Toll-like receptor-4 signaling: A possible candidate pathway to support tobacco smoking effects in ulcerative colitis

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2947-2948

  Savoye, Guillaume ^a   Lerebours, Eric ^a  

^a ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

COLON RESECTION; CROHN DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LETTER; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOKING; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOKING; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

EID: 55349132337     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.02094_11.x     Document Type: Letter

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