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Nutrition and the gastrointestinal tract [PDF]

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care, 2015
In this year’s issue, we again have a high-calibre collection of topical reviews. Gracie and Ford commence with an assessment of the role of symbiotics (i.e. probiotics and prebiotics given together) in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.
Correia, M. Isabel T.D., Forbes, Alastair   +1 more
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Incidence of upper extremity deep vein thrombosis in the retrosternal reconstruction after esophagectomy

BMC Surgery, 2022
Background Upper extremity deep vein thrombosis (UEDVT) is relatively rare but cannot be negligible because it can cause fatal complications. Although it is reported that the occurrence rate of UEDVT has increased due to central venous catheter (CVC ...
Leo Yamada, Motonobu Saito, Hiroya Suzuki, Shotaro Mochizuki, Eisei Endo, Koji Kase, Misato Ito, Hiroshi Nakano, Naoto Yamauchi, Takuro Matsumoto, Akinao Kaneta, Yasuyuki Kanke, Hisashi Onozawa, Hiroyuki Hanayama, Hirokazu Okayama, Shotaro Fujita, Wataru Sakamoto, Yohei Watanabe, Suguru Hayase, Zenichiro Saze, Tomoyuki Momma, Shinji Ohki, Koji Kono   +22 more
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Systemic inflammation score as a preoperative prognostic factor for patients with pT2–T4 resectable gastric cancer: a retrospective study

BMC Surgery, 2023
Background Systemic inflammation has been reported to be associated with cancer progression and metastasis. Systemic inflammation score (SIS), calculated from preoperative serum albumin level and lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio, has been shown to be a novel
Takuro Matsumoto, Shinji Ohki, Akinao Kaneta, Akira Matsuishi, Yuya Maruyama, Leo Yamada, Takeshi Tada, Hiroyuki Hanayama, Yohei Watanabe, Suguru Hayase, Hirokazu Okayama, Wataru Sakamoto, Tomoyuki Momma, Zenichiro Saze, Koji Kono   +14 more
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Functional benefits of the double flap technique after proximal gastrectomy for gastric cancer

BMC Surgery, 2021
Background Proximal gastrectomy is a widely performed procedure that has become more common with an increasing number of proximal gastric cancer cases.
Zenichiro Saze, Koji Kase, Hiroshi Nakano, Naoto Yamauchi, Akinao Kaneta, Yohei Watanabe, Hiroyuki Hanayama, Suguru Hayase, Tomoyuki Momma, Koji Kono   +9 more
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Long-term Outcomes of Lower Rectal Cancer Patients Treated with Total Mesorectal Excision and Lateral Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection after Preoperative Radiotherapy or Chemoradiotherapy

Journal of the Anus, Rectum and Colon, 2021
Objectives: The standard strategy for advanced rectal cancer (RC) is preoperative short-course radiotherapy (SCRT)/chemoradiotherapy (CRT) plus total mesorectal excision (TME) in Western countries; however, the survival benefit of adding chemotherapy to ...
Wataru Sakamoto, Shinji Ohki, Hisashi Onozawa, Hirokazu Okayama, Hisahito Endo, Shotaro Fujita, Motonobu Saito, Zenichiro Saze, Tomoyuki Momma, Seiichi Takenoshita, Koji Kono   +10 more
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The effects of T-DXd on the expression of HLA class I and chemokines CXCL9/10/11 in HER2-overexpressing gastric cancer cells

Scientific Reports, 2021
Trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd), a HER2-targeting antibody–drug conjugate with a topoisomerase I inhibitor deruxtecan (DXd), exhibits an excellent anti-tumor effect in previously treated HER2-positive tumors.
Shotaro Nakajima, Kosaku Mimura, Takuro Matsumoto, Aung Kyi Thar Min, Misato Ito, Hiroshi Nakano, Prajwal Neupane, Yasuyuki Kanke, Hirokazu Okayama, Motonobu Saito, Tomoyuki Momma, Yohei Watanabe, Hiroyuki Hanayama, Suguru Hayase, Zenichiro Saze, Koji Kono   +15 more
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PD-L1 overexpression in EBV-positive gastric cancer is caused by unique genomic or epigenomic mechanisms

Scientific Reports, 2021
Epstein-Barr virus-positive gastric cancer [EBV (+) GC] is a distinct GC subtype with unique genetic and epigenetic aberrations. Here, we examined resected GC samples and publicly available microarray data and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database to ...
Hiroshi Nakano, Motonobu Saito, Shotaro Nakajima, Katsuharu Saito, Yuko Nakayama, Koji Kase, Leo Yamada, Yasuyuki Kanke, Hiroyuki Hanayama, Hisashi Onozawa, Hirokazu Okayama, Shotaro Fujita, Wataru Sakamoto, Zenichiro Saze, Tomoyuki Momma, Kosaku Mimura, Shinji Ohki, Akiteru Goto, Koji Kono   +18 more
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Metformin and the gastrointestinal tract [PDF]

Diabetologia, 2016
Metformin is an effective agent with a good safety profile that is widely used as a first-line treatment for type 2 diabetes, yet its mechanisms of action and variability in terms of efficacy and side effects remain poorly understood. Although the liver is recognised as a major site of metformin pharmacodynamics, recent evidence also implicates the gut
McCreight, Laura J., Bailey, Clifford J., Pearson, Ewan R.   +2 more
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Microbiota in the Gastrointestinal Tract [PDF]

Medical Sciences, 2018
Gut microbiota are permanent residents of humans with the highest concentrations being found in human colon. Humans get the first contact with bacteria at delivery, and microbiota are subject of permanent change during the life. The individual microbiota pattern is highly variable and varying environmental conditions, e.g., diets, antigen exposure ...
Walburga Dieterich, Monic Schink, Yurdagül Zopf   +2 more
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The correlation between the margin of resection and prognosis in esophagogastric junction adenocarcinoma

World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2023
Adenocarcinoma of the gastroesophageal junction (AEG) has become increasingly common in Western and Asian populations. Surgical resection is the mainstay of treatment for AEG; however, determining the distance from the upper edge of the tumor to the ...
Tao Pang, Mingming Nie, Kai Yin
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