Serum miRNA signature diagnoses and discriminates murine colitis subtypes and predicts ulcerative colitis in humans

Abstract Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is difficult to diagnose due to nonspecific and variable symptoms, and lack of reliable diagnostic tests. Current methods are invasive, non-sensitive, non-predictive, and do not easily discriminate between its two main forms. Consequently, there remains a gr...

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Main Authors: Emilie Viennois, Yuan Zhao, Moon Kwon Han, Bo Xiao, Mingzhen Zhang, Meena Prasad, Lixin Wang, Didier Merlin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02782-1