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  1. Sclerosing mesenteritis (SM) is sometimes used as an umbrella-term for idiopathic inflammatory conditions in the mesentery. Mesenteric panniculitis (MP) is a radiological finding and its relation to clinical S...

    Authors: Lisa Nyberg, Jan Björk, Peter Björkdahl, Olle Ekberg, Klas Sjöberg and Lina Vigren
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:75
  2. The gut microbiome exerts extensive roles in metabolism of nutrients, pharmaceuticals, organic chemicals. Little has been known for the role of gut microbiota in regulating cholesterol and bile acids in associ...

    Authors: Qihan Wang, Long Jiao, Chuanqi He, Haidong Sun, Qu Cai, Tianquan Han and Hai Hu
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:74
  3. Intestinal fibrosis is a serious complication of inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. There is no specific treatment for intestinal fibrosis. Studies have indicated tha...

    Authors: Jun Bon Koo, Myeong-Ok Nam, Younshin Jung, Jongman Yoo, Duk Hwan Kim, Gwangil Kim, Sung Jae Shin, Kee Myung Lee, Ki Baik Hahm, Jong Woo Kim, Sung Pyo Hong, Kwang Jae Lee and Jun Hwan Yoo
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:73
  4. AL Amyloidosis is known to be a systemic disease affecting multiple organs and tissue while it’s rare that patients present with gastrointestinal symptoms at first and later develop multiple-organ dysfuction. ...

    Authors: Li Tian, Anliu Tang, Xian Zhang, Zhen Mei, Fen Liu, Jingbo Li, Xiayu Li, Feiyan Ai, Xiaoyan Wang and Shourong Shen
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:72
  5. The Tokyo guideline for acute cholecystitis recommended percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage followed by cholecystectomy for severe acute cholecystitis, but the optimal timing for the subsequent chol...

    Authors: Koetsu Inoue, Tatsuya Ueno, Orie Nishina, Daisuke Douchi, Kentaro Shima, Shinji Goto, Michinaga Takahashi, Chikashi Shibata and Hiroo Naito
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:71
  6. Endoscopic papillectomy (EP) is reported to be a relatively safe and reliable procedure for complete resection of ampullary neoplasms. The aim of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic outcomes and complic...

    Authors: Sung Hoon Kang, Kook Hyun Kim, Tae Nyeun Kim, Min Kyu Jung, Chang Min Cho, Kwang Bum Cho, Ji Min Han, Ho Gak Kim and Hyun Soo Kim
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:69
  7. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is associated with increased intestinal permeability, which involves paracellular passage regulated through tight junctions (TJ). The aim of the study was to investigate single...

    Authors: Elisabeth Norén, Sven Almer and Jan Söderman
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:68
  8. By means of 24 h multi-channel intraluminal impedance and pH recording (MII/pH), patients with heartburn and normal upper gastrointestinal endoscopy findings can be classified into those with non-erosive reflu...

    Authors: Feng Gao, Yan Gao, Xue Chen, Jie Qian and Jie Zhang
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:67
  9. The efficacy of chemotherapy for unresectable pancreatic cancer has improved. However, it is occasionally difficult to make treatment decisions for elderly patients. We reviewed the outcomes of elderly patient...

    Authors: Taira Kuroda, Teru Kumagi, Tomoyuki Yokota, Nobuaki Azemoto, Aki Hasebe, Hirotaka Seike, Mari Nishiyama, Nobu Inada, Naozumi Shibata, Hideki Miyata, Tomoe Kawamura, Yusuke Imai, Akiko Ueno-Toshimori, Yoshinori Tanaka, Takashi Terao, Yoshiki Imamura…
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:66
  10. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), functional dyspepsia (FD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are common functional gastrointestinal conditions with a significant impact on daily life. The objectives we...

    Authors: Dorte Ejg Jarbøl, Sanne Rasmussen, Kirubakaran Balasubramaniam, Sandra Elnegaard and Peter Fentz Haastrup
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:65
  11. Cathelicidin (LL-37) is an antimicrobial peptide known to be associated with various autoimmune diseases. We attempt to determine if cathelicidin can accurately reflect IBD disease activity. We hypothesize tha...

