Objective Bone marrow-derived myeloid cells accumulate in the liver as monocytes and macrophages during the progression of obesity-related non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) to steatohepatitis ...

Isotopic bile salt studies have been performed in 13 cholecystectomy patients and 10 matched controls using labelled taurocholate and deoxycholic acid. Cholecystectomy subjects have reduced pools of ...

Correspondence to Professor Jacques J G H M Bergman, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Amsterdam UMC Location AMC, Amsterdam 1105 AZ, The Netherlands; j.j.bergman{at}amsterdamumc.nl Despite important ...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has rapidly become the most common chronic liver disease globally and is currently estimated to affect up to 38% of the global adult population. NAFLD is a ...

1 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA 2 Division of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA Correspondence to: Dr E V ...

Objective Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a multifactorial immune-mediated inflammatory disease of the intestine, comprising Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. By characterising metabolites ...

Objective Hepatic stellate cells (HSC) transdifferentiation into myofibroblasts is central to fibrogenesis. Epigenetic mechanisms, including histone and DNA methylation, play a key role in this ...

Division of Hepatology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Saga Medical School, Saga, Japan Dr I Ozaki, Division of Hepatology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Saga ...

a Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study Group, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, UK, b Gastroenterology Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK Dr R N Allan, Queen Elizabeth ...

1 Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2 Department of Gastroenterology, Ruijing Hospital North, School of Medicine, ...

1 Dalhousie Inflammation Group and Department of Pediatrics, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 2 Dalhousie Inflammation Group and ...

Correspondence to Florine Kastelein, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus Medical Center, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands; f.kastelein{at}erasmusmc.nl Objective ...