Correspondence to Dr Lauren Pringels, Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium; Lauren.Pringels{at}UGent.be Despite the high prevalence of tendon ...

Autoimmune gastritis is a chronic progressive inflammatory condition that results in the replacement of the parietal cell mass by atrophic and metaplastic mucosa. A complex interaction of ...

The exact pathophysiology of gestational diabetes is unknown. One main aspect of the underlying pathology is insulin resistance, where the body’s cells fail to respond to the hormone insulin in the ...

Considerable debate has surrounded the cause and underlying pathology of migraine and several theories have been proposed. The condition is generally thought to be of neurovascular origin, with ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this 12-part journey through a disease state ...

A detailed overview of the pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus, covering key mechanisms, disease progression, metabolic ...

Like all forms of cancer, lung cancer is defined by uncontrolled cell division caused by loss of physiological tissue homeostasis and failure of apoptotic cell death mechanisms. Aberrant cell ...

Neurodegenerative diseases are heterogeneous conditions characterized by selective dysfunction and progressive loss of neurons, glial cells and their networks in the human brain and spinal cord. As a ...

This course is part of The Applied Sciences of Oncology (ASO) distance-learning course.Aim: To provide an understanding of the basic molecular biology and pathogenesis of malignancies.ObjectivesUpon ...