Gastrointestinal infection due to cytomegalovirus occurs frequently in liver transplant recipients. Upper gastrointestinal cytomegalovirus infection is associated with subjective complaints of nausea, a sense of abdominal fullness, and occasionally emesis and/or dysphagia. In order to determine whether these symptoms reflect a disruption of the normal motility of the stomach, the following stud...

The present study investigated whether neurons in the lateral hypothalamus (LH) play a role in the occurrence of gastric ulcerations induced by cold-water restraint. The first experiment indicated that bilateral N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) lesions of the LH (20μg/1μl per side) reduced the amount of gastric ulceration induced by cold-water restraint. In the second experiment, the NMDA antagonist...

The records of all upper digestive endoscopies performed in one year in the Clinical Measurement Department of a teaching hospital serving a population of 250 000 were reviewed; 25% of patients had oesophagitis, which was usually associated with other significant findings such as peptic ulcer and gastroduodenal erosions. Only about 1 in 6 patients with oesophagitis had an endoscopically identif...

Recent reports of cytomegalovirus associated colonic and oesophageal ulceration in immunosuppressed patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, have focused attention on the possibility that viral infections may in some cases be the initial insult which leads in susceptible subjects to gastrointestinal ulceration. In this case report we describe how systemic primary infection with ...

persian oak (quercus brantii lindl., the fagaceae family) is a medicinal plant which seed flour is used to treat inflammatory and gastric ulcers by the tribes in southwestern iran. the current study was done to evaluate the effect of hydro-alcoholic extract of q. brantii seed flour for treatment of gastric ulcers induced by ethanol in wistar rats. the hydro-alcoholic extract of q. brantii was t...

Momordica charantia (MC) is popular for its medicinal uses especially treating diabetic-related complications. However, the antiulcer activity of essential oil derived from seeds has not been systematically studied. This study aims to evaluate gastroprotective activities seed MC induced by hydrochloride acid/ethanol (HCl/EtOH) and indomethacin pylorus-ligation model. Gastric ulceration was oral...

Multiple different lymphomas in a single person are very rare. The author herein reports the case of a 69- year-old Japanese woman with double gastrointestinal lymphoma. The patient presented with epigastralgia. Endoscopic examination revealed erosions and elevation of the gastric body and a large ulcerated tumor of the terminal ileum. Biopsies were obtained from these lesions. The gastric lesi...

Gastric mucosa of aging individuals exhibits increased susceptibility to injury and delayed healing. Our previous studies in young rats showed that healing of mucosal injury depends on and is critically dependent on VEGF and angiogenesis. Since angiogenesis in aging gastric mucosa has not been examined before, in this study we examined the extent to which angiogenesis is impaired in gastric muc...

Chronic gastritis is a very common disorder which is commonly caused by Helicobacter pylori. Histopathological examination is the mainstay of the diagnosis. We evaluated 300 gastric antral biopsies using revised Sydney system and concluded that it helps to analyse gastric biopsies in a very comprehensive manner. It was seen that H. pylori, chronic inflammatory infiltrate, neutrophilic infiltrat...

The effect of taurine on gastric hemorrhage and mucosal erosion in the brain ischemia (BI) is unknown. The aim of the research was to study the involvement of gastric oxidative stress in hemorrhagic erosion produced in BI rats. The protective effect of taurine on this erosion model was evaluated. Male Wistar rats were deprived of food for 24 h. Under chloral hydrate -anesthesia, bilateral carot...