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 ...

Background: Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) often feel they have some form of dietary intolerance and frequently try exclusion diets. Tests attempting to predict food sensitivity in IBS ...

Correspondence to Professor Herbert Tilg, Department of Internal Medicine I, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck 6020, Austria; ...

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 ...

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

2 Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, Japan 3 Department of Internal Medicine, GI Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 4 ...

It is reported that up to 10–25% of all diagnoses of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) occur in those aged less than 18 years.1 The long-term impact of disease for those likely to live 70+ years with ...

1 Faculty of Health Sciences, The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology and The Cancer Research Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 2 Department of ...

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 ...

Dr L Lundell, Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, S-413 45 Göteborg, Sweden. BACKGROUND Endoscopic oesophageal changes are diagnostically helpful and identify patients exposed to ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Controversy surrounds the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) in ulcerative colitis (UC). Many studies have investigated this risk and reported widely varying rates. METHODS A ...

1 Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, University Medical Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany 2 Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Medical Hospital Tübingen, Germany 3 ...