Disease relevance of Gastroenteritis

• The frequency of adverse reactions (dermatitis, myositis, and gastroenteritis) to cromolyn sodium in asthmatic patients was 2% (B/375) [1].
• INTERPRETATION: The TTSS is a central virulence factor of diarrhoea-causing bacteria such as shigella, salmonella, and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, which cause gastroenteritis by invading or intimately interacting with intestinal epithelial cells [2].
• The spike protein VP4 is a key component of the membrane penetration apparatus of rotavirus, a nonenveloped virus that causes childhood gastroenteritis [3].
• Reactive arthritis (ReA) is an inflammatory arthritis triggered by infection, usually urethritis or gastroenteritis, and is strongly associated with the MHC class I antigen HLA-B27 [4].
• Five addition volunteers who developed Norwalk virus gastroenteritis underwent serial studies of gastric secretion of hydrochloric acid, pepsin, and intrinsic factor [5].

Psychiatry related information on Gastroenteritis

• Panic disorder with agoraphobia in reaction to gastroenteritis [6].

High impact information on Gastroenteritis

• Eosinophil infiltration into the esophagus is observed in diverse diseases including gastroesophageal reflux and allergic gastroenteritis, but the processes involved are largely unknown [7].
• Enteroaggregative Escherichia coll and outbreaks of gastroenteritis in UK [8].
• In the gastric biopsy specimens, extracellular MBP deposition scores were significantly increased in patients with eosinophilic gastroenteritis compared with controls even though eosinophil infiltration scores did not differ significantly at this site [9].
• Bismuth subsalicylate therapy of viral gastroenteritis [10].
• The delay in expression of maximal lactase activity might help to explain the vulnerability of this enzyme to acute mucosal insult such as occurs in viral gastroenteritis [11].

Chemical compound and disease context of Gastroenteritis

• Jejunal adenylate cyclase activity in human subjects during viral gastroenteritis [12].
• Nine volunteers developed symptoms of gastroenteritis. gastric biopsies from those with normal base line fundal and/or antral biopsies remained normal during and after clinical illness [13].
• Letter: Mercaptoethanol-sensitive antibody to reovirus-like agents in acute epidemic gastroenteritis [14].
• Norfloxacin was at least as effective as currently used agents in treating urinary tract infections, and, in limited studies, bacterial gastroenteritis, gonorrhea, bacterial prostatitis, and prevention of gram-negative bacillary infection in neutropenic patients [15].
• Serum nitrate was significantly elevated only in patients with infectious gastroenteritis (P < 0.001) [16].

Biological context of Gastroenteritis

• Tropism of human adenovirus type 5-based vectors in swine and their ability to protect against transmissible gastroenteritis coronavirus [17].
• Fluconazole pharmacokinetics were evaluated for 10 volunteers with AIDS who had no clinical evidence of gastroenteritis [18].
• The changes in human rotavirus electropherotypes, occurring during a period including two rotavirus gastroenteritis epidemics in 1976 and 1979 in relatively remote Central Australia, were determined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic analysis of the rotavirus genome ribonucleic acid [19].
• We conclude that ciprofloxacin when administered p.o. to patients with AIDS is well absorbed, as evidenced by excellent bioavailability and is not affected by gastrointestinal changes in the absence of infectious gastroenteritis and severe diarrhea [20].
• Mean levels of CICs were significantly higher in patients with prolonged gastroenteritis than in those with histocompatibility leukocyte antigen B27-positive arthritis [21].

Anatomical context of Gastroenteritis

• Transepithelial signaling to neutrophils by salmonellae: a novel virulence mechanism for gastroenteritis [22].
• Quantitative studies of invasion of rabbit ileal mucosa by Salmonella typhimurium strains which differ in virulence in a model of gastroenteritis [23].
• Three transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE) virus-specific T helper (Th) cell hybridomas have been generated from virus-primed BALB/c mice, by fusion with the thymoma BW5147 [24].
• Our results support the hypothesis that serum DAO activity is a marker of the total mass of functional enterocytes, the decrease of which during gastroenteritis is reflected in a decrease of serum DAO activity values [25].
• Evidence for an abnormal profile of interleukin-4 (IL-4), IL-5, and gamma-interferon (gamma-IFN) in peripheral blood T cells from patients with allergic eosinophilic gastroenteritis [26].

Gene context of Gastroenteritis

• The IL-8 level in the CSF of patients with aseptic meningitis did not differ from that in the CSF of the patients with gastroenteritis (less than 30 pg/ml) [27].
• PATIENTS AND METHODS: In cases of HUS associated with verotoxin-producing E. coli (VTEC) infection, VTEC gastroenteritis without HUS and normal controls, we measured plasma concentrations of TF and tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) to evaluate their clinical significance [28].
• Tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-10 in viral and bacterial gastroenteritis in children [29].
• CONCLUSION: Serum TNF-alpha concentration may be a useful marker for distinguishing between viral and bacterial gastroenteritis [29].
• METHOD: We utilised SPR to detect hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) in reconstituted faecal samples and studied samples from patients with infectious gastroenteritis (n = 20) and normal controls (n = 10) [30].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Gastroenteritis

• CONCLUSIONS: Mini-dose glucagon rescue, using subcutaneous injections, is effective in managing children with type 1 diabetes during episodes of impending hypoglycemia due to gastroenteritis or poor oral intake of carbohydrate [31].
• Causes of low immunosuppression were: unknown (seven), poor compliance (three), posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease, (two), hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence (one), tuberculosis (one), gastroenteritis (one) [32].
• After oral rehydration, 38 patients with acute gastroenteritis were given orally a 100-ml solution containing 4 g (11.7 mmol/L) of lactulose and 0.8 g (4.4 mmol/L) of mannitol, and their recovery rate as shown in urine passed during the subsequent 5 h was measured [33].
• Cytopathic small round virus (Aichi strain), isolated from a patient with oyster-associated gastroenteritis, showed no reaction in the polymerase chain reaction method for enteroviruses or in the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the five serotypes of astroviruses [34].
• Small, round-structured viruses (SRSVs) detected from nonbacterial gastroenteritis outbreaks in Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture, Japan, during the period from 1977 to 1988 were tentatively classified into nine antigenic patterns from SRSV-1 (S-1) to SRSV-9 (S-9) by cross-immune electron microscopy (IEM) [35].

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