Immunopathogenesis of IBD: Current state of the art

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 13-27

  De Souza, Heitor S P ^a   Fiocchi, Claudio ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARMIN; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR; GAMMA INTERFERON; INFLAMMASOME; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 23 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 9; MICRORNA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; X BOX BINDING PROTEIN 1; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADIPOCYTE; ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; ATG16L1 GENE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSBIOSIS; EFFECTOR CELL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; FUSOBACTERIACEAE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HELICOBACTER; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINAL FIBROSIS; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE INNERVATION; INTESTINE MUCOSA; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; IRGM GENE; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOID CELL; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MDR1 GENE; MESENCHYME CELL; MESENTERIC FAT; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NOD2 GENE; OBESITY; PASTEURELLACEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TLR4 GENE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; XBP1 GENE; ADULT; CHILD; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADULT; ALARMINS; CAUSALITY; CHILD; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFLAMMASOMES; MICROBIOTA; MICRORNAS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84951919076     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2015.186     Document Type: Review

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