Understanding Crohn's Disease: Immunity, Genes and Microbes

• Päätekijä: Fernando Magro (auth)
• Muut tekijät: Nair Campos (auth), Amelia Sarmento (auth)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Sarja: Frontiers Research Topics
• Aiheet: Medicine; intestinal microbiota; mucosal immune system; Crohn's disease; T cells; gene polymorphisms; epigenetics; mutritional modulation
• Linkit: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic, relapsing, inflammatory bowel disease resulting in considerable morbidity and reduced quality of life. Although still under intense debate, CD seems to result from an enhanced and uncontrolled immune response to the gut microbiota. CD is thought to be multifac...