High-quality data remains scarce in terms of optimal management strategies in the elderly inflammatory bowel disease(IBD)population.Indeed,available trials have been mostly retrospective,of small sample size,likely ow...
Supported by Merit Review grants BX001155 from the Department of Veterans Affairs,Office of Research and Development(Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development)to Kharbanda KK
Alcoholic liver disease(ALD)and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD)are serious health problems worldwide.These two diseases have similar pathological spectra,ranging from simple steatosis to hepatitis to cirrhosi...
Severe alcoholic hepatitis(AH)is an acute form of alcohol induced liver disease with a poor prognosis that is seen in the patients who consume large quantities of alcohol.The diagnosis of AH is based on the appropriat...
Supported by Italian Ministry of Health,No.44/GR-2010-2300447
In spite of the introduction in therapy of highly effective biological agents,glucocorticoids(GCs)are still employed to induce remission in moderate to severe inflammatory bowel diseases(IBD),but considerable inter-in...
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation, No. 81072914;Major Project Foundation of National Science and Technology, No. 2010ZX9102-204;Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Grant for Military Organization, No. 10ZYZ255
AIM: To investigate the efficacy and safety of combined antiviral and immunosuppressant therapy in adult hepatitis B virus-associated glomerulonephritis (HBVGN) patients. METHODS: A computerized literature search was ...
AIM: TO investigate the role of a-fetoprotein (AFP), a cancer-associated fetal glycoprotein, in glucocorticoidinduced precocious maturation in rat colon. METHODS: Colons from suckling Sprague-Dawley rats were used...
Glucocorticosteroids have been used as the only treatment for a long time which significantly reduced the mortality of the patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis.The efficacy of transplantation has been recently add...
Natural and synthetic glucocorticoids (GCs) are widely employed in a number of inflammatory, autoimmune and neoplastic diseases, and, despite the introduction of novel therapies, remain the first-line treatment for in...
Supported by grants from the National Science Council No.NSC 93-2314-B-002-006, Taiwan, and grants from National Taiwan University Hospital 91-N006
AIM: To determine how glucocorticoids (GCs) may affect the growth and chemosensitivity of common carcinoma cells. METHODS: The effect of dexamethasone (DEX) on growth and chemosensitivity was assessed in 14 carc...