William JonesHCA Memorial Health University Medical Center, Savannah, GA;Kathleen HumkeyHCA Memorial Health University Medical Center, Savannah, GA;Charles DuckworthCenter for Digestive and Liver Health, Savannah, GA.Wolters KluwerThe American Journal of Gastroenterology...
Most people who have had more than cursory experience in the husbandry of nonhuman primate colonies will agree that parasitism is one of the most common disease entities that affects these animals. Numerous protozoal and metazoal genera have been describ
Selenium (Se) is an essential micronutrient for humans and animals (Fordyce 2013; Mao et al. 2016; Thomson 2004). It has numerous important biological functions, serving as the active center of selenoenzymes and selenoproteins, playing an integral role in energy metabolism and gene expression, ...
·Effect of Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin on Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism after Laparoscopic Surgery for Digestive Malignancies: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial Page :e20 Naoki Tanaka, Tamotsu Obitsu, Atsushi Oyama, Tatsuya Ueno, Toshiki Rikiyama, Michiaki Unno, Takeshi Naitoh Plan ·...
The widespread prevalence of fungi in the environment and food chain makes them hazardous for humans. Mycotoxins contamination of agricultural produce is a serious threat to human health [1]. The ingestion of mycotoxins contaminated food, results acute and chronic toxicity to the humans and animals....
within balance. Many younger teens try to do all the things, and find themselves cranky and exhausted. Protection is important for this age, but so is interest in the real world, in different cultures, in different ideas – otherwise the teen remains the center of his or her own universe ...
I had to put Briscoe down today. This sentence conveys none of what actually happened, and makes me feel terrible. Technically I didn’t have to do anything. I could have let them treat her ongoing chronic pain and increasingly frequent digestive issues, maybe put her on an anti-anxiety me...
While diet has become a focus to enhance human health, the attention on what types of diets yield the best outcomes is paramount from the perspective of consumers. The “Mediterranean or Eastern” diets versus a “Western diet” have gained popularity and promise not only for the management of...
Infectious diseases remain a crucial problem in global public health and are one of the leading causes of death worldwide [1]. According to the literature reports, these ailments are responsible for 17 million deaths per year worldwide [2,3]. Treatment of microbial infections is becoming a cha...
Different mechanisms are suggested to be responsible for this. The modulation of the TLR4/dectin1-MAPK and Syk-PKC-NFκB signaling in immune cells is reported. In patients with digestive cancer, lentinan removed the dominant state of Th2 which restored Th1-Th2 lymphocyte (Tregs) balance [368,...