INNOVATIONS IN THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE

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differentiation and facilitate the healing process directly from local sources (Lolmede et al., 2009; Yiang et al., 2010). The discovery of HMGB1 as a critical mediator of inflammation in different inflammatory diseases has stimulated tremendous interest [r]

that runs a course independent of IBD, affects more than five joints,tends to cause persistent symptoms with a median duration of 3 yr, andis associated with uveitis but not with other extraintestinal manifesta-tions (10,11) (Table 2). Both forms are migratory, and nondeformingarthriti[r]

ligand is induced and thus stimulates immune response via NKG2D expression of NK / T-cells and prevents tumorigenesis. In this chapter the authors review the basic understandings of NKG2D function in anti-tumor immunity and the challenges and advances[r]

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binding oligomerization domain containing 2 (NOD2, also designated CARD15 and IBD1) as the first susceptible gene for CD (Hugot et al. 2001; Ogura et al. 2001a). Moreover, the IBD5 risk haplotype was identified from the linkage disequilibrium (LD) mapping of trios, and