Crohn's disease

@article{Shanahan2002CrohnsD,
  title={Crohn's disease},
  author={Fergus Shanahan},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={2002},
  volume={359},
  pages={62-69}
}
  • F. Shanahan
  • Published 5 January 2002
  • Medicine, Biology
  • The Lancet
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Transplanting the genetic susceptibility to Crohn’s disease
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Clinical and experimental evidence for the role of distinct mononuclear cell populations has been limited, and aetiological aspects are reconciled in a paradigm, in which CD could result from disturbances of the intestinal barrier and pathological activation of the intestine immune response towards luminal bacterial antigens in individuals with genetic susceptibility.
New Biologic Drugs for Ulcerative Colitis
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Biologic Therapy for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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The mucosal immune system is the central effector of intestinal inflammation and injury, with cytokines playing a central role in modulating inflammation, and Cytokines may be a logical target for IBD therapy using specific cytokine inhibitors.
Pathophysiology of inflammatory bowel disease: an overview.
Accumulation of CCR5+ T cells around RANTES+ granulomas in Crohn's disease: a pivotal site of Th1-shifted immune response?
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The results suggest that the noncaseating granulomas could be one of the crucial sites of Th1-shifted immune responses in Crohn's disease.
The Gastroenterologist’s Update on Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) includes a collection of disorders of the gastrointestinal tract of unknown aetiology, characterized by intestinal inflammation and a chronic relapsing…
Crohn's colitis in infancy.
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A case of Crohns colitis is reported because it is rare at this age and appeared at the hospital in an infant for the first time and is reported to be 3-4/100 000.
Mechanisms and Efficacy of Immunobiologic Therapies for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
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Immunobiologic agents targeted against TNF, leukocyte adhesion, Th1 polarization, T cell activation, nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-ÎşB), and others are being assessed and will open exciting perspectives on development of therapies for inflammatory bowel disease.
Enteral nutrition in the management of Crohn's disease.
  • A. Griffiths
  • Medicine
    JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition
  • 2005
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This workshop aims to examine possible mechanisms of action of enteral nutrition as primary therapy, and to make evidence-based recommendations concerning its use in the new era of biologic therapies, when mucosal healing has become a realistic goal.
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Current consensus holds that the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease involves the interacting elements of multigenic host susceptibility factors and environmental priming from the enteric microflora.
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In his Perspective, Shanahan discusses a new therapeutic approach to treating inflammatory bowel disease in which bacteria normally found in the gut are engineered to produce the anti-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-10 and then are fed as probiotics to mice with these disorders.
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