1 Dietetics, Guys and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTFT), London, UK 2 Upper GI Surgery, Guys and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTFT), London, UK Introduction Weight loss is a predictor of ...

Objective Developing a small animal model that accurately delineates the natural history of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and immunopathophysiology is necessary to clarify the mechanisms of ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Wouter J den Hollander, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands; w.j.denhollander{at}gmail.com Objective ...

Objective Dietary fibres are essential for maintaining microbial diversity and the gut microbiota can modulate host physiology by metabolising the fibres. Here, we investigated whether the soluble ...

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 ...

Objective Microscopic colitis (MC) is a common cause of chronic diarrhoea, often with additional symptoms. No validated instruments exist to assess disease activity in MC, making it difficult to ...

Objective Patients with renal failure suffer from symptoms caused by uraemic toxins, possibly of gut microbial origin, as deduced from studies in animals. The aim of the study is to characterise ...

Registre Bourguignon des Cancers Digestifs (INSERM EPI 106), Faculté de Medecine, BP 87900, 21079 Dijon, France Correspondence to: C Faivre-Finn, Registre Bourguignon des Cancers Digestifs (INSERM EPI ...

Correspondence to: Dr S A Riley Department of Gastroenterology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield S5 7AU, UK; stuart.rileysth.nhs.uk Oesophageal dilators or bougies ...

Correspondence to Professor Dominik Bettenworth, Department of Medicine B, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital of Münster, Münster D-48149, Germany; ...

Objective The microbiome contributes to the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) but the relative contribution of different lifestyle and environmental factors to the compositional ...