Digestive Health Center

Gastroenterology Medicine Conference

Below is a list of UMMC speakers who presented this week at the Digestive Disease Week (DDW 2009) event a major gastroenterology medicine conference held May 30 - June 4 at McCormick Place in Chicago, and the topics they discussed.

A New Method for Determining Gastric Acid Output using a wireless capsule
Date:	5/31/2009
Speaker:	Lakshmi Gopal

Acetylcholine-induced colon cancer cell migration is mediated by epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-dependent activation of both ERK and PI3K signaling
Date:	5/31/2009
Speaker:	Angelica Belo

Wireless capsule endoscopy practice makes perfect? A survey of capsule endoscopy viewing practices in the United States
Date:	5/31/2009
Speaker:	Jordan Wolff

Azoxymethane (AOM)-Induced Ductular Reaction is Potentiated by Muscarinic Receptor Inhibition
Date:	5/31/2009
Speaker:	Nirish Shah

Activation of Host Proteolytic Pathways by nematode generated serine proteases is a stereotypic mechanism of Molecular mimicry
Date:	5/31/2009
Speaker:	Jennifer Stiltz

Enteric Nematodes secrete a thrombin-like serine protease which interacts with host PAR1 and barrier function
Date:	5/31/2009
Speaker:	Luigi Notari

Azoxymethane (AOM)-Induced Ductular Reaction is Potentiated by Muscarinic Receptor Inhibition
Date:	5/31/2009
Speaker:	Nirish Shah

Does the Model for End Stage Liver Disease (MELD) Underestimate the Severity of Kidney and Liver Disease in Women
Date:	6/1/2009
Speaker:	Ayse L. Mindikoglu, M.D., M.P.H.

A Comparative Study of of Hepatic Histology of the African-American and Caucasian Hepatitis C Virus Positive Patients with and without End Stage Renal Disease
Date:	6/1/2009
Speaker:	Florence Aslinia

The Utility of Immunohistochemistry, Viral Culture, and Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal Cytomegalovirus Infection: A Case Series
Date:	6/2/2009
Speaker:	Erik von Rosenvinge

Characterization of Ductular Reaction in Azoxymethane (AOM)-Treated Mice: Role of M3 Muscarinic Receptors
Date:	6/2/2009
Speaker:	Nirish Shah

In the ApcMin/+ Murine Model of Intestinal Neoplasia, Both Tumor Formation and Perturbation of Cell Differentiation Require Expression of M3 Muscarinic Receptors
Date:	6/2/2009
Speaker:	Jasleen Shant

NBI Characterization of the Gastroesophageal Junction after Endoscopic Spray Cryotherapy
Date:	6/3/2009
Speaker:	Darryn Potosky

Endoscopic Cryotherapy for Esophageal Cancer
Date:	6/3/2009
Speaker:	Bruce Greenwald

EUS for staging of early esophageal cancer
Date:	6/3/2009
Speaker:	Andy Gentry/BG

Adequacy of EUS-guided true cut liver biopsy
Date:	6/3/2009
Speaker:	Darwin/Acosta

In human colon cancer cells, bile acid-induced rescue from apoptosis activated via either the extrinsic or intrinsic pathway is both Akt- and NF-kappaB-dependent
Date:	6/3/2009
Speaker:	Jasleen Shant

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