Testing for Gluten-Related Disorders in Clinical Practice: The Role of Serology in Managing the Spectrum of Gluten Sensitivity by David Armstrong, Andrew C Don-Wauchope, Elena F Verdu

“…However, our understanding of the pathogenesis and spectrum of gluten sensitivity has improved, and gluten-sensitive irritable bowel syndrome patients are increasingly being recognized. …”
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Bone Loss Triggered by the Cytokine Network in Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases by Dulshara Sachini Amarasekara, Jiyeon Yu, Jaerang Rho

“…Bone loss and fracture risk are implicated in inflammatory autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, inflammatory bowel disease, and systemic lupus erythematosus. …”
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Late-Onset Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder Results in Jejunal Stricture Managed with Endoscopic Dilation by Steven Park, John Miller, Janice Cheong, Asad Ullah, Lawrence Saubermann, Arthur Decross

“…We present a rare diagnosis of small bowel stricture caused by healed lymphomatous ulcers in a patient with orthotopic heart transplantation and PTLD diagnosed 25 years after initial transplantation. …”
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Recirculation of digestive enzymes by G. F. Korot'ko

“…Digestive glands exosecrete two pools of hydrolases: postprandially de novo synthesized and recreted from blood circulation, to which they are transported by three mechanisms – endosecretion of glandular cells, resorption of hydrolases from ductal system of the glands and the small bowel. Enzymes, being switched off from circulation by recretion, are involved in gastro-intestinal digestion and carry out a signal role in modulation of secretory, motor and absorptive functions of the gut. …”
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Isolated Kaposi Sarcoma of the Tonsil: A Case Report and Review of the Scientific Literature by Barbara Pittore, Carlo Loris Pelagatti, Francesco Deiana, Francesco Ortu, Elena Maricosu, Sergio Cossu, Giovanni Sotgiu

“…It usually affects the skin and oral mucosa; however, it can also sometimes affect the lungs, the liver, the stomach, the bowel, and lymph nodes. Several body sites may be affected simultaneously. …”
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Hemophilia A Complicated by Ulcerative Colitis by Maxim Olivier, Mario Madruga, S. J. Carlan, Li Ge

“…Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that is reported to have a decreased frequency of occurrence in subjects with coagulation disorders. …”
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Personalization of thiopurine therapy: Current recommendations and future perspectives by Urbančič Dunja, Pasha Flaka, Šmid Alenka, Mlinarič-Raščan Irena

“…Despite great therapeutic advances in the field of biologics, small synthetic molecules such as thiopurines, including azathioprine, mercaptopurine, and thioguanine, remain an important therapeutic pillar in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, other autoimmune disorders, and cancer. …”
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Recent Advances in ADAM17 Research: A Promising Target for Cancer and Inflammation by Marcia L. Moss, Dmitry Minond

“…ADAM17 inhibitors have broad therapeutic potential, with properties ranging from tumor immunosurveillance and overcoming drug and radiation resistance in cancer, as treatments for cardiac hypertrophy and inflammatory conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis. This review focuses on substrates and inhibitors identified more recently for ADAM17 and their role in cancer and inflammation.…”
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Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections due to Asymptomatic Colonic Diverticulitis by Evangelos Falidas, Georgios Anyfantakis, Stavros Boutzouvis, Michail Kyriakopoulos, Stavros Mathioulakis, Konstantinos Vlachos, Constantinos Villias

“…The authors report a case of colovesical fistula due to asymptomatic diverticulitis, and they emphasize the importance of deeply investigate recurrent urinary tract infection without any bowel symptoms. They also briefly review the literature.…”
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Exercise and Crohn’s Disease: Speculations on Potential Benefits by Victor Ng, Wanda Millard, Constance Lebrun, John Howard

“…Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that affects nearly one million people in the United States and Canada. …”
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An Unusual Cause of Intestinal Obstruction in a Young Adult Patient: Inflammatory Fibroid Polyp by Meryem Rais, Hafsa Chahdi, Mohammed Elfahssi, Abderrahmane Albouzidi, Mohamed Oukabli

