Many patients with IBD report persisting symptoms, despite resolution of the inflammatory process. Although by definition, a ...

Introduction Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction (DGBI) may be associated with dietary alterations in Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (hEDS), yet the dietary behaviours and factors that influence ...

Introduction Constipation is common in the community, and may affect survival adversely. An association between constipation and development of colorectal cancer (CRC) could be one possible ...

(1) Glutaraldehyde, used in most endoscopy units in the United Kingdom for the disinfection of flexible gastrointestinal endoscopes, is a toxic substance being an irritant and a sensitiser; symptoms ...

1 University of Sheffield, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Academic Unit of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK 2 Department of ...

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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 ...

Dr I Bjarnason, Reader in Medicine and Gastroenterology, Guy’s, King’s, and St Thomas’s Medical Schools, Bessemer Road, London SE5 9PJ, UK. BACKGROUND Diarrhoea in AIDS is associated with anorexia and ...

a Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study Group, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, UK, b Gastroenterology Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK Dr R N Allan, Queen Elizabeth ...

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 ...

Isotopic bile salt studies have been performed in 13 cholecystectomy patients and 10 matched controls using labelled taurocholate and deoxycholic acid. Cholecystectomy subjects have reduced pools of ...

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 ...