    Authors: Diana Hoang-Ngoc Tran, Jiani Wang, Christina Ha, Wendy Ho, S. Anjani Mattai, Angelos Oikonomopoulos, Guy Weiss, Precious Lacey, Michelle Cheng, Christine Shieh, Caroline C. Mussatto, Samantha Ho, Daniel Hommes and Hon Wai Koon
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:63
  12. Mac-2 Binding Protein Glycosylation isomer (M2BPGi) is a novel serological glyco-biomarker for staging liver fibrosis. Here, we aimed to evaluate the efficiency of serum M2BPGi in identifying liver fibrosis st...

    Authors: Hongqin Xu, Wenli Kong, Lei Liu, Xiumei Chi, Xiaomei Wang, Ruihong Wu, Xiuzhu Gao, Huan Wang, Limei Qu, Yue Qi, Yu Pan and Junqi Niu
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:62
  13. To assess the clinical validity of controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) in the diagnosis of hepatic steatosis in a series of overweight or obese children by using the imperfect gold standard methodology.

    Authors: Giovanna Ferraioli, Valeria Calcaterra, Raffaella Lissandrin, Marinella Guazzotti, Laura Maiocchi, Carmine Tinelli, Annalisa De Silvestri, Corrado Regalbuto, Gloria Pelizzo, Daniela Larizza and Carlo Filice
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:61
  14. FBXW7, a component of the Skp-Cullin1-F-box, mediates target protein recognition. It is a tumor suppressor gene that plays a role in the regulation of cell cycle exit and reentry via c-Myc, c-Jun and Notch deg...

    Authors: Mao-Ran Li, Chun-Chao Zhu, Tian-Long Ling, Ye-Qian Zhang, Jia Xu, En-Hao Zhao and Gang Zhao
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:60
  15. Chronic kidney disease is a significant complication after liver transplantation (LT), but the role of pre-existing renal insufficiency and proteinuria remains unclear among LT recipients receiving sirolimus.

    Authors: Lung-Chih Li, Chien-Ning Hsu, Chih-Che Lin, Yu-Fan Cheng, Tsung-Hui Hu, Ding-Wei Chen, Chih-Hsiung Lee, Toshiaki Nakano and Chao-Long Chen
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:58
  16. Advanced stages of liver cirrhosis lead to a dramatically increased mortality. For valid identification of these patients suitable biomarkers are essential. The most important biomarkers for liver function are...

    Authors: Thorsten Kaiser, Benedict Kinny-Köster, Michael Bartels, Thomas Berg, Markus Scholz, Cornelius Engelmann, Daniel Seehofer, Susen Becker, Uta Ceglarek and Joachim Thiery
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:57
  17. Colorectal cancer (CRC) diagnosed at <50 years is predominantly located in the distal colon and rectum. Little is known about which lesion subtypes may serve as CRC precursors in young adults. The aim of this ...

    Authors: Stephanie Wong, Ilmars Lidums, Christophe Rosty, Andrew Ruszkiewicz, Susan Parry, Aung Ko Win, Yoko Tomita, Sina Vatandoust, Amanda Townsend, Dainik Patel, Jennifer E. Hardingham, David Roder, Eric Smith, Paul Drew, Julie Marker, Wendy Uylaki…
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:56
  18. Adding a second endoscopic therapy to epinephrine injection might improve hemostatic efficacy in patients with high-risk bleeding ulcers but the optimum modality remains unknown. We aimed to estimate the compa...

    Authors: Keda Shi, Zeren Shen, Guiqi Zhu, Fansheng Meng, Mengli Gu and Feng Ji
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:55
  19. Patients with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) infection have high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency. Genome-wide association study data has showed that several genetic variants within vitamin D cascade affect vitam...

    Authors: Kessarin Thanapirom, Sirinporn Suksawatamnuay, Wattana Sukeepaisarnjaroen, Pisit Tangkijvanich, Sombat Treeprasertsuk, Panarat Thaimai, Rujipat Wasitthankasem, Yong Poovorawan and Piyawat Komolmit
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:54
  20. The evidence on the role of gut microbiota in post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome (PI-IBS) is convincing. Lactobacillus spp. positively affect IBS symptoms, although the mechanisms through which probiotic...

    Authors: Debora Compare, Alba Rocco, Pietro Coccoli, Debora Angrisani, Costantino Sgamato, Barbara Iovine, Umberto Salvatore and Gerardo Nardone
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:53
  21. The magnitude of risk of serious infections due to available medical therapies of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) remains controversial. We conducted a systematic review and network meta-analysis of the exist...

