Chapter 13. Diseases of the Gastrointestinal System Chapter 14. Bone, Muscle, and Skeletal Disease Chapter 15. Viral Diseases of Common Marmosets Chapter 16. Bacterial Diseases Chapter 17. Parasitic Diseases Ch
less ventilation and poor management system can predispose to disease. Fomites such as water and feed troughs, as well as bedding can also transmit disease for a short time, but do not remain infectious for long periods. Goats form an integral part of animal production in most rural and urba...
Crohn’s disease:Crohn's disease is an inflammatory disease of the digestive tract that affects approximately half a million Americans. It is a type ofinflammatory bowel disease(IBD). It is most commonly found in the small intestine, but it can affect any part of the digestive tract. The th...
Inflammatory bowel diseaseColon cancer"Nutrition" is the term used in this chapter to characterize how food nourishes the body and influences health. Nutrition encompasses how food is consumed, digested, absorbed, and, also, how the waste products of digestion are eliminated. The gastrointestinal (...
The cause of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is unknown, but it is thought to be the result of a defective immune system. In IBD, the immune system responds incorrectly to environmental triggers, which results in inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. There also seems to be a genetic co...
l-Tryptophan (Trp) metabolism through the kynurenine pathway (KP) is involved in the regulation of immunity, neuronal function and intestinal homeostasis. Imbalances in Trp metabolism in disorders ranging from cancer to neurodegenerative disease have stimulated interest in therapeutically targeting the KP,...
Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract that together are usually referred to as idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease (IIBD). The word "idiopathic" means "of unknown cause," but the currently accepted theory of the cause of these diseases postulates...
Imaging the spectrum of biliary tract disease The common hepatic duct (CHD) is nearly always visualized coursing through the porta hepatis at ultrasound or CT imaging (Fig. 4). It is thin walled (pencil-line thin) and at CT may show mild contrast enhancement. The upper limit of its diamet...
Chapter 3 Common Pancreatic Disease 3.1 Pancreatitis Pancreatitis is an inflammatory disease of the pancreas characterized by acute and chronic condition as well as varying duration and severity. Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a severe abdominal inflammation, characterized by parenchymal edema, necrosis with ...
To assess the extent of the genetic sharing across nine immune-mediated diseases we apply genomic structural equation modelling to GWAS data from European populations. We identify three disease groups: gastrointestinal tract diseases, rheumatic and systemic diseases, and allergic diseases. Although loci ...