Gastrointestinal Disorders. Symptoms, Treatment and Prevention

Description:

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the symptoms, treatment and prevention of gastrointestinal disorders. Topics discussed include short bowel syndrome; gastrointestinal disorders in pregnant women; dual topology of the gastric proton pump; epithelial barrier function in inflammatory bowel disease; treatment of laryngopharyngeal symptoms related to gastroesophageal reflux disease by proton pump inhibitors; Crohn's disease and the therapeutic perspectives of gastrointestinal melatonin. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical)

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Gastrointestinal Disorders: Symptoms, Treatment and Prevention
  (Joshua J Malago, Department of Veterinary Pathology, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania)
• Short Bowel Syndrome
  (I. Sukhotnik, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Pediatric Surgery and Pathology, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel)
• Yeast Plasma Membrane and Vacuolar H+- ATPases: Review
  (Norma Silvia Sánchez, Daniela E. Castro, Martha Calahorra, Gloria A. Martínez-Muñoz, Antonio Peña, Departamento de Genética Molecular, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F., México)
• Gastrointestinal Disorders in Pregnant Women: Outcomes, Treatment and Prevention
  (Andrew E. Czeizel, János Banai, Ferenc Bánhidy, Foundation for the Community Control of Hereditary Diseases, Budapest, Hungary, and others)
• Dual Topology of the Gastric Proton Pump: A Bidirectional Molecular Motor for Simultaneous Uphill Transport of H+ and K+
  (Tushar K. Ray, Pratap K. Das, J. Michael Zinkievich, Jyotirmoy Nandi, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA, and others)
• Epithelial Barrier Function in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  (Raquel Martín-Venegas, María José Rodríguez-Lagunas, Ana María Guerrero-Zamora, María Teresa Brufau, Ruth Ferrer, Departament de Fisiologia, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
• Treatment of Laryngopharyngeal Symptoms Related to Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease by Proton Pump Inhibitors: A Systematic Review
  (Sami Karoui, Norsaf Bibani, Meriem Serghini, Jalel Boubaker, Azza Filali, Department of Gastroenterology, A. La Rabta Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia)
• Crohn’s Disease
  (Jia-ju Zheng, Yun-di Guo, Su-zhou Institute for Digestive Disease and Nutrition, Su-zhou Municipal Hospital, Nan-jing Medical University, Su-zhou, Jiang-su Province, P.R. China, and others)*
• Therapeutic Perspectives of Gastrointestinal Melatonin
  (George A. Bubenik, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada)*
• Index