Detection of insulin-like growth factor-I and transforming growth factor-β in whole gut lavage fluid: A novel method of studying intestinal fibrosis

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 505-508

  Ghosh, Subrata ^a,b   Humphreys, Kenneth ^a   Papachrysostomou, Maria ^a   Ferguson, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Insulin like growth factor I; Intestinal strictures; Transforming growth factor

Indexed keywords

SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; COLON DISEASE; CROHN DISEASE; DIVERTICULITIS; ENTEROPATHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIBROGENESIS; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE LAVAGE; INTESTINE STENOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE;

EID: 0031007483     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042737-199705000-00017     Document Type: Article

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