The recent commentary by Manning et al highlights difficulties comparing results of gastrointestinal microbiome cohort studies.1 They demonstrate how methodological heterogeneity can substantially ...

Background Current microbiome-based therapeutics face two prominent issues: the limited clinical efficacy of probiotics and the significant variability in the efficacy of microbiota transplantation ...

The commonly reported gastrointestinal side effects that occur with erythromycin are related to its prokinetic action on the gut, mediated, at least in part, by its motilin receptor stimulating ...

4 Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 5 Department of Medicine, Department of ...

Correspondence to Dr Johannes Wiegand, Department of Gastroenterology, Leipzig University, Leipzig 04103, Sachsen, Germany; Johannes.Wiegand{at}medizin.uni-leipzig.de ...

Objective MicroRNA (miR)-301a is known to be involved in the tumourigenesis and pathogenesis of several autoimmune diseases, but it remains unclear whether miR-301a is associated with the pathogenesis ...

Correspondence to Professors Guenter Weiss and Igor Theurl, Department of Internal Medicine VI, Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Rheumatology, Pneumology, Anichstrasse 35, Medical University Innsbruck ...

Correspondence to Professor Jianguo Chen, Department of Etiology, Qidong Liver Cancer Institute, Qidong People’s Hospital, Qidong 226200, China; chenjg{at}ntu.edu.cn and Professor Hong Tu, State Key ...

1 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, ...

1 Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA 2 Infectious Disease Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard ...

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Background Gut microbial metabolites are recognised as critical effector molecules that influence the development of colorectal cancer (CRC). Peptidoglycan fragments (PGFs) produced by microbiota play ...