Correspondence to Dr G Nicholas Verne, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699, USA; gverne{at}tulane.edu Background More effective treatments are ...

The Membrane Transport Laboratory, Cancer and Cell Biology Division, The Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Correspondence to: Dr V N Subramaniam The Membrane ...

BACKGROUND The epidemiology and natural history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the UK are uncertain. Previous reports are from small or selected populations such as blood donors or tertiary ...

Crohn disease is a chronic condition characterised by intestinal inflammation and progressive bowel damage associated with impaired functioning. In rheumatoid arthritis, which shares some common ...

Dr V V Smith, Histopathology, Camelia Botnar Laboratories, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK. Three infants, who presented with intestinal obstruction due to ...

1 Mech-Sense, Department of Gastroenterology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark 2 Center for Sensory-Motor Interactions, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, ...

11 Liver Unit, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is an increasing cause of liver disease necessitating liver transplantation. In patients with advanced ...

Correspondence to Dr Mayur Garg, Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University, Box Hill, VIC 3800, Australia; mayur.garg{at}monash.edu Objective We evaluated the influence of the ...

a Ist Department of Medicine, Christian-Albrechts- University Kiel, Germany, b Institute of Anatomy, Christian-Albrechts- University Kiel, Germany Dr D Seegert, Ist Department of Medicine, ...

Objective The crypt population in the human intestine is dynamic: crypts can divide to produce two new daughter crypts through a process termed crypt fission, but whether this is balanced by a second ...

Bile acid metabolism was investigated in 10 patients after cholecystectomy, 10 gallstone patients, and 10 control subjects. Diurnal variations of serum levels of cholic and chenodeoxycholic acid ...

Objective Limitations of existing impedance-pH thresholds include small sample size of normative studies, inclusion of artefactual pH drops and incorrect identification of impedance reflux events. We ...