Gut Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Conor McCann from the Department of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK and Dr Anestis Tsakiridis from the School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK on the paper "Human enteric nervous system progenitor transplantation improves functional responses in Hirschsprung disease patient-derived tissue" published in paper copy in Gut in September 2024. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/3UOTwqS) or Spotify (https://spoti.fi/3Ifxq9p).

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Samuel Huber, from the Department of Medicine, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, on the paper "Protective function of sclerosing cholangitis on IBD" published in paper copy in Gut in August 2024. Please subscribe to the Gut podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/3UOTwqS) or Spotify (https://spoti.fi/3Ifxq9p).

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Jay Pasricha, Chair of the Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Arizona, USA and Bo Konings, final year medical student and researcher at the Translational Research Centre for Gastrointestinal Disorders (TARGID), KU Leuven University Hospitals, Leuven, Belgium, on the paper "Gastrointestinal syndromes preceding a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease: testing Braak’s hypothesis using a nationwide database for comparison with Alzheimer’s disease and cerebrovascular diseases" published in paper copy in Gut in November 2023 and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/72/11/2103

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Mairi Mclean, Gut’s education editor, talks to Matteo Serino from the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), about his article Metabolic adaptation to a high-fat diet is associated with a change in the gut microbiota (http://tinyurl.com/a4rdl2e), which is this month’s editor’s choice.

Gut education editor Mairi Mclean talks to Professor Peter Malfertheiner, from the European Helicobacter Study Group, about the May editor’s choice paper: Management of Helicobacter pylori infection—the Maastricht IV/ Florence Consensus Report.

See also:

Guidelines: Management of Helicobacter pylori infection—the Maastricht IV/ Florence Consensus Report (http://tinyurl.com/bj2zn2g)

Gut education editor Mairi Mclean talks to Dr Shuji Ogino, from Harvard Medical School, about his paper on the asessment of colorectal cancer molecular features.

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Assessment of colorectal cancer molecular features along bowel subsites challenges the conception of distinct dichotomy of proximal versus distal colorectum (http://tinyurl.com/bgs7o7u)

Mairi Mclean (Gut education editor) talks to Maria Rescigno (European Institute of Oncology, Milan) about her editor’s choice paper - Probiotic and postbiotic activity in health and disease: comparison on a novel polarised ex-vivo organ culture model. (http://tinyurl.com/a8z4uqr)

Mairi McLean (Gut’s education editor) discusses August’s editor’s choice paper, on NKT-associated hedgehog and osteopontin and their role in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, with authors Anna Mae Diehl (chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Duke University), Wing-Kin Syn (head of Regeneration and Repair, Institute of Hepatology, London) and Steve Choi (assistant professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Duke University).

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NKT-associated hedgehog and osteopontin drive fibrogenesis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (http://tinyurl.com/aq5jt9p)

The Bowel Cancer Screening Programme has now been operating in England for six years, so how effective has it been in terms of take-up and detection? A paper in Gut examines the outcomes, and education editor Mairi McLean talks to some of the authors to hear what they found.

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Outcomes of the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) in England after the first 1 million tests (http://tinyurl.com/ax3cnlm)

Recent studies have identified mucosal healing as a key prognostic parameter in the management of inflammatory bowel diseases. In this podcast Mairi McLean, education editor for Gut, talks to Marcus Neurath from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and Simon Travis from John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, about their systematic review of the clinical studies on mucosal healing. They discuss the effects of anti-inflammatory or immunosuppressive drugs, and the implications of mucosal healing for subsequent clinical management in patients with IBD.

See also:

Mucosal healing in inflammatory bowel diseases: a systematic review (http://tinyurl.com/bk7tglj)