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The serotonin receptor 3E variant is a risk factor for female IBS-D (2022)
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Fritz, N., Berens, S., Dong, Y., Martínez, C., Schmitteckert, S., Houghton, L. A., …Niesler, B. (2022). The serotonin receptor 3E variant is a risk factor for female IBS-D. Journal of Molecular Medicine, 100, 1617–1627. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00109-022-02244-w

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a gut-brain disorder of multifactorial origin. Evidence of disturbed serotonergic function in IBS accumulated for the 5-HT3 receptor family. 5-HT3Rs are encoded by HTR3 genes and control GI function, and peristalsis... Read More about The serotonin receptor 3E variant is a risk factor for female IBS-D.

Genome-wide analysis of 53,400 people with irritable bowel syndrome highlights shared genetic pathways with mood and anxiety disorders (2021)
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Eijsbouts, C., Zheng, T., Kennedy, N. A., Bonfiglio, F., Anderson, C. A., Moutsianas, L., …Parkes, M. (2021). Genome-wide analysis of 53,400 people with irritable bowel syndrome highlights shared genetic pathways with mood and anxiety disorders. Nature Genetics, 53(11), 1543-1552. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00950-8

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) results from disordered brain–gut interactions. Identifying susceptibility genes could highlight the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. We designed a digestive health questionnaire for UK Biobank and combined ide... Read More about Genome-wide analysis of 53,400 people with irritable bowel syndrome highlights shared genetic pathways with mood and anxiety disorders.

Small bowel water content assessed by MRI in health and disease: a collation of single-centre studies (2021)
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Dellschaft, N., Hoad, C., Marciani, L., Gowland, P., & Spiller, R. (2022). Small bowel water content assessed by MRI in health and disease: a collation of single-centre studies. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 55(3), 327-338. https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.16673

Background: New developments in MRI have allowed the non-invasive, accurate measurement of the small bowel water content (SBWC). Aims: To collate studies measuring SBWC following ingestion of a range of foods in both health and disease to provide dat... Read More about Small bowel water content assessed by MRI in health and disease: a collation of single-centre studies.

The alternative serotonin transporter promoter P2 impacts gene function in females with irritable bowel syndrome (2021)
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Mohr, S., Fritz, N., Hammer, C., Martínez, C., Berens, S., Schmitteckert, S., …Niesler, B. (2021). The alternative serotonin transporter promoter P2 impacts gene function in females with irritable bowel syndrome. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 25(16), 8047-8061. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcmm.16736

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a gut-brain disorder in which symptoms are shaped by serotonin acting centrally and peripherally. The serotonin transporter gene SLC6A4 has been implicated in IBS pathophysiology, but the underlying genetic mechanism... Read More about The alternative serotonin transporter promoter P2 impacts gene function in females with irritable bowel syndrome.

Colonic gene expression and fecal microbiota in diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome: Increased toll-like receptor 4 but minimal inflammation and no response to mesalazine (2021)
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Jalanka, J., Lam, C., Bennett, A., Hartikainen, A., Crispie, F., Finnegan, L. A., …Spiller, R. (2021). Colonic gene expression and fecal microbiota in diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome: Increased toll-like receptor 4 but minimal inflammation and no response to mesalazine. Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 27(2), 279-291. https://doi.org/10.5056/JNM20205

Background/Aims Diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D) has been previously associated with evidence of immune activation and altered microbiota. Our aim is to assess the effect of the anti-inflammatory agent, mesalazine, on inflammator... Read More about Colonic gene expression and fecal microbiota in diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome: Increased toll-like receptor 4 but minimal inflammation and no response to mesalazine.

