Chronic HBV infection remains a major global health burden, with current antiviral therapies effectively suppressing viral ...

We read with great interest the article of Ratziu and colleagues, who evaluated the potential of thrombospondin-2 (TSP2), insulin-like growth factor binding protein 7, CD163 and growth differentiation ...

Background Endometriosis is a debilitating gynaecological disorder with an elusive pathogenesis. While gut microbiota dysbiosis has been implicated, the causal role of gut-peritoneum microbial ...

Background Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection disproportionately affects people living with HIV, who are often excluded from functional cure studies. Objective This study investigates CD8+ T ...

Objective Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has proved to be an extremely effective treatment for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, and there is interest in its potential application ...

2 Utah-Inha DDS & Advanced Therapeutics Research Center, Incheon, Korea (the Republic of) Background Non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding (NVUGIB) remains a major cause of morbidity and ...

Objective MicroRNA (miR)-301a is known to be involved in the tumourigenesis and pathogenesis of several autoimmune diseases, but it remains unclear whether miR-301a is associated with the pathogenesis ...

Objective To estimate the cost-effectiveness of noncardia gastric adenocarcinoma (NCGA) screening strategies based on new biomarker and endoscopic technologies. Design Using an intestinal-type NCGA ...

Background The brain–gut axis is a key regulator of normal intestinal physiology; for example, psychological stress is linked to altered gut barrier function, development of food allergies and changes ...

Dr H Kondo, Department of Endoscopy and Gastrointestinal Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan.htkondoh{at}ncc.go.jp BACKGROUND In Japan, endoscopic ...

Recent studies have identified mucosal healing on endoscopy as a key prognostic parameter in the management of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), thus highlighting the role of endoscopy for monitoring ...

1 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3 Department ...