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World J Gastrointest Pharmacol Ther. Apr 6, 2012; 3(2): 7-20
Published online Apr 6, 2012. doi: 10.4292/wjgpt.v3.i2.7
Therapy of gallstone disease: What it was, what it is, what it will be
Piero Portincasa, Agostino Di Ciaula, Leonilde Bonfrate, David QH Wang
Piero Portincasa, Leonilde Bonfrate, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, Clinica Medica “A. Murri”, University of Bari Medical School, Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, Policlinico, 70124 Bari, Italy
Agostino Di Ciaula, Division of Internal Medicine, Hospital of Bisceglie, via Bovio 279, 70052 Bisceglie (Bari), Italy
David QH Wang, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Edward Doisy Research Center, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63104, United States
Author contributions: All authors wrote this editorial and gave substantial contributions to conception and design; all authors drafted the article and revised it critically for important intellectual content; all authors gave final approval of the version to be published.
Supported by (in part) research grants from the Italian Ministry of University and Research (No. FIRB 2003 RBAU01RANB002); the Italian National Research Council (short-term mobility grant 2005); the University of Bari (grants No. ORBA09XZZT and No. ORBA08YHKX) (to Portincasa P); University of Bari (No. DR11598-2009); and the National Institutes of Health (US Public Health Service) (research grants No. DK54012 and No. DK73917) (to Wang DQH)
Correspondence to: Piero Portincasa, MD, PhD, Professor, Section of Internal Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari Medical School, Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, Policlinico, 70124 Bari, Italy. p.portincasa@semeiotica.uniba.it
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Received: February 22, 2011
Revised: September 21, 2011
Accepted: September 28, 2011
Published online: April 6, 2012
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