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 ...

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, ...

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium Correspondence to: Professor S Vermeire Department of Internal Medicine, Division of ...

Department of Physiology I, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Dr W Jiménez, Servicio Bioquímica y Genética Molecular, ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), encompassing Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, has multifactorial aetiology with complex interactions between genetic and environmental factors. Over 150 ...

Dr A L Warshaw, W Gerald Austen Professor of Surgery, Surgeon-in-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA. Background—Ectopic protease activation, microcirculatory ...