Background and aims Restoration of intestinal barrier integrity and function in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been ...

We read with great interest the recent study by Lau et al , who reported distinct intrahepatic hepatitis B virus (HBV) ...

Background Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) enables en bloc resection of early gastrointestinal cancers and provides ...

The trial by Yadav and colleagues concludes that proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) should be continued routinely after endoscopic ...

We read the global analysis of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in cirrhosis by Wong et al with great interest.1 Assembling 7040 ...

Background Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the most lethal cancers due to its aggressive biology and ...

Tissue epithelia maintain their lineage identity under normal conditions but occasionally undergo ‘reprogramming’ into ...

A systematic study of the distribution of Paneth cells in disease of the small and large intestine is described. In disease of the small intestine and appendix there is usually a fall in the number of ...

Background: Many patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) are asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis. However, because most studies of asymptomatic PBC have been small and from tertiary centres, ...

Objective Vitamin D and the vitamin D receptor (VDR) appear to be important immunological regulators of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Defective autophagy has also been implicated in IBD, where ...

Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, University of Bologna, Italy Objective: Existing endoscopy-based data on gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) in the general population are ...

Correspondence to Professor Shiv Kumar Sarin, Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi 110070, India; shivsarin{at}gmail.com Objectives Beta-blockers and endoscopic ...