“…Although inflammatory fibroid polyp is one of the rare conditions leading to intestinal obstruction in adults, it should be considered as a possible diagnosis in obstructive tumors of the small bowel causing intussusceptions. We present one case of inflammatory fibroid polyp as a rare cause of intussusception in a young adult patient.…”
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New rectum dose surface mapping methodology to identify rectal subregions associated with toxicities following prostate cancer radiotherapy by Artemis Bouzaki, Dylan Green, Marcel van Herk, Jane Shortall, Tanuj Puri, Sarah Kerns, David Azria, Marrie-Pierre Farcy-Jacquet, Jenny Chang-Claude, Ananya Choudhury, Alison Dunning, Maarten Lambrecht, Barbara Avuzzi, Dirk De Ruysscher, Petra Seibold, Elena Sperk, Christopher Talbot, Ana Vega, Liv Veldeman, Adam Webb, Barry Rosenstein, Catharine M. West, Eliana Gioscio, Tiziana Rancati, Eliana Vasquez Osorio, Alan McWilliam

“…Student’s t-test showed significance (p < 0.05) in the lower posterior for clinical-reported proctitis and patient-reported bowel urgency. Univariable CPHM identified a 3 % increased risk per Gy for clinician-reported proctitis and a 2 % increased risk per Gy for patient-reported bowel urgency in the lower posterior. …”
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Xi Lei San Attenuates Dextran Sulfate Sodium-Induced Colitis in Rats and TNF-α-Stimulated Colitis in CACO2 Cells: Involvement of the NLRP3 Inflammasome and Autophagy by Zhang Tao, Xiaoqing Zhou, Yan Zhang, Wenfeng Pu, Yi Yang, Fuxia Wei, Qian Zhou, Lin Zhang, Zhonghan Du, Ji Wu

“…Objective. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic nonspecific inflammatory bowel disease with an unclear etiology. …”
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Clinical observation of Baduanjin exercise on bed in relief of constipation among patients with acute myocardial infarction (床上八段锦改善急性心肌梗死患者便秘的效果观察)... by LI Fengyan (李丰艳), GONG Zhencui (宫振翠), SHI Yu (时玉)

“…To assess the constipation symptom and bowel sounds before intervention, 3 days and 7 days after intervention, and to compare the effect of intervention between two groups. …”
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Cardiovascular events observed among patients in the etrasimod clinical programme: an integrated safety analysis of patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis by Xiang Guo, Peter M Irving, Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, Séverine Vermeire, Joseph Wu, Irene Modesto, David T Rubin, Marla C Dubinsky, Andres J Yarur, Miguel Regueiro, Martina Goetsch, Krisztina Lazin, Guibao Gu, Aoibhinn McDonnell, Jesse Green, Alexis B Dalam

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Mendelian randomization studies of risk and protective factors for osteoporosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Wenhao Ji, Wenhao Ji, Bin Pan, Bin Pan, Xin Chen, Xin Chen, Zhaobai Lao, Zhaobai Lao, Wanlei Yang, Wanlei Yang, Yu Qian, Yu Qian

“…The combined findings from these 30 studies revealed that rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, sex hormone binding globulin, depression, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, primary biliary cholangitis and asthma are associated with increased risk of osteoporosis, while basal metabolic rate and gut microbiota (NB1n) serves as a protective factor. …”
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Regulation of electrolyte transport with IL-1β in rabbit distal colon by F. R. Homaidan, H. Desai, L. Zhao, G. Broutman, R. Burakoff

“…Interletrkin-1β levels are elevated in inflammatory bowel disease. In this study the mechanism by which interleukin-1β affects electrolyte transport in the rabbit distal colon, was investigated. …”
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Blowhole Colostomy for Clostridium difficile-Associated Toxic Megacolon by Jeroen Kerstens, Ian Diebels, Charles de Gheldere, Patrick Vanclooster

“…After presenting our case, we discuss the literature available on the subject to argue that the scarce evidence on the optimal surgical treatment for TM is primarily based on TM associated with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and that there might be a rationale for considering minimally invasive procedures like blowhole colostomy for CDI-associated TM.…”
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Histopathology of Infectious Colitis by Christina M. Surawicz

“…First, colonic mucosal biopsy can often reliably differentiate acute self limited colitis (ASLC). or infectious type colitis, from idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). In ASLC, crypt architecture is normal and the inflammatory infiltrate in the lamina propria predominantly acute, ie, polymorphonuclear cells. …”
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Toll-Like Receptor 2 as a Regulator of Oral Tolerance in the Gastrointestinal Tract by Matthew C. Tunis, Jean S. Marshall

“…Food allergy, other adverse immune responses to foods, inflammatory bowel disease, and eosinophilic esophagitis have become increasingly common in the last 30 years. …”
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