The glycaemic index (GI) is a physiological measure of a food's potential to increase postprandial blood glucose, as compared to the effect produced by food taken as reference, such as glucose or white bread. Currently researchers and consumers are interested in low GI foods, since their consumption is associated with better weight control and reduced risk of incidence of chronic diseases, like...

Functional dyspepsia (FD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are common gastrointestinal (GI) diseases; however, there is frequent overlap between FD and IBS patients. Emerging evidence links the activation of corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) receptors with stress-related alterations of gastric and colonic motor function. Therefore, we investigated the effect of peripheral CRF peptide and w...

BACKGROUND Obesity and overweight affect more than half of the US population and are associated with a number of diseases. Rimonabant, a cannabinoid receptor 1 blocker in the endocannabinoid (EC) system, was indicated in Europe for the treatment of obesity and overweight patients with associated risk factors but withdrawn on Jan, 2009 because of side effects. Many studies have reported the effe...

INTRODUCTION Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) increases risks for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Low glycaemic index (GI) diets improve cardio-metabolic outcomes in insulin-resistant individuals. We examined the feasibility of lowering GI through GI-based-education among Asian post-GDM women. METHODS A 3-month investigation was carried out on 60 Malaysian women with a mean ag...

There has been an ample interest in delivery of therapeutic molecules using live cells. Oral delivery has been stipulated as best way to deliver live cells to humans for therapy. Colon, in particular, is a part of gastrointestinal (GI) tract that has been proposed to be an oral targeted site. The main objective of these oral therapy procedures is to deliver live cells not only to treat diseases...

Recent studies suggest that migraine may be associated with gastrointestinal (GI) disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), inflammatory bowel syndrome, and celiac disease. Here, an overview of the associations between migraine and GI disorders is presented, as well as possible mechanistic links and clinical implications. People who regularly experience GI symptoms have a higher prev...

Skin manifestations have always been alarming to the patient and often warrant complete clinical evaluation. A thorough understanding of relationship between gastrointestinal (GI) disorders skin diseases can alert clinician an underlying occult GI disorder. The aim study was review cutaneous changes in patients with co-existent, masked observe pathophysiology such lesions. This a retrospective,...

The use of software-controlled gastrointestinal (GI) stimulators to regulate gastric activity promises to revolutionize treatment of GI-related diseases. Because this software area is relatively young, it is difficult to propose a concrete and detailed realization of a product line in GI. However, a comprehensive analysis of the domain will identify the main requirements and problems, which sho...

gastrointestinal (gi) diseases affect a large number of people all over the world. uncontrolled acid secretion and occurrence of gastric ulcers are common disorders of gi tract which pose serious problems to human health. many synthetic drugs have been used to treat gi disorders but a definite cure has not been discovered so far and the available medications cause several side effects. nigella ...

We formulate a control problem for GI/GI/N+GI queue, whose objective is to trade off the long-run average operational costs with server utilization costs. To solve problem, we consider an asymptotic regime in which arrival rate and number of servers grow large. The solution associated fluid motivates that non-idling service disciplines are not general optimal, unless some arrivals turned away. ...