization protocol has been accepted for humans. A better characterization of the i...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Lazowska I,Trzeciak L,Godlewska R,Hennig E,Jagusztyn-Krynicka K,Popowski J,Regula J,Ostrowski J

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Adenosine deaminase (ADA)-deficient disease, a severe combined immunodeficiency, is most commonly associated with gastrointestinal disorders such as ulcer. The present study investigated the role of ADA in the pathogenesis of gastric ulcer. METHODS:ADA activity was measured in a variety of organs and t...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Yaguchi T,Saito M,Yasuda Y,Nishizaki T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00