[The Clinical and Pathogenetic Types of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: Risk Factors and Predictors].
[The clinical and pathogenetic types of gastroesophageal reflux disease: risk factors and predictors].
Ter Arkh. 2013; 85(2): 8-12
To study the clinical and pathogenetic types of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in terms of different types of reflux into the esophagus, their risk factors and predictors.The clinical, morphological, motor tonic characteristics of the esophagogastroduodenal area, the phenotypic and visceral signs of existing undifferentiated connective tissue dysplasias (UDCTD), and the suprasegmental and segmental autonomic apparatus were studied in detail in 124 patients with GERD.Two clinical and pathogenetic types of GERD associated with the predominance of gastroesophageal or duodenogastroesophageal refluxes (GER and DGER) are identified. The type of the disease running in the predominance of GER develops in subjects with the high rate of visceral stigmas of UDCTD–cardiac failure and hiatal hernias, sympathetic autonomic tone in the digestive system. The feeding preference of piquant and spicy dishes and spices serves to realize the predictors of this type. The DGER-associated type develops in subjects with a concurrence of sympathetic and parasympathetic total autonomic tones in the digestive system in the presence of preexisting biliary tract diseases, including abnormalities in the structure of the gallbladder as visceral signs of UDCTD and it is realized in the feeding preference of high-calorie dishes.It is promising to study the autonomic status and the signs of UDCTD as structural and functional predictors of GERD and its types for the prediction of the disease, professional orientation, and the acquisition of eating behavior primarily in young people. HubMed – eating
Hymenopteran parasitoids of the ant-eating spider Zodarion styliferum (Simon) (Araneae, Zodariidae).
Zookeys. 2013; 1-15
Korenko S, Schmidt S, Schwarz M, Gibson GA, Pekár S
Calymmochilus dispar Bou?ek & Andriescu (Hymenoptera, Eupelmidae) and Gelis apterus (Pontoppidan) (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) are newly recorded as parasitoids of the ant-eating spider Zodarion styliferum (Simon) (Araneae, Zodariidae). The larvae of both parasitoid species fed on juvenile spiders. The final instar larva and pupa of Calymmochilus dispar and the male of Gelis apterus are described for the first time. Both species represent new distribution records for Portugal. The biology and host associations of the parasitoids are discussed. HubMed – eating
Genetics of the ghrelin system.
Endocr Dev. 2013; 25: 25-40
Gueorguiev M, Korbonits M
Ghrelin was originally identified as a growth hormone secretagogue, but later studies suggested that it plays an important role in the regulation of appetite and body weight. The implication of genetic variants of the ghrelin-ghrelin receptor axis in the determination of stature, appetite, body weight, glucose metabolism and eating disorders has been the focus of numerous small and larger studies. More recently, several studies have shown some involvement of ghrelin and growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHSR) genetic variants in some cancers, or their role in the genetics of immune diseases or addictive behaviour. The overall results suggest that the effects of common genetic variants are lacking or modest, while rare sequence alteration may lead to disease status in individual patients. In this review we summarize the available data on the genetics of ghrelin axis in humans. HubMed – eating
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