Pain severity correlates with biopsy mediated colonic afferent activation but not psychological scores in IBS-D patients (2021)
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Cibert-Goton, V., Lam, C., Lingaya, M., Falcone, Y., Wood, J. N., Bulmer, D. C., & Spiller, R. (2021). Pain severity correlates with biopsy mediated colonic afferent activation but not psychological scores in IBS-D patients. Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology, 12(2), Article e00313. https://doi.org/10.14309/ctg.0000000000000313

Objectives: Despite heterogeneity an increased prevalence of psychological co-morbidity and an altered pro-nociceptive gut microenvironment have repeatedly emerged as causative pathophysiology in patients with irritable bowel syndrome(IBS). Our aim w... Read More about Pain severity correlates with biopsy mediated colonic afferent activation but not psychological scores in IBS-D patients.

Chronic constipation in adults: Contemporary perspectives and clinical challenges. 2: Conservative, behavioural, medical and surgical treatment (2021)
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Corsetti, M., Brown, S., Chiarioni, G., Dimidi, E., Dudding, T., Emmanuel, A., …Scott, S. M. (2021). Chronic constipation in adults: Contemporary perspectives and clinical challenges. 2: Conservative, behavioural, medical and surgical treatment. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 33(7), Article e14070. https://doi.org/10.1111/nmo.14070

Background: Chronic constipation is a prevalent disorder that affects quality of life of patients and consumes resources in healthcare systems worldwide. In clinical practice, it is still considered a challenge as clinicians frequently are unsure as... Read More about Chronic constipation in adults: Contemporary perspectives and clinical challenges. 2: Conservative, behavioural, medical and surgical treatment.

The MRI colonic function test: Reproducibility of the Macrogol stimulus challenge (2020)
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Wilkinson-Smith, V., Menys, A., Bradley, C., Corsetti, M., Marciani, L., Atkinson, D., …Hoad, C. (2020). The MRI colonic function test: Reproducibility of the Macrogol stimulus challenge. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 32(11), Article e13942. https://doi.org/10.1111/nmo.13942

Background Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the colonic response to a macrogol challenge drink can be used to assess the mechanisms underlying severe constipation. We measured the intra-subject reproducibility of MRI measures of colonic funct... Read More about The MRI colonic function test: Reproducibility of the Macrogol stimulus challenge.

Simultaneous measurement of gastric emptying of a soup test meal using MRI and gamma scintigraphy (2020)
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Khalaf, A., Hoad, C. L., Blackshaw, E., Alyami, J., Spiller, R. C., Gowland, P. A., …Marciani, L. (2020). Simultaneous measurement of gastric emptying of a soup test meal using MRI and gamma scintigraphy. Diagnostics, 10(3), Article 170. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10030170

Measurement of gastric emptying is of clinical value for a range of conditions. Gamma scintigraphy (GS) has an established role, but the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has recently increased. Previous comparison studies between MRI and GS sh... Read More about Simultaneous measurement of gastric emptying of a soup test meal using MRI and gamma scintigraphy.

First translational consensus on terminology and definitions of colonic motility in animals and humans studied by manometric and other techniques (2019)
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Corsetti, M., Costa, M., Bassotti, G., Bharucha, A. E., Borrelli, O., Dinning, P., …Tack, J. (2019). First translational consensus on terminology and definitions of colonic motility in animals and humans studied by manometric and other techniques. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 16(9), 559-579. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41575-019-0167-1

Alterations in colonic motility are implicated in the pathophysiology of bowel disorders, but high-resolution manometry of human colonic motor function has revealed that our knowledge of normal motor patterns is limited. Furthermore, various terminol... Read More about First translational consensus on terminology and definitions of colonic motility in animals and humans studied by manometric and other techniques.

Enhancing our understanding of small bowel function using modern imaging techniques (2019)
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Hoad, C., & Spiller, R. (2020). Enhancing our understanding of small bowel function using modern imaging techniques. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 32(1), Article e13616. https://doi.org/10.1111/nmo.13616

Small intestinal function is critical to digestive health and patients believe an abnormal reaction to food is responsible for many of their symptoms. Despite this, our ability to assess disturbed function in clinical practice has been limited, parti... Read More about Enhancing our understanding of small bowel function using modern imaging techniques.

