Background Post-infection disorders of gut-brain interaction (PI-DGBI) are a subset of chronic gastrointestinal disorders triggered by acute infectious gastroenteritis. These conditions impose a ...

The gut microbiota plays a crucial role in regulating host immunity, metabolism and inflammation, with accumulating evidence linking its composition and function to the development and progression of ...

Dr S Blum, Department of Immunology, Nestlé Research Centre, Vers-Chez-les-Blanc, Ch-1000 Lausanne 26, Switzerland. Email: stephanie.blum-sperisen{at}rdls.nestle.com BACKGROUND AND AIM Intestinal ...

Objective A simple combined score with liver stiffness, controlled attenuation parameter and serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST), the FibroScan-AST (FAST) score, has been proposed to non-invasively ...

Objective Population-based data are lacking regarding the risk of overall and cause-specific mortality across the complete histological spectrum of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Design ...

2 Institute of Digestive Disease and the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong ...

2 Inserm U954, Genetic Nutrition and Exposure to Environmental Risks (NGERE), University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre- lès-Nancy, France Correspondence to Professor Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, Inserm U954 and ...

Objective Hepatitis E virus (HEV), one of the most common agent of acute hepatitis worldwide, is mainly transmitted enterically, via contaminated water for HEV genotypes 1 (HEV1) and HEV2, or by ...

Objective This randomised trial aimed to address whether endoscopic variceal ligation (EVL) or propranolol (PPL) is more effective at preventing initial oesophageal variceal bleeding (EVB) in patients ...

Objective Butyrate exerts metabolic benefits in mice and humans, the underlying mechanisms being still unclear. We aimed to investigate the effect of butyrate on appetite and energy expenditure, and ...

1 Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 2 Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 3 Department of ...

1 Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA 2 Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA 3 Division of ...