Bowel symptoms including diarrhoea can be produced when excess bile acids (BA) are
present in the colon. This condition, known as bile acid or bile salt malabsorption, has been …

Over the past 5 years, there has been a rapid resurgence of interest in vitamin D outside of
its traditional role in metabolic bone disease. Some nontraditional roles ascribed to vitamin …

Introduction Bile acid malabsorption (BAM) is a syndrome of chronic watery diarrhoea with
excess faecal bile acids. Disruption of the enterohepatic circulation of bile acids following …

We tested 310,605 SNPs for association in 778 individuals with celiac disease and 1,422
controls. Outside the HLA region, the most significant finding (rs13119723; P= 2.0× 10− 7) …

Our genome-wide association study of celiac disease previously identified risk variants in
the IL2–IL21 region. To identify additional risk variants, we genotyped 1,020 of the most …

Objective: The capsaicin receptor TRPV1 (transient receptor potential vanilloid type-1) may
play an important role in visceral pain and hypersensitivity states. In irritable bowel …

Gastric bypass leads to the remission of type 2 diabetes independently of weight loss. Our
hypothesis is that changes in bile flow due to the altered anatomy may partly explain the …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Primary (idiopathic) bile acid malabsorption (BAM) is a common,
yet underrecognized, chronic diarrheal syndrome. Diagnosis is difficult without selenium …

Chronic diarrhoea is a common problem, hence clear guidance on investigations is
required. This is an updated guideline from 2003 for the investigations of chronic diarrhoea …

Objective Transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1 (TRPV1) has been shown to play an
important role in visceral hypersensitivity. A significant proportion of patients with …