OBJECTIVES: Clinicians are becoming increasingly aware that inflammatory bowel disease
(IBD) can affect all age groups, although it has not been well described in infants and young …

Background & Aims: Thymus-expressed chemokine (TECK) or CCL25) is selectively
expressed in the small bowel (SB), where lamina propria lymphocytes (LPL) and …

IL-15 shares biological activities but no significant sequence homology with IL-2. It induces T
cell recruitment to sites of inflammation, T cell proliferation, and cytokine production and …

The pathogenic mechanisms responsible for inflammatory bowel disease, especially
ulcerative colitis (UC), are poorly understood. In animal models, the oral administration of …

BACKGROUND & AIMS:: Integrins (α4 and β2) and their endothelial ligands vascular cell
adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) play key …

OBJECTIVES Endogenous opioids and opioid antagonists have been shown to play a role
in healing and repair of tissues. In an open-labeled pilot prospective trial, the safety and …

Background & Aims: The aim of this study was to compare response to inactivated influenza
vaccine in healthy children and pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) …

Although the incidence of Crohn's disease (CD) in China is not as high as that in European
and American countries, there has been a clear increasing trend in recent years. Little is …

Reactive arthritis can be triggered by inflammatory bowel diseases. We hypothesized that
migration of mucosal immune cells from inflamed gut to joints could contribute to the …

We have evaluated morphologic alterations and epithelial cell apoptosis and proliferation of
colonic mucosa in the acute and chronic phases of DSS-induced colitis. Colitis was induced …