Background Existing scales for assessing faecal incontinence have not been validated against clinical assessment, or with regard to reproducibility. They also fail to take into account faecal urgency, ...

1 Intestinal Disease Research Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada, and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Regensburg, Germany 2 Department of Molecular ...

Professor G P vanBerge-Henegouwen, Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Utrecht, PO Box 85500, Utrecht, The Netherlands. If you wish to reuse any or ...

Department of Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases and Gastroenterology, UCLA Medical Centre and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Los Angeles, California, USA Dr T Lembo, Beth Israel ...

Professor M Campieri, Medical and Gastroenterological Clinic, University of Bologna, Policlinico S Orsola, Via Massarenti, 9, I-40138 Bologna, Italy. Background—The use of corticosteroids in active ...

Dr A K Burroughs, Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG, UK. andrew.burroughs{at}talk21.com If you wish ...

a Digestive Disease Research Center/Neuroenteric Biology Group, Department of Medicine, UCLA and West LA VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA, b Section of Gastroenterology (111G-1), Tucson ...

1 Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China 2 Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai First People's Hospital, Shanghai ...

Dr J A Williams, Department of Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, 7744 Medical Science Building II, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0622, USA. jawillms{at}umich.edu Arginine induced acute ...

The effects of loperamide on net solute and water absorption, and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and cholera toxin-induced secretion were studied in the rat jejunum using an in vivo steady-state perfusion ...