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Large Intestine

Known as: Large Bowel, Intestinum crassum, Intestine, Large 
The long, tube-like organ that is connected to the small intestine at one end and the anus at the other. The large intestine has four parts: cecum… 
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Abdominal CavityAppendixAscending colonBenign neoplasm of cecum

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Intestines

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Review
2000
Review
2000
Protein degradation in the large intestine: relevance to colorectal cancer.
Colorectal cancer is the second most common form of cancer death in Western countries. Diet has been implicated in the aetiology… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Trends in cancer incidence in Kyadondo County, Uganda, 1960–1997
Incidence rates of different cancers have been calculated for the population of Kyadondo County (Kampala, Uganda) for four time… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
Probiotics and prebiotics: can regulating the activities of intestinal bacteria benefit health?
The colonic microflora is important to health. The growth and metabolism of the many individual bacterial species inhabiting the… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Weaning and the weanling diet influence the villous height and crypt depth in the small intestine of pigs and alter the concentrations of short-chain fatty acids in the large intestine and blood.
Effects of weaning pigs to different diets have been investigated in terms of the changes in the small intestinal morphology, and… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Effect of soluble or partly soluble dietary fibres supplementation on absorption and balance of calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc in healthy young men
Objectives: This study is aimed at investigating the effect of feeding a soluble or partly soluble fibre rich-diet on the… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
Role of bile acids in colorectal carcinogenesis.
Review
1991
Review
1991
Toward the primary prevention of cancer.
This is the threshold of an era when many of the most prevalent human cancers can, to a significant extent, be prevented through… 
Review
1989
Review
1989
Trichuris and trichuriasis in humans.
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Small “flat adenoma” of the large bowel with special reference to its clinicopathologic features
Thirty-three small “flat adenomas,” not more than 1 cm in diameter, were collected from surgically and colonoscopically removed… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
The Polyp-cancer Sequence in the Large Bowel
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