In order to characterize the demographic and clinical profile of patients with digestive manifestations of Chagas' disease, the medical records were reviewed of patients (n = 377) currently attended at Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto with positive serologic reaction for Chagas' disease and admitted from January 2002 to March 2003. Median age was 67 years and 210...

Beneficial effects of a sodium butyrate source on growth performance, intestinal bacterial communities, digestive enzymes, immune responses and disease resistance in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Inflammatory bowel disease is an immune related disorder in which the intestines are chronically or intermittently inflamed. A synonym for inflammatory bowel disease that is abbreviated the same way is ‘irritable bowel disease’. Affected dogs may be presented with a history of vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss or a combination of these signs. There is a great deal of variation in the severity, du...

William Harvey published De Motu Cordis in 1628 and the De Generatione Animalium in 1651, two of the greatest books of observation and experiment ever written. During many of the active intervening years he was dissecting the abdomen, lecturing on digestion, and planning to write a treatise on nutrition. In his Lumleian lectures he constantly directed his listeners to the practical aspects of t...

1. Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Digestive Disease Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Associate Professor of Anatomical and Clinical Pathology, Department of Pat...

Xenopus kinesin-like protein 2 (TPX2) is a microtubule-associated protein that plays an important role in spindle assembly and dynamics. However, the clinical and prognostic value of TPX2 in the digestive system cancers remains unclear. The objective of this review was to evaluate the association of TPX2 expression with disease-free survival (DFS), overall survival (OS), and clinicopathological...

 Probiotic is considered as a remedy to solve disease problem in shrimp aquaculture. Shrimp body and environment bacterial flora are recommended as reliable source for extracting of beneficial bacteria. Therefore, 5000 pieces of post larvae of Penaeus monodon were distributed equally in 4 tanks in probiotic and antibiotic free condition up to juvenile. Then microbiological samples from digestiv...

1 Fellow of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Children’s Medical Center Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Assistant Professor, Pediatric Unit of Digestive Disease Research Center, Children’s Medical Center Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 Associate Professor, Pediatric Unit of Digestive Disease Research Center, Children’s Medical Center Hos...

An important way to keep transgenic and mutant lines of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, a model system for e.g. genetic functions, in laboratories is via culturing systems. Here we report a disease of C. intestinalis observed in an inland culturing system. The disease, called 'long feces syndrome,' is expressed in affected animals by the following characteristic symptoms of the digestive syste...