3. Digestive System Diseases 1) the Digestive Tract Diseases

Diseases of the Digestive System

By J. W. Farquhar, M.D., F.R.C.P.E. (Pp. 28; figs. 2. 5s). Edinburgh and London: S. & S. Livingstone, 1970. THIS little book of 27 pages adequately covers what parents of diabetic children need to know to enable them to manage their child's disability successfully. However, urine testing four times daily would seem to be a standard of perfection beyond reach and counting the total number of uri...

Rare diseases of the digestive system

1Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA; 2Tongji University School of Medicine Shanghai, China; 3University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany; 4University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX, USA; 5David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; 6Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA; 7Depart...

Digestive Diseases and Diabetes

diabetes: Not only is every digestive organ potentially affected by diabetes, but the liver and exocrine pancreas may also have a modulating if not causal role in the development of diabetes. Physiological abnormalities associated with diabetes have been described in every part of the digestive tract where measurements can be made. This chapter focuses on the relationships between diabetes and ...

Hydrogen Sulfide in Physiology and Diseases of the Digestive Tract

Hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) is a Janus-faced molecule. On one hand, several toxic functions have been attributed to H₂S and exposure to high levels of this gas is extremely hazardous to health. On the other hand, H₂S delivery based clinical therapies are being developed to combat inflammation, visceral pain, oxidative stress related tissue injury, thrombosis and cancer. Since its discovery, H₂S has ...

Diseases of the Digestive Canal