Functional Analysis of Monkeypox and Interrelationship between Monkeypox and COVID-19 by Bioinformatic Analysis by Eun Jung Sohn

“…KEGG analysis of 212 DEGs of GSE36854 and GSE21001 for monkeypox infection showed involvement of monkeypox in COVID-19, cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction, inflammatory bowel disease, atherosclerosis, TNF signaling, and T cell receptor signaling. …”
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Conditioned medium derived from mesenchymal stem cells and spinal cord injury: A review of the current therapeutic capacities by Gholam Reza Kaka, Farrokh Modarresi

“…Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a debilitating condition of the nervous system that imposes considerable challenges for subjects, such as bladder and bowel incontinence and infections. The standard therapeutic strategy is methylprednisolone utilization accompanied by surgical decompression. …”
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Estimation of salivary IL-6 and calprotectin in patients with ulcerative colitis by Fadhel A. Abdullah, Maha A. Mahmood

“… Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) it includes two-condition Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) the prolonged inflammation may cause invasion of the multiple layers of the intestinal walls result in GIT damage. …”
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Magnetic Resonance Enterography: The Test of Choice in Diagnosing Intestinal “Zebras” by Anjali S. Kumar, Jasna Coralic, Reid Vegeler, Kirthi Kolli, John Liang, Allison Estep, Allen P. Chudzinski, James D. McFadden

“…Small bowel tumors and other rare intestinal disorders are often exceedingly difficult to identify. …”
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Anti-inflammatory activity of Alpinia officinarum hance on rat colon inflammation and tissue damage in DSS induced acute and chronic colitis models by Vijayabharathi Rajendiran, Vidhya Natarajan, Sivasithamparam Niranjali Devaraj

“…Keywords: Alpinia officinarum, Antioxidants, Inflammation, Dextran sulfate sodium (DSS), Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD)…”
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Case report: A co-existing case of ulcerative colitis and dysferlinopathy in a male patient by Limin Li, Qiong Yan, Mingming Deng, Muhan Lü, Tiejun Zhou, Xiaolin Zhong

“…Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at risk of developing malnutrition, severe dystrophic muscle weakness, and muscle atrophy. …”
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The Role of IL-33 in Gut Mucosal Inflammation by Luca Pastorelli, Carlo De Salvo, Maurizio Vecchi, Theresa T. Pizarro

“…In 2010, four different research groups consistently described the upregulation of IL-33 in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Animal models of IBD were subsequently utilized in order to mechanistically determine the precise role of IL-33 in chronic intestinal inflammation, without, however, reaching conclusive evidence demonstrating whether IL-33 is pathogenic or protective. …”
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Inflammation, impaired motor function and visceral hypersensitivity: the main mechanisms of functional disorders of the gastrointestinal tract (materials of the Expert Council and... by V. T. Ivashkin, I. V. Maev, A. S. Trukhmanov, A. A. Sheptulin, T. L. Lapina, V. I. Simanenkov, K. A. Sokolov

“…The pathogenesis of the most common functional diseases of the gastrointestinal tract — functional dyspepsia (FD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is multifactorial and includes motor disorders of various parts of the gastrointestinal tract, visceral hypersensitivity, changes in the intestinal microbiome, impairment of the permeability of the protective barrier, low-grade inflammation of the gastrointestinal mucosa, etc. …”
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An Unusual Extremely Distant Noncommunicating Uterine Horn with Myoma and Adenomyosis Treated with Laparoscopic Hemihysterectomy by Michele Morelli, Roberta Venturella, Rita Mocciaro, Daniela Lico, Fulvio Zullo

“…Moreover, omentum and bowel were attached to fundus of right horn and thick adhesions fixed it to rectum and right pelvic wall. …”
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Dystrophic Adipocytes Mimicking Metastatic Signet Ring Cell Adenocarcinoma: A Diagnostic Pitfall in a Cachectic Patient by Xin Zhang, Jennifer J. Findeis-Hosey

