Drug delivery across the skin is used for several millennia to ease gastrointestinal (GI) ailments in Traditional Persian Medicine (TPM). TPM topical remedies are generally being applied on the stomach, lower abdomen, lower back and liver to alleviate GI illnesses such as dyspepsia, gastritis, GI ulcers, inflammatory bowel disease, intestinal worms and infections. The aim of the present study i...

In susceptible–exposed–infectious–recovered (SEIR) epidemic models, with the exponentially distributed duration of exposed/infectious statuses, mean generation interval (GI, time lag between infections a primary case and its secondary case) equals latent period (LP) plus infectious (IP). It was widely reported that GI for COVID-19 is as short 5 days. However, many works in top journals used lon...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) due to its varied presentations and multisystem involvement has become a major cause of mortality and morbidity encountered in practice of modern medicine. A large proportion of patients with HIV-AIDS present with a wide spectrum of gastrointestinal symptoms during the course of the disease 1 .Studies on...

upper gi endoscopy

background: in medicine, especially in pediatrics, it is necessary to perform regular epidemiologic studies in different geographic regions. this study was performed in nemazee hospital, shiraz, southern iran to determine the gastrointestinal (gi) disease spectrum, the mortality and also the rate of matching final diagnosis with the initial impression in pediatric gi ward. â  methods: of all th...

aim : the study aims to document the oral lesions in patients with uc. background : inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) is comprised of two chronic, tissue-destructive and clinical entities including crohn's disease (cd) and ulcerative colitis (uc), both of which are immunologically based. patients and methods : the population of the study includes fifty patients with uc, as the experimental group...

The digestibility and estimated glycemic indices (GI) of native (NWS), cross-linked (CLWS) and hydroxypropylated wheat starches (HPWS) were obtained by in vitro enzymatic hydrolysis. The resistant starch (RS) content and GI were found to be 6.59 and 93.13 for NWS, 7.57 and 92.20 for CLWS, and 13.15 and 89.04 for HPWS, respectively. The amounts of glucose release for CLWS were approximately 6–11...

xvi DIFFERENTIAL REGULATION OF MLC20 PHOSPHORYLATION IN TONIC AND PHASIC SMOOTH MUSCLES OF THE STOMACH By Othman A. Al-Shboul, Ph.D. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2011 Major Director: S.Murthy Karnam Professor, Department of Physiology Gastrointestinal (G...