Our aim was to determine whether a relationship exists between the number of mucosal mast cells in the gut and visceral hypersensitivity. Method: Eighteen patients with diarrhea predominant ...

The role of enteric glial cells in regulating intestinal mucosal functions at steady state has been a matter of debate in recent ... The authors then focused on investigation of Paneth cells in the ...

In this study, we showed that mucosal mast cells were significantly increased in the terminal ileum, ascending colon and rectum of patients with D-IBS compared with controls. Additionally ...

For each mouse, we determined the size of 3–15 adenomas located in the last 5 cm of the terminal ileum and calculated mean values. Histology and immunohistochemistry. We used longitudinal cross ...

Introduction Terminal ileum (TI) intubation at colonoscopy may be useful in the investigation of patients ... Methods We aim to establish the yield of TI biopsies in a single unit. All TI biopsies ...