“…The patient had presented with a large bowel obstruction, a mass extending between the pancreas and colon, and radiographic concern for carcinomatosis. …”
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The Impact of PPARγ Genetic Variants on IBD Susceptibility and IBD Disease Course by Jessica Mwinyi, Christa Grete-Wenger, Jyrki J. Eloranta, Gerd A. Kullak-Ublick

“…We aimed at determining the occurring PPARγ SNPs, at predicting the haplotypes, and at determining the frequency outcome in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients in comparison with healthy controls. …”
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A Challenging Case of Acute Mercury Toxicity by Ali Nayfeh, Thamer Kassim, Noor Addasi, Faysal Alghoula, Christopher Holewinski, Zachary Depew

“…The patient had recurrent bowel movements, and serial radiographs showed interval decrease of mercury in the descending colon with interval increase in the cecum and ascending colon. …”
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Duodenal Obstruction during Pregnancy by Mansooreh Haghiri, Sedigheh Borna, Kamran Hessami, Ali Sharifi, Seyed Mohsen Ahmadi Tafti, Mahrooz Malek, Nasim Pourdamghan, Sedigheh Hantoushzadeh, Abolfazl Shirdel Abdolmaleki, Maasoumeh Saleh

“…The experience gained from this case was to consider all possibilities (such as small bowel obstruction) and evaluate them in a pregnant patient to consider other causes of nausea, vomiting, and abnormal LFTs in a pregnant patient.…”
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Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy as a Primary Operation for Morbid Obesity: Experience with 200 Patients by Paolo Gentileschi

“…Six major post-operative complications occurred (3%): two gastric stump leaks (1%), three major bleedings (1.5%) and 1 (0.5%) bowel obstruction. One case of mortality was registered (0.5%). …”
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Literature Review Comparing Laparoscopic and Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomies in a Pediatric Population by Madelen Lantz, Helena Hultin Larsson, Einar Arnbjörnsson

“…The number of serious gastrointestinal fistulas to colon or small bowel was 0% and .27%, respectively, P<.05. Conclusions. …”
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Laparotomy for Advanced Abdominal Ectopic Pregnancy by Dereje Tegene, Sultan Nesha, Befikadu Gizaw, Tadele Befikadu

“…Placenta was removed after releasing adhesion from the bowel and omentum. She had smooth postoperative course and discharged on her 5th postoperative day. …”
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Regulated Spatial Distribution of Cyclooxygenases and Lipoxygenases in Crohn's Ulcer by Yao Mao, Jian'an Ren, Jieshou Li

“…Arachidonic acid metabolism actively participates in the initiation, climaxing, and resolution phases of inflammation, and its close connection with inflammatory bowel diseases has been only recently discovered. …”
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What Would Make Getting Colorectal Cancer Screening Easier? Perspectives from Screeners and Nonscreeners by Gilda G. Medina, Amy McQueen, Anthony J. Greisinger, L. Kay Bartholomew, Sally W. Vernon

“…However, early-screeners predominantly cited dislike of test attributes such as bowel preparation, whereas nonscreeners cited concerns regarding finances and work and family responsibilities. …”
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Autoimmune Gastrointestinal Paralysis: Failure of Conventional Treatment without Immunomodulation by Craig Weinkauf, Sean McPhillips, Robert Krouse, Ira Levine

“…After an extensive work-up that included laparoscopy and celiotomy with bowel resection, we diagnosed what we refer to as Autoimmune Paraneoplastic Chronic Intestinal Pseudoobstruction (AP-CIPO). …”
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Duodenal Histoplasmosis Presenting with Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in an AIDS Patient by Michael A. Spinner, Heather N. Paulin, C. William Wester

“…Biopsy of the lesions revealed small bowel mucosa with granulomatous inflammation and macrophages with small intracellular yeasts consistent with disseminated histoplasmosis. …”
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