Your lower esophagus, stomach, intestines, liver, and kidneys are below the diaphragm ... A healthy person can have some minor variations in the diaphragm's anatomy. For example, the left or right ...

The advent of agriculture 12,000 years ago increased the availability of affordable, energy-dense, palatable food, resulting in a substantial effect on the evolutionary physiology of hunger that ...

In the previous section, we analyzed paradigms that have evolved from experimental models. Clinical observations support the role of such pathophysiological mechanisms. As a consequence of the ...

Published in the Journal of Comparative Physiology B, the study offers new insight into the two species and follows up on research led by former university biologist Oscar "Bud" Owre, who also was ...

Differential diagnoses include hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES), heroin‐associated spongiform leukoencephalopathy, and opioid‐associated ...

State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550081, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China State ...

Non-alcoholic Wernicke encephalopathy is difficult for early diagnosis. Case presentation: One case involved a 62-year-old man who was admitted to hospital with drug-induced liver failure. He ...

Background and Aims: Acute variceal bleed (AVB) is an important precipitating factor for development of hepatic encephalopathy (HE). However, there is paucity of data on the role of lactulose for ...