Coffin, Benoit, Sophie Fossati, Bernard Flourié, Marc Lémann, Pauline Jouet, Claire Franchisseur, Raymond Jian, and Jean-Claude Rambaud. Regional effects of cholecystokinin octapeptide on colonic phasic and tonic motility in healthy humans. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 39): G767–G772, 1999.—The aim of this study was to assess in nine healthy subjects the effects of CCK octa...

Gillingham, Melanie B., Elizabeth M. Dahly, Hannah V. Carey, Melanee D. Clark, Karen R.. Kritsch, and Denise M. Ney. Differential jejunal and colonic adaptation due to resection and IGF-I in parenterally fed rats. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 278: G700–G709, 2000.— Patients with severe short-bowel syndrome (SBS) often require long-term total parenteral nutrition (TPN) to maintain the...

children that are half a year to 2 years old, but intestinal or colonic invagination is a rare disease in adults. Intussusception in adult patients represents 1% of patients with bowel obstruction and 5% of all intussusception. It is usually primary and benign in children intussusception and pneumatic or hydrostatic reduction of the intussusception is enough to treat the condition in 80% of the...

background: to determine the colon transit time (ctt) in patients complaining of functional constipation and to evaluate the correlation between abnormal transit times and the types of constipation and the correlation with age and sex. materials and methods: the signs and symptoms of 84 patients with infrequent or difficult defecation, 33 males and 51 females, with a median age of 33.7 were rec...

background: radiotherapy is one of the most important factors which results in negative effects on wound healing and increases anastomosis leakage. diverting loop ileostomy has been usually performed after colorectal anastomosis in cases of colorectal cancer with a history of neoadjuvant radiotherapy to decrease the chance of leakage. considering the side effects of diverting loop ileostomy, th...

background of the study: colorectal cancer (crc) which is the third most diagnosed cancer throughout the world is steadily rising in the asian countries with the incidence rates mimicking the western counterparts. the pre-neoplastic nature of the transitional mucosa (tm) adjoining crc lacks conclusive evidence so far. pertaining to this, the study of the mucus layer, the functional component of...

primary colorectal lymphoma (pcl) is a rare condition that accounts for a small percentage of all gastrointestinal (gi) malignancies. there are several reports in the literature regarding the most common features of pcl. however, primary lymphoma in the rectosigmoid junction has been rarely reported. our case was a 67-year-old male who presented with non-specific symptoms of bowel obstruction w...

the aim of this study was to test the therapeutic efficacy of sodium alginate in a rat model of trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (tnbs)-induced inflammatory bowel disease. this experiment was carried out using 77 sprague-dawley rats which were divided into six groups; normal, control, prophylactic, therapeutic and two experimental groups. rats were sacrificed 1, 2, 3 and 6 weeks after colitis indu...