Histopathology Unit, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Royal College of Surgeons, London. Diet is of fundamental importance in the healthy functioning of alimentary epithelium, or during the disease ...

Correspondence to: Professor J Dent Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and General Medicine, Level 7, North Wing, North Terrace, Royal Adelaide Hospital ...

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), which include ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD), are chronic conditions characterised by inflammation of the intestinal tract. Alterations in ...

2 Ipatimup – Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal 3 Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal ...

Correspondence to Dr Zhanju Liu, Department of Gastroenterology, The Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai 200072, China; [email protected]; and Dr Yingzi Cong, Department of ...

Conflict of interest statement.Professor Irvine shares ownership of the copyright, together with McMaster University, of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ). Modern medicine has had a ...

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 ...

1 Institute of Immunology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R.China 2 Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang ...

Bacterial infection is a frequent trigger of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), syndrome that could also increase the risk of infection. This investigation evaluated prevalence and characteristics ...

Correspondence to: Dr G J Gores Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First St SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA; gores.gregorymayo.edu ...

Objective The assessment of potentially confounding factors affecting colon microbiota composition is essential to the identification of robust microbiome based disease markers. Here, we investigate ...

9 Affiliated Cancer Hospital and Institute of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China Objective Metastasis is the major cause of cancer death. However, what types of heterogenous cancer cells ...