Intraluminal impact of food: New insights from MRI (2019)
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Marciani, L., & Spiller, R. (2019). Intraluminal impact of food: New insights from MRI. Nutrients, 11(5), Article 1147. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11051147

© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Understanding how the gut responds to food has always been limited by the available investigatory techniques. Previous methods involving intubation and aspiration are largely limited to liquid... Read More about Intraluminal impact of food: New insights from MRI.

Spatio-Temporal Motility MRI analysis of the stomach and colon (2019)
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Menys, A., Hoad, C., Spiller, R., Scott, M., Atkinson, D., Marciani, L., & Taylor, S. (2019). Spatio-Temporal Motility MRI analysis of the stomach and colon. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 31(5), Article e13557. https://doi.org/10.1111/nmo.13557

Background: MRI is increasingly used to objectively assess gastrointestinal motility. However, motility metrics often do no not offer insights into the nature of contractile action. This study introduces a systematic method of making spatiotemporal m... Read More about Spatio-Temporal Motility MRI analysis of the stomach and colon.

Demonstration of differences in colonic volumes, transit, chyme consistency and response to psyllium between healthy and constipated subjects using magnetic resonance imaging (2018)
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Major, G., Murray, K., Singh, G., Nowak, A., Hoad, C. L., Marciani, L., …Spiller, R. C. (2018). Demonstration of differences in colonic volumes, transit, chyme consistency and response to psyllium between healthy and constipated subjects using magnetic resonance imaging. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 30(9), Article e13400. https://doi.org/10.1111/nmo.13400

Background: In functional gastrointestinal disorders a lack of objective biomarkers limits evaluation of underlying mechanisms. We aimed to demonstrate the utility of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for this task using psyllium, an effective constip... Read More about Demonstration of differences in colonic volumes, transit, chyme consistency and response to psyllium between healthy and constipated subjects using magnetic resonance imaging.

Hidden dangers of antibiotic use: increased gut permeability mediated by increased pancreatic proteases reaching the colon (2018)
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Spiller, R. C. (2018). Hidden dangers of antibiotic use: increased gut permeability mediated by increased pancreatic proteases reaching the colon. Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 6(3), 347–348.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmgh.2018.06.005

As we learn more about the importance of our microbiome in inflammatory, metabolic, and functional disorders, we are coming to appreciate the risks of disturbing this with broad-spectrum antibiotics. We have known for many years that as antibiotics h... Read More about Hidden dangers of antibiotic use: increased gut permeability mediated by increased pancreatic proteases reaching the colon.

Post infectious IBS: defining its clinical features and prognosis using an internet-based survey (2018)
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Card, T., Enck, P., Barbara, G., Boeckxstaens, G. E., Santos, J., Azpiroz, F., …Spiller, R. C. (2018). Post infectious IBS: defining its clinical features and prognosis using an internet-based survey. United European Gastroenterology Journal, 6(8), 1245-1253. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050640618779923

Background: Gastrointestinal infection is an important risk factor for developing IBS. Our aim was to characterise postinfectious IBS (PI-IBS) compared to other IBS patients. Methods: An internet survey of IBS patients using Rome III diagnostic ques... Read More about Post infectious IBS: defining its clinical features and prognosis using an internet-based survey.

Cortical differences in diverticular disease and correlation with symptom reports (2018)
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Pitiot, A., Smith, J. K., Garratt, J., Francis, S. T., Gowland, P. A., Spiller, R. C., & Marciani, L. (2018). Cortical differences in diverticular disease and correlation with symptom reports. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 30(7), Article e13303. https://doi.org/10.1111/nmo.13303

Background Recent studies have shown that the brain of patients with gastrointestinal disease differ both structurally and functionally from that of controls. Highly somatizing diverticular disease (HSDD) patients were also shown to differ from... Read More about Cortical differences in diverticular disease and correlation with symptom reports.