OBJECTIVE Cow's milk allergy has different presentations in children and can cause functional bowel symptoms such as chronic constipation. The aims of this study were to investigate the role of cow's milk allergy as a cause of chronic constipation and effect of cow's milk free diet (CMFD) on its treatment in children. METHODS We performed a randomized clinical study comparing CMFD with cow's ...

Corrigendum Corrigendum to “Stimulus-driven modulation of motor-evoked potentials during observation of others' pain” [NeuroImage 32 (2006) 316–324] Alessio Avenanti, Ilaria Minio-Paluello, Ilaria Bufalari, Salvatore M. Aglioti ⁎ Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Via dei Marsi 78, I-00185 Rome, Italy Centro Ricerche Neuropsicologia, IRCCS Fondazione Santa...

Marco Leonetti,1,2,* Claudio Conti,3 and Cefe López4,† 1Institute of Chemical and Physical Processes, Italian National Research Council, UOS Roma Kerberos, Universitá La Sapienza, P. le A. Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy 2Center for Life Nano Science at Sapienza, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Viale Regina Elena, 291-00161 Rome, Italy 3Department of Physics, University Sapienza, P. le Aldo Moro 5...

conclusions there was no significant lower recurrence rate of constipation with peg and lactulose combination therapy over peg alone. therefore, changing treatment from lactulose plus peg to peg alone would result in better compliance of patients for long-term therapy and would be cost effective. results the response rate to treatment was 70% in group i and 87% in group ii (p value 0.003). recu...

A. Lavagnini*, Anna M. Sempreviva and C. Transerici, Istituto di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e del Clima, CNR, Sezione di Roma, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, I-00133 Rome, Italy C. Accadia, M. Casaioli and S. Mariani, Agenzia per la Protezione dell’Ambiente e per i Servizi Tecnici, Via Curtatone 3, I-00100 Rome, Italy A. Speranza, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Camerino, Via ...

By J. BEC, L. B IFERALE, G. BOFFETTA, A. CELANI, M. CENCINI, A. LANOTTE, S. MUSACCHIO AND F. TOSCHI CNRS Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, B.P. 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France Department of Physics and INFN, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Roma, Italy Department of Physics and INFN, University of Torino, Via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125, Torino, Italy CNRS, INL...

BACKGROUND Case-control studies are vital for understanding the pathophysiology of gastrointestinal disease. While the definition of disease is clear, the definition of healthy control is not. This is particularly relevant for functional bowel diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). In this study, a systematic review formed the basis for a prospective study evaluating the effectiveness...