Background Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common and preventable disease for which screening rates by colonoscopy remain unacceptably low. Our primary objective was to develop and validate a clinical ...

In an attempt to study the relative toxicity of anthraquinonic laxatives on intestinal mucosa, we compared in mice the effects of fruit pulp containing sennosides A and B with those of a free ...

Objective Chronic pancreatitis is a progressive inflammatory disorder of the pancreas characterised by permanent destruction of acinar cells. Mutations in the chymotrypsinogen C (CTRC) gene have been ...

The colonic biopsy specimens of 22 patients with colitis and positive stool cultures for Campylobacter jejuni were studied in order to obtain histological and immunohistochemical criteria to ...

2 Center for Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 3 Translational Research Center for Gastrointestinal ...

Correspondence to Dr Citadel J Cabasag, Cancer Surveillance Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; cabasagc{at}fellows.iarc.fr We read with interest the commentary by ...

Correspondence to Dr Feng Sun, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China; sunfeng{at}bjmu.edu.cn SS and QY contributed equally.

Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany Correspondence to: G Rogler Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany; ...

Objective Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) influence the tumour microenvironment and tumour growth. However, the role of CAFs in colorectal cancer (CRC) development is incompletely understood.

1 Department of Gastroenterology, Barts and The London NHS Trust, London, UK 2 Upper Gastrointestinal Physiology Unit, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK 3 Department of ...

1 Dalhousie Inflammation Group and Department of Pediatrics, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 2 Dalhousie Inflammation Group and ...

Correspondence to Dr L M G Moons, Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, Utrecht, GA 3508, The Netherlands; l.m.g.moons{at}umcutrecht.nl ...