AIM
Population-based assessment of noncardiac chest pain (NCCP) is lacking. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence, psychosocial factors and health seeking behaviour of NCCP in southern… (More)
BACKGROUND
Safety is a concern that must be addressed prior to any clinical use of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-based lentiviral vectors in human patients. Unfortunately, efforts to examine the… (More)
OBJECTIVES:Helicobacter pylori is a carcinogen; gastric carcinoma involves a multistep process from chronic gastritis to atrophy, intestinal metaplasia, and dysplasia. The aims of this study were to… (More)
AIM
To determine whether symptomatic response to lansoprazole predicts abnormal acid reflux in endoscopy-negative patients with non-cardiac chest pain.
METHODS
Patients who complained of chest… (More)
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of metronidazole resistance (MtzR) and clarithromycin resistance (ClaR) on the eradication rate for omeprazole, clarithromycin, and metronidazole… (More)
OBJECTIVES: Helicobacter pylori is an identified carcinogen for gastric cancer, however, the underlying mechanisms remain to be defined. In this review, we sought to elucidate the role of apoptosis… (More)
OBJECTIVE:The association between Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection and diabetes mellitus is controversial. We aimed to determine the prevalence of H. pylori infection in patients with… (More)
Previous studies on the association between interleukin-1 (IL-1) genetic polymorphisms and the risk of gastric cancer have produced conflicting results. The purpose of this study was to examine the… (More)
BACKGROUND AND AIMS
Reactivation of survivin expression is involved in carcinogenesis and angiogenesis in colon cancer. Previous in vitro studies showed that mutation of the cysteine residue at… (More)
BACKGROUND AND AIMS
FHL2 (4-1/2 LIM protein 2) is an adapter and modifier in protein interactions that is expressed mainly in the heart and ovary. It functions in a cell type- or promoter-specific… (More)