... as a ligand-activated transcription factor, but also affects signal transduction by interacting with other transcription factors such as NF-κB (nuclear factor κB). Constitutive expression of PPARβ/δ in the gastrointestinal tract is very high compared with other tissues and its potential physiological roles...

... Society and the Medical Research Society © 2001 2001 gastrointestinal tract intestinal injury repair nutrition 627Clinical Science (2001) 100, 627 633 (Printed in Great Britain) Co-administration of the health food supplement, bovine colostrum, reduces the acute non-steroidal anti-inflammatory...

...L. A. James; P. G. Lunn; S. Middleton; M. Elia 1. The activities of the two key enzymes involved in glutamine metabolism, glutaminase and glutamine synthetase, were measured in mucosal biopsies taken from different sites throughout the human gastrointestinal tract, from oesophagus to rectum. 2...

... uptake into primary rat hepatocytes at various doses in vitro and on various parameters of proliferation within the gastrointestinal tract when infused intravenously at 50 nmol day −1 kg −1 into rats receiving total parenteral nutrition. 3. Epidermal growth factor 1–53 was about twice as potent...

... unaffected. 3. Ethanol feeding had no significant effect on cardiac output. Furthermore, the percentage of cardiac output to type I and type II fibre-rich muscles, bone and tissues of the gastrointestinal tract, i.e. stomach, small intestine and large intestine, was unaffected by ethanol consumption...

... 1970 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society 1970 absorption cell division cell migration food intake gastrointestinal tract intestine proliferation starvation Clinical Science ( 1988) 74, 30 1-306 30 1 Epithelial cell proliferation and intestinal absorptive function...

... is closely linked to functional capacity and both of these are also related to the food intake. Key words: absorption, cell division, diabetes, food intake, gastrointestinal tract, hypophysectomy, intestine, lactation, proliferation, starvation. Abbreviation: CCPR, crypt cell production rate. Introduction...

...P. G. Wheeler; I. S. Menzies; B. Creamer 1. Oral loads have been used to assess the permeability of the human gastrointestinal tract, with lactulose (mol. wt. 342), raffinose (mol. wt. 504), stachyose (mol. wt. 666) and a fluoresceinlabelled dextran (mol. wt. 3000) as marker substances. Timed...