The wall of the gut responds to an impressive array of signals originating in the lumen, including nutrient and non-nutrient chemicals, mechanical factors, and micro-organisms. The idea that the gut wall exhibits luminal chemo-sensitivity is implied in the original discovery of secretin by Bayliss and Starling, and has become an integral part of models of neurohumoral control of gastrointestina...

Este texto plantea un retorno a la obra de Sigmund Freud concibiendo terapia y cura analítica como una práctica antihermenéutica performativa, antes que arqueológica. Tras breve repaso evolución técnica analítica, desarrollando los términos imagen, deseo superficie, se pretende mostrar radicalidad dimensión filosófica del psicoanálisis su alcance emancipador más allá consulta, no solo afecta al...

A five-month-old male Shiraze cat was referred to the Mansoura Veterinary Teaching Hospital of Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt for evaluation of a 5-days history of swelling in the caudal ventral abdomen after trauma, persistent straining and inability to urinate. Clinical examination, abdominal ultrasonography and exploratory laparotomy revealed herniation and herniorraphy was attempted. ...

OBJECTIVES To study the out come and benefits of an early surgical intervention in postoperative entero-cutaneous fistulae. METHODS It's a retrospective descriptive study conducted at department of surgery LUMHS from Jan 2001 to November 2008. Two hundred and thirteen (213) post-operative fistulae are included as study subjects while those due to inflammatory bowel diseases, road traffic acci...

The concept of an entero-insular axis has its origins in the 19th Century, after the observation that greater amounts of glucose could be given orally rather than intravenously without producing glycosuria. However, convincing evidence that the gut is able to modify the insulin response to an oral glucose load was produced by two groups of investigators in the 1960s, who showed that oral glucos...