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Irritable bowel syndrome: Is it "irritable brain" or "irritable bowel"? [PDF]
ABSTRACTIrritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has been recognized as one of the most common and best studied disorders among the group of functional gastrointestinal disorders. It is a functional bowel disorder in which abdominal pain or discomfort is associated with defecation or a change in bowel habit.
Padhy, Susanta Kumar +3 more
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Planarian toxicity fluorescent assay: a rapid and cheap pre-screening tool for potential skin irritants [PDF]
Here we report a new planarian (Dugesia lugubris) fluorescent assay as a rapid and cheap pre-screening tool to predict strong skin irritants. Our aim was to provide a simple and cost-effective in vivo method that avoided use of higher vertebrates ...
Lau, Wing Man +3 more
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PID1 is associated to a respiratory endotype related to occupational exposures to irritants
International audienceBackground: Studying associations between genes and asthma endotypes and interactions with environment could help to identify new susceptibility genes.
Nicole, Le Moual +10 more
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Household use of irritants and sprayed cleaning products and asthma endotypes
International audienceCleaning products are often considered as irritants, but those in spray form contain perfumes which may be sensitizers.We aimed to evaluate the hypotheses of non-immunological and immunological mechanisms, by which irritant and ...
Le Moual, Nicole +8 more
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Sensitivity to environmental irritants and quality of life in COPD
Ewa Ternesten-Hasséus, Sven Larsson, Eva MillqvistDepartment of Internal Medicine/Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, SwedenAbstract: It is a common clinical experience that patients
Larsson S +4 more
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Asthma is a complex entity and one of the most common disorders in the world, affecting much of the workforce [1]. Asthma prevalence in children and adults has shown an increasing trend in the last decades [2], [3], which makes this disorder a major public health concern.
Lidia, Casas, Benoit, Nemery
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Irritable bowel, irritable body or irritable brain?
Summary points The irritable bowel syndrome affects about 20% of adults in the industrialised world The condition is a disturbance of gastrointestinal function of unknown cause, but abnormalities of intestinal motility and visceral sensation are found in some patients Symptoms of the irritable bowel syndrome are often associated with extraintestinal
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The irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is an enigmatic and variable constellation of symptoms accounting for 20 to 30 percent of patients referred to a gastroenterologist who devotes much of his time proving that they do not have a more serious disease. Were it not for the IBS, fewer physicians would be required and the diagnosis of organic gut disorders ...
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Irritants, Irritancy and Irritant Induced Asthma
An irritant represents a non-corrosive chemical that causes a reversible non-immunologic inflammatory reaction after direct contact with the skin, eyes, nose and/or respiratory system. There are numerous reactions to irritants including change in spirometry, elevated exhaled breath levels of nitric oxide, enhancement of the response to allergen ...
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We have recently shown that certain mild irritants caused the increase in fluid volume in the rat stomach. The present study was conducted to investigate 1) whether standing fluid in the gastric cavity can prevent gastric mucosal injury caused by 0.6 N ...
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