Diseases that affect the digestive tract are referred to as Gastrointestinal ailments. (GI) ailments contribute substantially healthcare costs all over world. <em>Ocimum gratissimum</em>, commonly known African basil is a wellknown medicinal herb with wide therapeutic potential. In most West homes, it employed home remedy for treating GI such diarrhoea, colitis, stomach ulcers, bloa...

conclusions following a simple seven-part rule of healthy stomach will result in balanced gi function and a healthy body. properly consumption of recommended tpm herbal medicines could reinforce the stomach and a healthy gi system through preventive mechanisms. evidence acquisition a wide-ranging search in main tpm books and web engines was performed to compare preventive care in gastrointestin...

Journal of Biomedical Therapy 2009 ) Vol. 3, No. 2 The mucous membranes of the GI tract also provide compartmentalization, protecting the relatively fragile, homeodynamic internal milieu from the relatively harsh environment of the intestinal lumen. Mucosal membranes include many different structures and cells with unique roles in maintaining the physical, chemical, and immunological barrier fu...

probiotics are live cultures of microbes; often lactic acid bacteria, but also some other species, which when fed to animals, improve their health and growth through altering the intestinal microbial balance. in the present research, healthy chickens’ gastrointestinal (gi) tracts were screened for the presence of lactic acid bacteria with probiotic properties. the probiotic properties of the is...

BACKGROUND Upper gastrointestinal (GI) diseases are common, but there is a paucity of data describing variations by ethnic group and so a lack of understanding of potential health inequalities. We studied the incidence of specific upper GI hospitalization and death by ethnicity in Scotland. METHODS Using the Scottish Health and Ethnicity Linkage Study, linking NHS hospitalizations and mortali...

The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is an endogenous signalling pathway involved in the control of several gastrointestinal (GI) functions at both peripheral and central levels. In recent years, it has become apparent that the ECS is pivotal in the regulation of GI motility, secretion and sensitivity, but endocannabinoids (ECs) are also involved in the regulation of intestinal inflammation and muc...

In Lewy body disease, Lewy pathology (LP: the accumulation of α-synuclein in neuronal perikarya and processes as Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites and dots, respectively) is observed in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Previous autopsy or biopsy studies of individuals with Lewy body diseases (LBDs) indicated that LP could be observed in the peripheral nerves of the gastrointestinal (GI) ...

INTRODUCTION A ccording to 2007 data from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 23.6 million people—7.8% of the US population have diabetes (1). Also, diabetes incurred an estimated expenditure of $174 billion in direct and indirect costs in 2007 (1). Part of this cost (estimated to be $22.9 billion in 2006) can be attributed to the treatment of diabetes-related ...

Ghrelin is a 28-amino-acid peptide that plays multiple roles in humans and other mammals. The functions of ghrelin include food intake regulation, gastrointestinal (GI) motility, and acid secretion by the GI tract. Many GI disorders involving infection, inflammation, and malignancy are also correlated with altered ghrelin production and secretion. Although suppressed ghrelin responses have alre...

BACKGROUND Although the associations of dietary glycemic index (GI) and dietary glycemic load (GL) with many chronic diseases have been examined in epidemiologic studies, information regarding the reproducibility and validity of these measures assessed with the use of food-frequency questionnaires (FFQs) is lacking. OBJECTIVE We examined the reproducibility and validity of dietary GI and diet...