At least 250 million people worldwide are chronically infected with HBV, a small hepatotropic DNA virus that replicates through reverse transcription. Chronic infection greatly increases the risk for ...

The effects of sodium butyrate and sodium bromo-octanoate (an inhibitor of beta oxidation) on colonic mucus glycoprotein (mucin) synthesis have been assessed using tissue from colonic resection ...

Correspondence to Brian B Scott, Department of Medicine, Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln LN2 5QY, UK; drbbscott{at}aol.com Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) occurs in 2–5% of adult men and postmenopausal ...

Correspondence to Dr Xiaowei Tang, Department of Gastroenterology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China; solitude5834{at}hotmail.com We read with great interest the ...

Introduction Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome/Hypermobile Spectrum Disorder (hEDS/HSD) is a non-inflammatory connective tissue disorder associated with foregut symptoms, such as dyspepsia, 1 which ...

Correspondence to Professor Changqing Yang, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 389 XinCun Road, Shanghai 200065, China; ...

7 Clinical & Translational Research Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA 8 Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at the University of California San ...

Objective Diverticulitis is a common disease with a substantial clinical and economic burden. Besides dietary fibre, the role of other foods in the prevention of diverticulitis is underexplored.

Objective Globally, gastric cancer incidence shows remarkable international variation and demonstrates distinct characteristics by the two major topographical subsites, cardia (CGC) and non-cardia ...

Correspondence to Jun Yu, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Institute of Digestive Disease, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong; ...

2 National Institute of Diagnostics and Vaccine Development in Infectious Diseases, School of Life Science & School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China Objective This study aimed to ...

Objective Investigating the effect of ferroptosis in the tumour microenvironment to identify combinatory therapy for liver cancer treatment. Design Glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPx4), which is considered ...