Despite inherent difficulties in defining and measuring stress, a scientific framework has
been provided in recent years for understanding how disruptive life experiences might be …

Current evidence indicates that the neuroendocrine system is the highest regulator of
immune/inflammatory reactions. Prolactin and growth hormone stimulate the production of …

El‐Salhy M, Danielsson Å, Stenling R, Grimelius L (University Hospital, Umeå; and
University Hospital, Uppsala; Sweden). Colonic endocrine cells in inflammatory bowel …

The role of the immune system in controlling intestinal electrolyte transport was studied in rat
and rabbit colon in Ussing chambers. A phagocyte stimulus, the chemotactic peptide FMLP …

OBJECTIVES Several studies suggest that stressful situations (stressors) worsen the course
of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but the mechanism is not known. Based on several …

A wide variety of primary and metastatic human neoplasms express somatostatin receptors
(SS‐Rs). We evaluated the SS‐R status of malignant lymphomas that had been surgically …

The growing appreciation of the active interface between the immune system and the
nervous system includes recog-nition of the cell surface molecules and the transducing …

Vasoactive intestinal peptide is a neuropeptide with potent modulatory activity on intestinal
immunity and may be implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) …

This article discusses the pathophysiology of VIP-induced secretory diarrhea. It offers a
rational approach to both the acute and chronic management of VIPoma syndrome and …

To study the possible alteration of mucosal-submucosal somatostatin-containing cells in
inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), the total numbers of somatostatin-containing endocrine …