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Cause of common chronic diarrhea revealed in new research
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A common type of chronic diarrhoea may be caused by a hormone deficiency, according to new research published in the November issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. The author ...
Researchers find high-dose therapy for liver disease not effective
Aug 28, 2009 |
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A national team of researchers led by scientists at Mayo Clinic has found that a common treatment for primary sclerosing cholangitis, a chronic liver disease, is not helpful for patients, according to a study published this ...
Researchers find a new role for a 'Foxy Old Gene'
Aug 01, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that a protein called FOXA2 controls genes that maintain the proper level of bile in the liver. FOXA2 may become the focus for ...
'2-faced' Bioacids Put a New Face on Carbon Nanotube Self-Assembly
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Nanotubes, the tiny honeycomb cylinders of carbon atoms only a few nanometers wide, are perhaps the signature material of modern engineering research, but actually trying to organize the atomic scale rods ...
Stronger material for filling dental cavities has ingredients from human body
May 20, 2009 |
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Scientists in Canada and China are reporting development of a new dental filling material that substitutes natural ingredients from the human body for controversial ingredients in existing “composite,” or ...
Toxic bile damages the liver
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Heidelberg University Hospital have discovered a new genetic disease that can lead to severe liver damage. Because a protective component of the bile is missing, the liver cells are exposed to the toxic ...
New pathology tests double sensitivity to detect bile duct and pancreatic cancers
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Pancreatic cancer and bile duct cancer are difficult to diagnose and often fatal because they are discovered in the advanced stages of the disease. Researchers have developed new tests that double the ability to detect bile ...
Are tumors causing stricture of bile duct always malignant?
Feb 22, 2008 |
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The benign biliary tract tumor is rarely found in clinical practice. One case of bile duct adenomyoma was recently reported in the January 28 issue of the World Journal of Gastroenterology. This paper cited studies on how ...
What relates to the short-term effectiveness of biliary drainage?
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Biliary drainage is performed as a palliative treatment of hilar cholangiocarcinoma. The reduction of serum bilirubin is usually the hallmark of successful biliary drainage. However, some patients may have persistent jaundice ...
How to effectively avoid many common complications and liver damage in bile duct exploration?
Mar 13, 2008 |
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Micro-wound operation is becoming the trend in surgery in the 21st century and laparoscopic surgery is regarded as an important component of micro-wound surgery.
Scientists link immune system's natural killer cells to infant liver disease
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Scientists have linked an overactive response by one of the immune system's key weapons against infection - natural killer, or NK, cells - to the onset of biliary atresia in infants, a disease where blocked ...
How to differentiate benign from malignant bile duct strictures?
Sep 09, 2008 |
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The differentiation of benign and malignant strictures is difficult. Recently, a group of clinical specialists in Netherlands attempted to find possible criteria for differentiation of malignant from benign bile duct strictures. ...
New technique improves outcome for living donor liver transplants
Mar 18, 2008 |
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The University of Alberta Hospital (UAH) is one of only a few centers in Canada that perform living donor liver transplantation, a surgical procedure developed in the late 1980s that expands the organ donor pool. About 80 ...
Serum bile acid profiling for inflammatory bowel disease characterization
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Based on serum bank material, BA profiling was applied in IBD patients and healthy controls which showed that most but not all BA species were decreased to a different extent in CD and UC. BA decreases were highly pronounced ...
Transplanting human gut bugs into mice helps understanding of metabolic system
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May 22, 2007 |
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Bugs found in the guts of humans, which play an important part in people's metabolic makeup, have been transplanted into mice to further understanding of the human and animal metabolic system, reveals a new study in the journal ...
