Background Gut bacteria have been implicated in a wide range of health conditions, yet their potential role in preventing and treating muscle-wasting disorders remains largely unexplored. Objective We ...
2 Departments of Biochemistry and Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Li Ka Shing Insitute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Objective Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection ...
An 82-year-old man with alcohol-related cirrhosis (Child-Pugh class B), complicated by portal hypertension and a history of partial gastrectomy with Billroth I reconstruction for duodenal ulcer ...
Objective Hepatitis E virus (HEV), one of the most common agent of acute hepatitis worldwide, is mainly transmitted enterically, via contaminated water for HEV genotypes 1 (HEV1) and HEV2, or by ...
Correspondence to Professor Giovanni Targher, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Verona Department of Medicine, Verona 37126, Italy; giovanni.targher{at}univr.it Non-alcoholic fatty liver ...
Background Enterically transmitted hepatitis viruses, such as hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis E virus (HEV), remain notable threats to public health. However, stable and reliable animal models ...
4 Affiliated Cancer Hospital and Institute of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China 5 Department of Etiology and Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research ...
Objective Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an aggressive malignancy with limited effective treatment options. An alternative strategy is to target cells, such as tumour-infiltrating macrophages, in ...
Background Our previous genome-wide association study (GWAS) identified that chromosome 1p36.22 locus contributes to the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Objective We aimed to identify the ...
3 School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Translational Research Institute, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia Correspondence to Dr Erin R Shanahan, Gastroenterology Research, Level 5, ...
The persistent absence of disease-modifying therapy for recurrent acute pancreatitis (RAP) and chronic pancreatitis (CP) represents one of the more conspicuous therapeutic gaps in gastroenterology.
Background Concomitant metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is prevalent in patients with chronic ...