    Authors: Chelle L. Wheat, Cynthia W. Ko, Kindra Clark-Snustad, David Grembowski, Timothy A. Thornton and Beth Devine
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:52
  22. Controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) and liver stiffness (LS) measured by transient elastography (TE, Fibroscan®) have been used for steatosis and fibrosis assessment. We evaluated the effect of meal intake ...

    Authors: Kanittha Ratchatasettakul, Sasivimol Rattanasiri, Kwannapa Promson, Pranee Sringam and Abhasnee Sobhonslidsuk
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:50
  23. Few studies have investigated the relationship between carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) and serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) normal-range levels across the world. The current analysis was design...

    Authors: Shihui Fu, Ying Lin, Leiming Luo and Ping Ye
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:49
  24. Health care providers need solid evidence based data on cost differences between alternative surgical procedures for common surgical disorders. We aimed to compare small-incision open cholecystectomy (SIOC) an...

    Authors: Mats H. Rosenmüller, Erik Nilsson, Fredrik Lindberg, Sten-Olof Åberg and Markku M. Haapamäki
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:48
  25. Efficacy of maintenance therapy in ulcerative colitis (UC) in the remission stage has been reported to depend on release profile or dosing regimen of oral 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) products used. Aim of th...

    Authors: Masakazu Nagahori, Shuji Kochi, Hiroyuki Hanai, Takayuki Yamamoto, Shiro Nakamura, Soji Omuro, Mamoru Watanabe and Toshifumi Hibi
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:47
  26. The long-term clinical outcomes of antiviral therapy for patients with chronic hepatitis C are uncertain in terms of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related morbidity and mortality according to the response to antivir...

    Authors: Chang Seok Bang and Il Han Song
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:46
  27. To assess the associations of biomarkers of intestinal barrier function and other clinical variables with acute gastrointestinal injury (AGI) grade, and of these clinical variables with mortality in critically...

    Authors: Hongxiang Li, Ying Chen, Feifei Huo, Yushan Wang and Dong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:45
  28. It has been shown that the proportion of natural killer T cells is markedly elevated during liver regeneration and their activation under different conditions can modulate this process. As natural killer T cel...

    Authors: Ami Ben Ya’acov, Hadar Meir, Lydia Zolotaryova, Yaron Ilan and Eyal Shteyer
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:44
  29. Acute pancreatitis is a severe complication of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). Previous meta-analyses have shown that indomethacin effectively prevents this complication; however, the da...

    Authors: Jianhua Wan, Yuping Ren, Zhenhua Zhu, Liang Xia and Nonghua Lu
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:43
  30. European researchers have underscored associations between single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs2287622 of the hepatobiliary bile salt export pump (BSEP) gene and the risk of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infectio...

    Authors: Jian-Hua Lei, Xu Yang, Xin-Qiang Xiao, Zi Chen and Feng Peng
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:42
  31. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been increasingly practiced on gastric cancer (GC), and histological evaluation to predict outcome is urgent in clinical practice. There are five classic tumor regression grading (...

    Authors: Yuelu Zhu, Yongkun Sun, Shangying Hu, Yong Jiang, Jiangying Yue, Xuemin Xue, Lin Yang and Liyan Xue
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:41
  32. Apoptosis inhibitor of macrophages (AIM) was initially identified as an apoptosis inhibitor that supports the survival of macrophages against various apoptosis-inducing stimuli, and AIM produced by macrophages...

    Authors: Yohei Ono, Shuji Kanmura, Yuko Morinaga, Kohei Oda, Katsuto Kawabata, Shiho Arima, Fumisato Sasaki, Yuichirou Nasu, Shiroh Tanoue, Shinichi Hashimoto, Hiroki Taguchi, Hirofumi Uto, Hirohito Tsubouchi and Akio Ido
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:40
  33. There have been limited studies directly comparing the long-term efficacy between entecavir (ETV) and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF). This study was aimed to compare the long-term efficacy between them in...

    Authors: Ji Won Park, Kyeong Min Kwak, Sung Eun Kim, Myoung Kuk Jang, Ki Tae Suk, Dong Joon Kim, Sang Hoon Park, Myung Seok Lee, Hyoung Su Kim and Choong Kee Park
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:39
  34. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is a technically challenging endoscopic procedure, harboring a wide range of complexities within every single investigation. Classifications of the complex...

