Objective Bone marrow-derived myeloid cells accumulate in the liver as monocytes and macrophages during the progression of obesity-related non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) to steatohepatitis ...

Introduction Studies describing the epidemiology of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in the UK have been limited by small sample size and low generalisability. We describe temporal trends in the ...

Background—Type 1 gastric carcinoids are associated with hypergastrinaemia and chronic atrophic gastritis, type 2 occur in patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 combined with ...

Introduction Gastrostomy tubes for enteral nutrition are most commonly inserted via percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) or radiologically inserted gastrostomy (RIG) techniques. However, there is ...

Introduction Whilst comfort scoring is an auditable standard for quality in colonoscopy, there is currently no widely accepted comfort score for gastroscopy. We developed a five point gastroscopy ...

Objective The role of the brain–gut axis is of increasing interest in IBD, as the link between common mental disorders and GI inflammation may be bidirectional. We performed a systematic review ...

6 Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia Correspondence to Dr Claire O'Brien, Medical School, Australian National University, ...

Dr G G Forstner, Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada email:gforst{at}sickkids.on.ca BACKGROUND AND AIMS ...

1 Nashville VA Medical Center and the Departments of Surgery and Cell and Developmental Biology, Epithelial Biology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA 2 ...

Department of Immunology, Gastroenterology and Colorectal Surgery, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA Department of Medicine and The Will Rogers ...

Correspondence to Dr Ka Shing Cheung, Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, Hong Kong; cks634{at}hku.hk; Prof Wai-Kay Seto; wkseto{at}hku.hk Objective Whether varying ...

BACKGROUND Oxidative and nitrosative stress have been implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseases. AIMS To study the role of nitric oxide (NO) derived from inducible NO synthase ...