2 Department of Gastroenterology, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cheltenham General Hospital, Cheltenham, UK 3 Department of Gastroenterology, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation ...

Objective An international meeting was organised to develop consensus on (1) the landmarks to define the gastro-oesophageal junction (GOJ), (2) the occurrence and pathophysiological significance of ...

Objective Patients with increased PD-L1 + host cells in tumours are more potent to benefit from antiprogrammed death-1/programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) treatment, but the underlying mechanism is ...

1 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA 2 Division of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA Correspondence to: Dr E V ...

Correspondence to Professor Mark J Manary, Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA; manary{at}kids.wustl.edu Objective We hypothesised that an alternative RUTF ...

Professor J P Galmiche, Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine, CRI INSERM 95-08, CHU, Hôtel Dieu, Place A Ricordeau, 44035 Nantes cedex 01, France. Email:galmiche{at}easynet.fr BACKGROUND/AIM ...

Cirrhotic portal hypertension is characterised by development of the decompensating events of ascites, encephalopathy, portal hypertensive bleeding and hepatorenal syndrome, which arise in a setting ...

Correspondence to Professor Jacques J G H M Bergman, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Amsterdam UMC Location AMC, Amsterdam 1105 AZ, The Netherlands; j.j.bergman{at}amsterdamumc.nl Despite important ...

Background and aim: The importance of the hepatocyte ploidisation pattern to the control of cell proliferation and differentiation has been well established. However, there are no data that have ...

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 ...

BACKGROUND Topical nitrates lower anal sphincter pressure and heal anal fissures, but a majority of patients experience headache. The internal anal sphincter has a calcium dependent mechanism to ...

Background and aims The gastric epithelium undergoes continuous turnover. Corpus epithelial stem cells located in the gastric isthmus serve as a source of tissue self-renewal. We recently identified ...