Background The gut microbiome plays an instrumental role in cardiovascular, metabolic and gastrointestinal health (Valdes et al. 2018). In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), one’s health status can ...

Clinic for Internal Medicine I, University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany Background: CD147 (basigin, EMMPRIN) is a multifunctional, highly conserved glycoprotein enriched in pancreatic ductal ...

Using a double-lumen tube perfusion system, solutions of glucose (1·0, 2·5, and 5·0 g 100ml −1) have been perfused into the upper jejunum of 22 Zambian African subjects in order to study their glucose ...

Correspondence to Professor Anna Maria Geretti, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7BE, UK; geretti{at}liverpool.ac.uk ...

Correspondence to Professor Alexander C Ford, Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St. James's, University of Leeds, Leeds LS9 7TF, West Yorkshire, UK; alexf12399{at}yahoo.com Objectives Despite ...

Dr C Feinle, Gastroenterology Division, University Hospital Zurich, Rämistr. 100, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland. BACKGROUND/AIMS We aimed to evaluate the role of fat and cholecystokinin (CCK) in the ...

Inflammatory bowel disease and Parkinson’s disease are chronic progressive disorders that mainly affect different organs: the gut and brain, respectively. Accumulating evidence has suggested a ...

2 Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Peking University School of Oncology, Beijing Cancer Hospital/Institute, ...

1 Department of Medical Genetics and Department of Pathology, Haartman Institute, PO Box 63, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland 2 Department of Medical Genetics, Haartman Institute, PO Box 63, ...

Objective We explored the hypothesis that TGR5, the bile acid (BA) G-protein-coupled receptor highly expressed in biliary epithelial cells, protects the liver against BA overload through the ...

Correspondence to Marc G Besselink, Department of Surgery, Amsterdam Gastroenterology and Metabolism, AMC Amsterdam, 22660, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; m.g.besselink{at}amc.uva.nl Acute pancreatitis ...

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