The aim of this study was to establish the relative importance of risk factors for mortality after acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage, and to formulate a simple numerical scoring system that ...

2 Nutritional Sciences Research Division, King’s College London, London, UK 3 Antigen Presentation Research Group, Imperial College London, Northwick Park and St Mark’s Campus, Harrow, UK ...

1 Sections of Gastroenterology and Health Services Research at the Houston Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA 2 ...

Objectives Interaction between neoplastic and stromal cells plays an important role in tumour progression. It was recently found that WNT2 was frequently overexpressed in fibroblasts isolated from ...

Objectives The incidence of gastric cancer continues to decrease globally, approaching levels that in some populations could define it as a rare disease. To explore this on a wider scale, we predict ...

Introduction Human factors play an important role in adverse incidents and complaints in healthcare. Simulation is increasingly recognised as a safe and effective platform for human factors training.

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Clinica, Università di Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy Dr F Pallone, Cattedra di Gastroenterologia, Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Policlinico Universitario ...

Objective Our previous studies have identified CXCL8 as the crucial chemokine responsible for gastric cancer metastasis mediated by loss of RACK1. However, the regulatory effect of CXCL8 on immune ...

a Academic Unit of Pathology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, b Centre for Digestive Diseases, General Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds, UK Professor M F Dixon, Academic Unit of Pathology, Algernon Firth ...

Gastroparesis is defined by delayed gastric emptying (GE) and symptoms of nausea, vomiting, bloating, postprandial fullness, early satiety and abdominal pain. Most common aetiologies include diabetes, ...

The understanding of the pathophysiology of Crohn’s disease is currently undergoing a reassessment. The concept of this disease as a primary T cell disorder is being questioned, with a new emphasis on ...

Dr S Matsumoto, Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, Yaho 1796, Kunitachi-shi, Tokyo 186-8650, Japan. Background—A new subline of the senescence accelerated mouse (SAM) P1/Yit strain ...