Discover how Parkinson's disease begins in the gut, not the brain. Learn the early digestive warning signs that appear years ...

Gastric emptying of isotopically labelled solid meals was studied in normal human subjects and in patients at different intervals after truncal vagotomy and Heineke-Mikulicz pyloroplasty. One to four ...

Faecal fat excretion was measured on a metabolic ward in 16 patients with duodenal ulcer before operation, and in patients who were in good health more than one year after truncal vagotomy and ...

Description The goal of the trial was to evaluate treatment with famotidine compared with placebo among patients taking low-dose aspirin. Hypothesis Famotidine would be more effective in ...

Background: Some people who suffer an upper gastrointestinal bleed or perforation die. The mortality rate was estimated at 12% in studies published before 1997, but a systematic survey of more ...

The liver is the site of first pass metabolism, detoxifying and metabolizing blood arriving from the hepatic portal vein and hepatic artery. It is made up of multiple cell types, including macrophages ...

The microbiota-gut-brain axis is a bidirectional signaling mechanism between the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system. The complexity of the intestinal ecosystem is extraordinary; it ...