During the last decade great advances have been made of water retention and dilutional
hyponatremia in human cirrhosis. Finally, the field of spontaneous infection of concerning …

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a common gastrointestinal disorder in adults. Recent advances in
pathophysiology, immunology, and pharmaceutical science have resulted in a large number …

Abstract Research Methods and Procedures: High‐fat (HF) diet feeding can induce obesity
and metabolic disorders in rodents that resemble the human metabolic syndrome. However …

Background The Selecting Therapeutic Targets in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (STRIDE)
initiative of the International Organization for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases …

Advances in immunology, biotechnology, and phar-maceutical science have resulted in an
unprecedented number of medications with potential application to the treatment of Crohn's …

Background & Aims: Bacterial wall products play an important role in the activation of
immune and nonimmune cells of the intestinal mucosa. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) TLR2 and …

Active rheumatoid arthritis originates from few joints but subsequently affects the majority of
joints. Thus far, the pathways of the progression of the disease are largely unknown. As …

Background & Aims: Transcription factors of the nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) family play an
important role in the regulation of genes involved in inflammation. In inflammatory bowel …

Crohn's disease (CD (is a lifelong disease arising from an interaction between genetic and
environmental factors, but seen predominantly in the developed countries of the world. The …

Genomic structure, promoter region, amino acid sequence and exon-specific primer
combinations of the human omentin gene are presented. Omentin mRNA expression differs …