Mast cells count and serum cytokine levels in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 57, Issue 101, 2010, Pages 751-754

  Goral, Vedat ^a   Kucukoner, Mehmet ^a   Buyukbayram, Huseyin ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cytokine; IBS; Mast cell

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CECUM; COLITIS; COLON BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRRITABLE COLON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAST CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM BIOPSY;

ADULT; CECUM; CELL COUNT; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MAST CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; RECTUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149250503     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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