G Bamias, MR Nyce, SA De La Rue, F … - Annals of internal medicine, 2005 - Am Coll Physicians Ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease are collectively called the inflammatory
bowel diseases (IBDs) be- cause of such similarities as a chronic remitting and
relaps- ing course, their inflammatory nature, and their unknown causes. ... Cited by 89 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 12 versions
P Principles - redaccionmedica.com Clinical Principles The inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), that is, Crohn
disease and ulcerative colitis, affect approximately 1 million persons in North
America and several million persons worldwide. Approximately 30% of ... Related articles - View as HTML
MC Dubinsky, K Taylor, SR Targan, JI Rotter - World Journal of Gastroenterology, 2006 - wjg.wjgnet.com The currently accepted etiopathogenic hypothesis suggests that the chronic
intestinal inflammation and related systemic manifestations characteristic of
inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are due to an overly aggressive or ... Cited by 12 - Related articles - Cached - BL Direct - All 7 versions
T Hibi, H Ogata - Journal of gastroenterology, 2006 - Springer It is very clear that genetic factors play an important role in the pathogenesis
of IBD and in both Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC).
Epidemiological studies in monozygotic and dizygotic twins, as well as ... Cited by 45 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►jimmunol.org T Totsuka, T Kanai, Y Nemoto, S Makita, R … - The Journal of Immunology, 2007 - Am Assoc Immnol Although IL-7 has recently emerged as a key cytokine involved in controlling the
homeostatic turnover and the survival of peripheral resting memory CD4 + T
cells, its potential to be sustained pathogenic CD4 + T cells in chronic ... Cited by 22 - Related articles - All 5 versions
P Seksik, H Sokol, P Lepage, N Vasquez, C … - Alimentary Pharmacology &# 38; Therapeutics, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com Information was also obtained from observational studies that described the
composition of the faecal and mucosal microbiota at various stages of the
disease process and in controls. Many have used culture-independent ... Cited by 48 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►jimmunol.org S Makita, T Kanai, Y Nemoto, T Totsuka, R … - The Journal of Immunology, 2007 - Am Assoc Immnol It is well known that immune responses in the intestine remain in a state of
controlled inflammation, suggesting that not only does active suppression by
regulatory T (T REG ) cells play an important role in the normal intestinal ... Cited by 30 - Related articles - All 3 versions
L Eckmann, M Karin - Immunity, 2005 - Elsevier The human nucleotide binding and oligomerization domain (NOD)-containing protein
family consists of some 25 members related to the Apaf-1/Ced-4 family of
apoptosis regulators and certain plant disease-resistance genes (Inohara et ... Cited by 93 - Related articles - All 10 versions
T Totsuka, T Kanai, R Iiyama, K Uraushihara … - Gastroenterology, 2003 - Elsevier *1 Supported in part by grants-in-aid from the Japanese Ministry of Education,
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BK Reuter, TT Pizarro - European Journal of Immunology, 2004 - immuneweb.xxmu.edu.cn Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are examples of inflammatory bowel
disease (IBD), and are multifaceted chronic autoimmune disorders with unknown
etiology; to date, there is no known cure. IBD is thought to occur as a ... Cited by 36 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 4 versions
