Correspondence to Dr Markus Casper, Department of Medicine II, Saarland University Medical Center, Saarland University, 66421 Homburg, Germany; markus.casper{at}uks.eu Conventional white-light ...

1 Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai Second Medical University, Renji Hospital, Shanghai 200001, P R China 2 Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated No 1 Hospital, Jiangxi Province, ...

Objective High-fat diet (HFD)-induced metabolic disorders can lead to impaired sperm production. We aim to investigate if HFD-induced gut microbiota dysbiosis can functionally influence ...

Correspondence to Professor Peter R Gibson, Department of Gastroenterology, Monash University and Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia; Peter.gibson{at}monash.edu Reasons behind such ...

Objective A decade of microbiome studies has linked IBD to an alteration in the gut microbial community of genetically predisposed subjects. However, existing profiles of gut microbiome dysbiosis in ...

1 Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital Boston and ...

The GI tract is colonised by trillions of bacteria in a complex community collectively referred to as the gut microbiota. This metabolically active ‘foreign’ body contributes to host metabolism and ...

Objective We performed a meta-analysis of observational studies to quantify the magnitude of the association between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and risk of extrahepatic cancers. Design ...

Objective Over half of patients with IBS have either diarrhoea (IBS-D) or a mixed stool pattern (IBS-M). The relative efficacy of licenced pharmacological therapies is unclear in the absence of ...

The goal of this review is to describe barrier function of the intestine, the structure of the tight junction, methods to evaluate intestinal permeability, and most importantly the relevance of ...

3 Department of Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, China Correspondence to Yi Li, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC, 's Gravendijkwal 230 ...

Background Intestinal fibrosis resulting in stricture formation and obstruction in Crohn’s disease (CD) and increased wall stiffness leading to symptoms in ulcerative colitis (UC) is among the largest ...