High Intestinal and Systemic Levels of Interleukin-23/T-Helper 17 Pathway in Chinese Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• Main Authors: Lu Song (Author), Rui Zhou (Author), Sha Huang (Author), Feng Zhou (Author), Shufang Xu (Author), Wei Wang (Author), Fengming Yi (Author), Xiaobing Wang (Author), Bing Xia (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Interleukin-23/T-helper 17 (IL-23/Th17) pathway plays a key role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but little is known about its expression in Chinese population. In this study, we investigated the mRNA and protein levels of IL-12p40, tumor necrosis factor-like cytokine 1A (TL...