The effects of sodium butyrate and sodium bromo-octanoate (an inhibitor of beta oxidation) on colonic mucus glycoprotein (mucin) synthesis have been assessed using tissue from colonic resection ...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has rapidly become the most common chronic liver disease globally and is currently estimated to affect up to 38% of the global adult population. NAFLD is a ...

Correspondence to Dr Melina Arnold, Section of Cancer Surveillance, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, Lyon 69008, France; arnoldm{at}fellows.iarc.fr Objective The ...

While extensive previous references in the literature leave little doubt that disease in the posterior pararenal space can obliterate the psoas margin either in its entirety or in part, little work ...

Objective The gut microbiota has been implicated in the aetiology of obesity and associated comorbidities. Patients with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) are obese but partly protected against insulin ...

The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Christine A Iacobuzio-Donahue, Associate Professor of Pathology, ...

a Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, b Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, ...

Dr A B Pulimood, Department of Surgery, School of Surgical Sciences, Medical School, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4HH, UK. BACKGROUND Intestinal tuberculosis and Crohn’s disease ...

The leucocyte migration inhibition (LMI) test was used as an indicator of cell mediated immunity to gluten fraction III in 30 healthy controls and 58 patients with adult coeliac disease and the ...

Background Ultra-short coeliac disease (USCD) is defined as villous atrophy only present in the duodenal bulb (D1) with concurrent positive coeliac serology. We present the first, multicentre, ...

Introduction FIT (faecal immunochemical test) is recommended by NICE in the assessment of symptomatic patients who do not meet criteria for urgent suspected cancer referral. It can be a useful tool ...

Introduction Delay in diagnosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) is associated with worse outcomes. Although studies have shown the incidence of CRC missed at endoscopy to be 2.5%-7.7% (Morris et al., 2014) ...