Daniel Urbain
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
103 Papers
627 Citations
Daniel Urbain is an academic researcher from Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The author has contributed to research in topics: Breath test & Hepatic stellate cell. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 103 publications. Previous affiliations of Daniel Urbain include VU University Amsterdam & Free University of Brussels.
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Papers
Heartburn in Belgium: prevalence, impact on daily life, and utilization of medical resources
Edouard Louis,Danny DeLooze,Pierre Henri Deprez,Martin Hiele,Daniel Urbain,P. Pelckmans,Jacques Devière,Michel Arthur Deltenre +7 more
TL;DR: Heartburn is very frequent in Belgium and is associated with a considerable negative impact on everyday life, which generates a significant use of medical resources.
Video Capsule Endoscopy in Small-bowel Malignancy: A Multicenter Belgian Study
Daniel Urbain,Danny De Looze,I. Demedts,Edouard Louis,Olivier Dewit,Elisabeth Macken,A. Van Gossum +6 more
TL;DR: Video capsule endoscopy is able to detect tumors undiagnosed by classical procedures in about 1.6% of cases and has an impact on the therapy in 55% of the tumor cases, according to the aim of this retrospective study.
Somatostatin suppresses endothelin-1-induced rat hepatic stellate cell contraction via somatostatin receptor subtype 1.
Hendrik Reynaert,Freya Vaeyens,Hong Qin,Karine Hellemans,Nirjhar Chatterjee,Dominique Winand,Erik Quartier,Frans Schuit,Daniel Urbain,Ujendra Kumar,Yogesh C. Patel,Albert Geerts,Albert Geerts +12 more
TL;DR: SST causes significant partial inhibition of ET-1-induced contraction of activated HSCs, mainly by stimulation of SSTR subtype 1, and SSTR agonist 1, but not Sstr agonist 2 or 3, was able to counteract the contractile effect ofET-1.
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Metastases to the thyroid gland - a report of six cases
TL;DR: Two of the patients in this series presented with hyperthyroidism, which may be due to invasion and disruption of thyroid follicles, and work-up should include ruling out other metastases and fine-needle aspiration cytology.
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Prevalence of and risk factors for H. pylori infection in healthy children and young adults in Belgium anno 2010/2011
TL;DR: In this cohort of Belgian asymptomatic children and young adults, the prevalence of H. pylori infection is 11%, ranging from 3-2% in Belgian born children with Belgian parents to 60% in children born in high prevalence countries from foreign parents.
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