Intestinal strictures are a frequent complication in patients with Crohn's Disease (CD) and
the presence of fibrosis within strictures impacts the therapeutic treatment approach. Here …

The incidence of inflammatory bowel disease, ie, Crohn's disease and Ulcerative colitis, has
significantly increased over the last decade. The etiology of IBD remains unknown and …

Inflammatory bowel diseases including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis resemble a
large burden for patients due to the chronic course of disease. Therefore, there is an urgent …

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is characterized by chronic inflammation of the colorectum.
Histological remission has emerged as a potential future treatment goal; however, the …

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are inflammatory disorders of the gastrointestinal tract
characterized by a chronic relapsing disease course. As uncontrolled intestinal inflammation …

Patients with Crohn's disease (CD) commonly develop bowel strictures, which may contain
various degrees of inflammation and fibrosis. While predominantly inflammatory strictures …

Background/Aim Diffraction enhanced imaging (DEI) is a synchrotron radiation X-ray phase-
contrast imaging technique that can better reveal the microstructure of biological soft tissues …

Polarization dependence second harmonic generation (P-SHG) microscopy is gaining
increase popularity for in situ quantification of fibrillar protein architectures. In this report, we …

Strictures in Crohn's disease (CD) are a hallmark of long‐standing intestinal damage,
brought about by inflammatory and non‐inflammatory pathways. Understanding the complex …

Patients with Crohn disease commonly have bowel strictures develop, which exhibit varying
degrees of inflammation and fibrosis. Differentiation of the distinct inflammatory and fibrotic …