    Authors: Greger Olsson, Urban Arnelo, Fredrik Swahn, Björn Törnqvist, Lars Lundell and Lars Enochsson
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:38
  35. In type 1 multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN1), esophageal diseases association with excessive gastrin secretion in Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (ZES) sometimes develop. Here, we reported a case of MEN1/ZES, who ...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Matsubayashi, Noboru Kawata, Naomi Kakushima, Masaki Tanaka, Kohei Takizawa, Yoshimi Kiyozumi, Yasue Horiuchi, Keiko Sasaki, Teiichi Sugiura, Katsuhiko Uesaka and Hiroyuki Ono
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:37
  36. Acute pancreatitis is a potentially lethal disease, with a rising incidence in the Western world. Yet, no pharmacological prevention or specific treatment for acute pancreatitis exists. Also, the connection wi...

    Authors: Tomas S. Bexelius, Rickard Ljung, Fredrik Mattsson, Yunxia Lu and Mats Lindblad
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:36
  37. NAFLD is associated to Insulin Resistance (IR). IR is responsible for Endothelial Dysfunction (ED) through the impairment of eNOS function. Although eNOS derangement has been demonstrated in experimental model...

    Authors: Marcello Persico, Mario Masarone, Antonio Damato, Mariateresa Ambrosio, Alessandro Federico, Valerio Rosato, Tommaso Bucci, Albino Carrizzo and Carmine Vecchione
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:35

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  38. Polyethylene glycosylated (PEGylated) porcine glucagon-like peptide-2 (pGLP-2) considerably increases half-life and stability compared with the native pGLP-2, but the effective dose for intestinal damage is st...

    Authors: Ke-ke Qi, Jia-jia Lv, Jie Wu and Zi-wei Xu
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:34
  39. Claudins are a family of integral membrane proteins and are components of tight junctions (TJs). Many TJ proteins are known to tighten the cell structure and maintain a barrier. Claudin-2 forms gated paracellu...

    Authors: Sohaib Abu-Farsakh, Tongtong Wu, Amy Lalonde, Jun Sun and Zhongren Zhou
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:33
  40. Liver failure (LF) is associated with prolonged hospital stay, increased cost and substantial mortality. Due to the limited number of donor organs, extracorporeal liver support is suggested as an appealing con...

    Authors: Wolfgang Huber, Benedikt Henschel, Roland Schmid and Ahmed Al-Chalabi
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:32
  41. Helicobacter pylori eradication rates in Portugal are declining, due to increased resistance of this bacterium to antimicrobial agents, especially Clarithromycin. Quadruple Levofloxaci...

    Authors: Diogo Branquinho, Nuno Almeida, Carlos Gregório, José Eduardo Pina Cabral, Adriano Casela, Maria Manuel Donato and Luís Tomé
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:31
  42. In patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the multikinase inhibitor sorafenib is the only systemic treatment that has been shown to increase overall survival. However, similar to other tyrosine...

    Authors: Catherine Atkin, Philip Earwaker, Arvind Pallan, Shishir Shetty, Pankaj Punia and Yuk Ting Ma
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:30
  43. Gastrointestinal fistula (GIF) in severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) is considered as a sparse episode and studied sporadically in the literature. There is paucity of data on the prediction of the effect on risk ...

    Authors: Zhipeng Hua, Yongjie Su, Xuefeng Huang, Kang Zhang, Zhengyu Yin, Xiaoming Wang and Pingguo Liu
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:29
  44. Colitis is exacerbated in patients with concurrent cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We assessed the prevalence and clinical features of CMV colitis in hospitalized IBD pati...

    Authors: Meng-Tzu Weng, Chien-Chih Tung, Yi-Shuan Lee, Yew-Loong Leong, Ming-Jium Shieh, Chia-Tung Shun, Cheng-Yi Wang, Jau-Min Wong and Shu-Chen Wei
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:28
  45. Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection is present in about 50% of the global population, and is associated with chronic gastritis, peptic disease and gastric malignancies. HP prevalence in Crohn’s disease (CD) pat...

    Authors: Adi Lahat, Uri Kopylov, Sandra Neuman, Nina Levhar, Doron Yablecovitch, Benjamin Avidan, Batia Weiss, Shomron Ben-Horin and Rami Eliakim
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:27

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