Background: The relationship between the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
(NSAIDs), including aspirin, and the risk of gastric cancer has not been well studied. We …

Background During the spring of 2013, a novel avian-origin influenza A (H7N9) virus
emerged and spread among humans in China. Data were lacking on the clinical …

Background Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is common in patients with
noncardiac chest pain (NCCP). Results of studies evaluating the accuracy of a proton pump …

Urea is ubiquitous in natural environments and serves as a readily available nitrogen (N)-
source for the growth of many organisms, including plants. It is synthesized during the …

Background & Aims: The aim of this study was to assess systematically the efficacy of proton
pump inhibitors (PPIs) in the treatment of functional dyspepsia compared with placebo and …

Objectives Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are important initiators in native immune responses to
microbial infections. TLR4 is up-regulated in response to H. pylori infection in gastric …

A pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) infection
broke out all over the world; however, epidemiological data and viral shedding in pediatric …

Despite the great agricultural and ecological importance of efficient use of urea‐containing
nitrogen fertilizers by crops, molecular and physiological identities of urea transport in higher …

AIM: To systematically evaluate the efficacy of H 2-receptor antagonists (H 2 RAs) and
proton pump inhibitors in healing erosive esophagitis (EE). METHODS: A meta-analysis was …

Exhaustion of cytotoxic effector natural killer (NK) and CD8+ T cells have important functions
in the establishment of persistent viral infections, but how exhaustion is induced during …