PURPOSE: Chronic radiation proctitis, a well described complication of pelvic radiation
therapy, can result in severe bleeding that is refractory to conventional treatment. Argon plasma …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Although the central processing of somatic pain has been
dealt with in numerous brain imaging studies, the neural correlates of visceral pain have …

OBJECTIVE: Reactive oxygen metabolites have been suggested to participate in the pathogenesis
of Crohn's disease, but the evidence supporting this contention in vivo is incomplete. …

The association of chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction with ophthalmoplegia has been
reported previously in visceral myopathies. We report a case of this association in which muscle …

Nouvelle édition revue, corrigée et augmentée, cette flore décrit les plantes à fleurs des
Antilles françaises ainsi que les Cycadaceae (préphanérogames). Elle est illustrée par plus de …

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of direct stimulation of the sympathetic
nerves on the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) in the anesthetized cat. Neither unilateral …

… Bohn, Benoit; Bonaz, Bruno; Gueddah, Nasser; Rolachon, Alain; Papillon, Emmanuel;
Bost, Richard; Fournet, Jacques … Correspondence and requests for reprints to Jacques …

Loss of heterozygosity for polymorphic markers flanking the multiple endocrine neoplasia type
1 (MEN-1) gene in parathyroid and pancreatic islet tumours from subjects with MEN-1 has …

The neural control of the ileocecal sphincter (ICS) is poorly understood. The purpose of this
study is to evaluate: (a) ICS and blood pressure responses to alpha- and beta-adrenergic …

Following a brief introduction (comprising a discussion of what defines weeds, their deleterious
impact, reasons for their success, their uses and their common/vernacular names), this …