Gastroenterology

Autonomously Controlled Magnetic Flexible Endoscope for Colon Exploration.

Prediction of Overall Survival and Novel Classification of Patients with Gastric Cancer Using the Survival Recurrent Network.

BACKGROUND: Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been applied to many prediction and classification problems, and could also be used to develop a prediction model of survival outcomes for cancer patients.

A Functional Signature Ontology (FUSION) screen detects an AMPK inhibitor with selective toxicity toward human colon tumor cells.

AMPK is a serine threonine kinase composed of a heterotrimer of a catalytic, kinase-containing α and regulatory β and γ subunits. Here we show that in...

Obesity as an independent predictive factor for pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant chemoradiation in rectal cancer.

PURPOSE: The predictive role of obesity on pathologic complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemoradiation (nCRT) in rectal cancer remains controv...

Impact of the off-clamp endoscopic robot-assisted simple enucleation (ERASE) of clinical T1 renal tumors on the postoperative renal function: Results from a matched-pair comparison.

PURPOSE: To evaluate the surgical and functional outcomes of a matched-paired series of on-clamp vs off-clamp endoscopic robot-assisted simple enuclea...

Spatial aggregation of holistically-nested convolutional neural networks for automated pancreas localization and segmentation.

Accurate and automatic organ segmentation from 3D radiological scans is an important yet challenging problem for medical image analysis. Specifically,...

A Systematic Machine Learning Based Approach for the Diagnosis of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Risk and Progression.

Prevention and diagnosis of NAFLD is an ongoing area of interest in the healthcare community. Screening is complicated by the fact that the accuracy o...

Application of artificial intelligence using a convolutional neural network for detecting gastric cancer in endoscopic images.

BACKGROUND: Image recognition using artificial intelligence with deep learning through convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has dramatically improved ...

Effects of Sub-lethal Concentrations of Silver Nanoparticles on a Simulated Intestinal Prokaryotic-Eukaryotic Interface.

Nanotechnology applications are expected to bring a range of benefits to the food sector, aiming to provide better quality and conservation. In this r...

Automated diagnosis of focal liver lesions using bidirectional empirical mode decomposition features.

Liver is the heaviest internal organ of the human body and performs many vital functions. Prolonged cirrhosis and fatty liver disease may lead to the ...

Carboxybetaine-modified succinylated chitosan-based beads encourage pancreatic β-cells (Min-6) to form islet-like spheroids under in vitro conditions.

In vitro, pancreatic β-cells tend to reduce their ability to aggregate into islets and lose insulin-producing ability, likely due to insufficient cell...

Pro-inflammatory cytokines after an episode of acute pancreatitis: associations with fasting gut hormone profile.

INTRODUCTION: Pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin (IL)-6, tumour necrosis factor (TNF)α, and monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1, are...

Inflammatory bowel disease patients experiencing a loss of response to infliximab regain long-term response after undergoing granulocyte/monocyte apheresis: A case series.

Up to 50% of patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn's disease (CD) experience a loss of response (LOR) to infliximab after an initial response...

Serum Vitamin D Levels in Treatment-naïve Chronic Hepatitis B Patients.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: According to the demographic health survey conducted in 2015, Egypt had 10% documented prevalence of anti-HBc positive pati...

α-glucosidase inhibitors isolated from L.

The aim of the study was to isolate digestive enzymes inhibitors from through a bioassay-guided fractionation approach. Repeated silica gel and sepha...

Cholesterol imprinted composite membranes for selective cholesterol recognition from intestinal mimicking solution.

Molecularly imprinted polymers which have been extensively investigated as selective adsorbents were constructed using a template molecule during the ...

Chemical findings and in vitro biological studies to uphold the use of Ficus exasperata Vahl leaf and stem bark.

Ficus exasperata Vahl, commonly known as sandpaper, is a terrestrial Afro-tropical tree used in popular medicine. Despite the existence of some works ...

Evaluation of a peroxygen-based disinfectant for inactivation of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus at low temperatures on metal surfaces.

Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) spread rapidly across the United States in part due to contaminated livestock trailers. The objective of this s...

Polyethylene Glycol for Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy.

Capsule endoscopy has been the first-line examination for small bowel diseases, yet its diagnostic yield is restricted by unsatisfactory bowel prepara...

Minimally invasive approach (robotic and laparoscopic) to biliary-enteric fistula secondary to cholecystectomy bile duct injury.

Spontaneous biliary-enteric fistula after laparoscopic cholecystectomy bile duct injury is an extremely rare entity. Y-en-Roux hepaticojejunostomy has...