Multiphoton microscopy (MPM), based on two-photon excited fluorescence and second harmonic generation, enables direct no......

BACKGROUND Lymphangiomatosis is a multisystem disorder that is rarely localized to the gastrointestinal tract.Lymphangio......

BACKGROUND Gastric pull-up after esophagectomy is still a demanding surgical procedure and associated with considerable ......

BACKGROUND Cytomegalovirus(CMV)colitis is usually seen in immunocompromised patients with risk factors such as human imm......

To the Editor:Colonic diverticulosis is a common colon disorder worldwide and is mostly observed in the right colon in A......

Our relationship with the colonic bacterial flora has long been viewed as benign, but recent studies suggest that this s......

AIM:To investigate the role of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate(NADPH) oxidase in colon epithelial cells in t......

AIM: To examine the discrepancy, if any, between the endoscopist’s estimate and pathologist’s measurement of colonic p......

A recent paper by Boal Carvalho et al demonstrates the potential of Pill Cam COLON 2?(PCC2) as a panenteric investigatio......

The single-balloon enteroscopy(SBE) system was launched in 2007, proposed as a simpler method than double-balloon entero......

AIM: To study the effect of the opioid-receptor like-1(ORL1) agonist nociceptin on gastrointestinal(GI)myenteric neurotr......

AIM: To examine the correlation between the severity of venous calcifications and the clinical symptoms of phlebosclerot......

AIM: To evaluate the accuracy of diffusion-weighted imaging(DWI) without bowel preparation,the optimal b value and the c......

Although well recognized for tubo-ovarian abscesses, we report, in our best knowledge, the first case of a vaginal drain......

AIM: To determine the effect of discontinuing nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs(NSAIDs) on recurrence in long-term fol......

Sarcoidosis is a multisystem chronic inflammatory condition of unknown etiology that has the potential to involve every ......

AIM:To evaluate the effectiveness of barium impaction therapy for patients with colonic diverticular bleeding.METHODS:We......

Chronic idiopathic constipation is a common disorder of the gastrointestinal tract that encompasses a wide profile of sy......

Colonoscopy techniques combining or replacing air insufflation with water infusion are becoming increasinglypopular.They......

AIM:To establish a rat model suitable to investigate the repetitive relapsing inflammations(RRI)characteristic to Crohn......

AIM: To investigate the effects of nilotinib in a rat model of indomethacin-induced enterocolitis.METHODS: Twenty-one Wi......

Ulcerative colitis(UC) is an inflammatory destructive disease of the large intestine occurred usually in the rectum and ......

AIM: To evaluate the efficacy of the improvedthrombospondin mimetic peptide ABT-898 in a murine model of ulcerative coli......

AIM:To investigate the effects of the chemokine stromal cell-derived factor-1(CXCL12) receptor(CXCR4) antagonist AMD3100......

AIM:To investigate the possible biological outcome and effect of glutamine depletion in neonatal mice and rodent intesti......

Objective To investigate the expression of Notch-1 and Jagged-2 in the normal and spastic segments of colon in patients ......

AIM:To investigate intestinal alkaline phosphatase(iAP) in the intestinal mucosa of children with inflammatory bowel dis......

Turner syndrome (TS) is a female chromosomal disorder caused by the lack of an X chromosome. The loss of this chromosome......

Objective To study the relaxant effect mechanism of an estrone derivate EA303 on isolate colonic smooth muscle of rabbit......

Objective Mucus forms the physical barrier along the gastrointestinal(GI)tract.It plays an important role to prevent muc......

AIM To investigate the pharmacological effect of Tong XieYao Fang(TXYF) formula, a Chinese herbal formula, on Diarrhea-p......

AIM:to investigate the effect of Bifidobacterium infantis(B.infantis)on the T cell subsets and in attenuating the severi......

AIM: To determine if expression of colonic tryptophan hydroxylase-2(TPH2), a surrogate marker of neuronal 5-hydroxytrypt......

AIM: To investigate anti-hypersensitive effects of α2δ-1 ligands in non-inflammatory and inflammationassociated coloni......

Objective: To investigate the differen t expression of three isozymes of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in diabetic rat co......

Aims:To study the feasibility and safety of a dual (combined transgastric and transcolonic) entrance for cholecystectomy......

AIM:To investigate the protective effects of combinations of probiotic(Bifico)on interleukin(IL)-10-genedeficient(IL-10 ......

AIM: To investigate whether the reduction of stem cell factor (SCF) is mediated by decreased endogenous insulin-like gro......

About 20000 gastrointestinal endoscopies are performed annually in America in pregnant women. Gastrointestinal endoscopy......

Since the early reports nearly a decade ago, proton-pump inhibitor-induced hypomagnesemia(PPIH) has become a well-recogn......

新生儿全结肠型无神经节细胞症(Total colonic aganglionosis,TCA)约占先天性巨结肠总数的5％～10％,死亡率高,Martin(1968)曾报告高达65......

AIM:Angiogenesis is an important step in the growth ofsolid malignant tumors.A number of angiogenic factors havebeen fo......

I-labeled anti-CEA monoclonal antibody injected intrasplenically has better effects on inhibiting liver metastasis from ......

AIM:To investigate KAI1 gene expression in the progressionof human colonic carcinoma and its clinical significances.MET......

AIM:To investigate the antiangiogenic effects of endostatin on colonic carcinoma cell line implanted in nude mice and it......

AIM:To study the diagnostic significance of K-ras genemutations in fecal samples from elderly patients with largeintest......

Aim: To study the distribution of [~(131)I]-labeled anti-CEA MoAbs and its therapeutic effect on the human colonic canc......

AIM: To investigate the autofluorescence spectroscopic differences in normal and adenomatous coionic tissues and to dete......

Angiolipoma, a common benign tumor mostly seen in the subcutaneous tissue, is a rare pathological condition in the gastr......

AIM: To investigate the effects and mechanisms of Verapamil on cultured human colonic tumor (HCT) cells. METHODS: HCT ce......