Constipation - What diagnostic tests are used? Most people with constipation do not need extensive testing and can be treated with changes in diet and exercise. For example, in young people with mild symptoms, a medical history and physical examination may be all the doctor needs to suggest suc...
According to this view, the viscerosensory system functions like a sense organ, which, in addition to regulating visceral organs, carries information to the higher brain centers and affects behavior (Ádám 1983). Later, the “extrahomeostatic” view and terminology have been eliminated, and the...
(though certainly not from the traditional Chinese medicine point of view) no one quite knows how or why this is true. From the Western viewpoint, it may be that acupuncture affects the nervous system by stimulating the release of endorphins, naturally produced chemicals in the body that block...
Some evidence supports a primarily inflammatory mechanism that affects the intestinal mucosa locally and possibly systemically [97]. Nevertheless, contradictory findings have emerged from a large number of studies that have concentrated on particular cell types, cytokines, or pathogen recognition receptors....
- mostly affects macrophages - also induces transcription of more lipocortin -> which inhibits arachidonic acid pathway - decrease lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, basophils -> due to efflux from blood to lymph and causes apoptosis - increases neutrophils, erythrocytes, platelets -> efflux from bo...
IBS affects about10 to 15 percentof the population and is one of the most common conditions a gastroenterologist will see. And yet it has an image problem, with a lingering perception that it’s more of nuisance than a real illness, and caused purely by psychological issues. ...