Etiology of Crohn's disease: Do certain food additives cause intestinal inflammation by molecular mimicry of mycobacterial lipids?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 859-864

  Traunmuller F ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD1 ANTIGEN; EMULSIFYING AGENT; FOOD ADDITIVE; GAMMA INTERFERON; MYCOBACTERIUM ANTIGEN; PLASTICIZER; THICKENING AGENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; GLYCOLIPID;

ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENTERITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EUROPE; GRANULOMATOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COLITIS; IMMUNOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM;

COLITIS; CROHN DISEASE; FOOD ADDITIVES; GLYCOLIPIDS; HUMANS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS;

EID: 27244447443     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.05.040     Document Type: Article

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