Study approach The TRINITY study was a prospective diagnostic accuracy trial conducted at the Asian Institute of ...

Background Despite the long-standing recommendations of high-protein diets for patients with cancer, the precise mechanisms of this dietary approach in benefiting tumour suppression and enhancing ...

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health ...

Background Plant-derived exosome-like nanoparticles (PELNs) have been considered to have great prospects in the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC) as they serve as a natural nano-drug carrier that ...

BACKGROUND Cholesterol gall stones are a frequent disease for which at present surgery is the usual therapy. Despite the importance of bile acids it has become evident that phospholipids are the main ...

2 Hepatic Hemodynamic Laboratory, Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Barcelona, Spain Correspondence to ...

Correspondence to Brian B Scott, Department of Medicine, Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln LN2 5QY, UK; drbbscott{at}aol.com Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) occurs in 2–5% of adult men and postmenopausal ...

7 Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany 8 Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Objective Bacterial translocation to ...

Introduction The Rome Foundation stated recommendations in 2016 to report confounding factors in clinical trials concerning functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) [1]. The aim of our study was ...

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 ...

Objective Hepatitis B virus (HBV) can integrate into the chromosomes of infected hepatocytes, contributing to the production of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and to hepatocarcinogenesis. In this ...