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GI is an acronym for gastro-intestinal, referring to anatomy of the digestive track leading from the mouth to the anus and includes the esophogus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine.
SEP 21, 2022 | 6:00 AM
The gastrointestinal (GI) epithelium is the body’s first line of defense to luminal contents such as food, microbiota, pharmaceuticals, and toxins. A small pool of proliferative stem a...
APR 20, 2022 | 5:30 AM
Esophageal adenocarcinoma [EAC] is the fastest growing in incidence cancer in the US over the last 25 years, while also having a 5 year survival of less than 20%. Barrett’s Esophagus [...
NOV 19, 2020 | 9:00 AM
Date: November 19, 2020 Time: 12:00am (PDT), 9:00am (CET), 4:00pm (SGT) We present split-FISH, a multiplexed fluorescence in situ hybridization method that leverages a split-probe design to...
JUL 07, 2020 | 9:00 AM
DATE: July 07, 2020 TIME: 9:00 am PDT The widely used TNM staging system is poorly predictive of response to adjuvant chemotherapy in Stage II and III colon cancer. As a result, there is ove...
APR 29, 2020 | 6:00 AM
Purpose: Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a Gram positive coccus which is part of the normal microbiota of the GI and GU tracts. However GBS is also a major cause of septicaemia and meningitis...
APR 29, 2020 | 6:00 AM
In the event of a radiological or nuclear disaster, there will be a need for therapies that can mitigate the acute hematopoietic and gastrointestinal (GI) radiation syndromes expected to dev...
OCT 22, 2019 | 8:00 AM
Calprotectin is a member of the S100 family of calcium binding proteins, being a hetero dimmer of S100A8/9 and accounts for 60% of the protein in the cytoplasm of neutrophils. It is released...
SEP 25, 2019 | 10:00 AM
DATE: September 25, 2019TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET Stool culture is the traditional method for identification of bacterial gastrointestinal (GI pathogens. Many of theses patho...
SEP 19, 2019 | 8:00 AM
Learning Objectives: Review basic immuno-pathobiology of IBD and the phenotypes of IBD or IBDs - Crohn’s, Ulcerative Colitis and Indeterminate Colitis Briefly describe the epide...
APR 02, 2019 | 3:00 PM
DATE: April 2, 2019TIME: 3:00pm CEST Dans ce webinaire, Marie Piketty rappelle que depuis quelques années, plusieurs cas d'interférences provoquées par l...
FEB 28, 2019 | 10:00 AM
DATE: February 28, 2019TIME: 10:00am PST, 1:00pm EST Over the past few years the gastroenterology diagnostic market has witnessed an increase in comm...
OCT 25, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: October 25, 2018TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT While the significance of the microbiome is unprecedented, a thorough study to dissect the role of individual popul...
MAY 03, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: May 3rd, 2018TIME: 8:00 AM PDT, 11:00 AM EDTIntestinal inflammation is a hallmark of the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including ulcerative colitis and Cr...
FEB 07, 2018 | 1:30 PM
The aerodigestive tract is a combination of the respiratory tract and the upper portion of the digestive tract. As these two organ systems share many of the necessary structures used for swal...
JAN 30, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: January 30, 2018TIME: 9:00AM PST, 12:00PM ESTInfectious disease surveillance and monitoring is critical in settings where disease outbreaks and antibiotic resistance can dramatica...
APR 19, 2017 | 4:00 AM
DATE: April 20th, 2017TIME: 10:00AM SGT, 11:00AM KST, 12:00PM AEST, 2:00PM NZSTWith increasing breadth and depth of genomics studies across a range of cancers, it is now apparent that t...
