Topics

The following topics, research and clinical updates, pathogenesis, and treatment will be especially focused:

• Alcoholic liver disease
• Acute pancreatitis
• Barrett's esophagus
• Basic and peripheral mechanism of gastroduodenal protection
• Celiac disease
• Cholestatic and autoimmune liver
• Chronic pancreatitis
• Chron's disease
• Complications of cirrhosis: portal hypertension
• Colorectal cancer
• COX-2, COX-1, NSAIDs
• Cytoprotection
• Duodenal ulcer
• Dyspepsia
• Endoscopy
• Ethics
• Functional GI disorders
• Gastric ulcer
• Genetic pathways
• GI cancer
• Gastroesophageal reflux disease
• Growth factors
• Gut peptides
• Healing pathways
• H. pylori
• Hepatocellular carcinoma
• Hepatitis A, B, C
• Hormones, receptors
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Intestinal adaptation
• Intestinal inflammation
• Ishemic disorders
• Liver transplatation
• Malabsorption
• Motility and nerve-gut interaction
• New drugs development
• Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
• Non-cardiac and cardiac chest pain
• Osteoporosis in gastrointestinal and liver diseases
• Pancreatobiliary neoplasms
• Peptic ulcer disease
• Peptides
• Short bowel syndrome
• Sphincters
• Stress ulcer
• Trophic factors
• Wound healing and GI tract injuries