AIM: To investigate the capability of multidetector CT (MDCT) to diagnose HCC-associated arterioportal shunt (APS).METHODS: Two hundred and eighty-two patients
AIM: To investigate the bile acid pool size after cholecystectomy whether or not correlated to the gastrointestinal migrating myoelectric complex (MMC) in guine
AIM: To assess the clinical characteristics of Helicobacterpylori(H pylori) negative duodenal ulcer.METHODS: Patients with an endoscopic diagnosis of duodenal u
AIM:To investigate whether induction of tolerance of mice to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was able to inhibit apoptotic reaction in terms of characteristic DNA frag
AIM: To clarify the effects of epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) on the platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-BBinduced proliferation and migration of pancreati
AIM: Postoperative gastrointestinal-tract motility is normally delayed. Early feeding after colorectal surgery has beenreposed recently, but late feeding is com