Chronic Intestinal Inflammation: Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Colitis-Associated Colon Cancer
The inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, are chronic inflammatory disorders of the intestine. The prevalence in the United States is greater than 200 cases per 100,000, with the total number of IBD patients between 1 and 1.5 million. Crohn’s disease m...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-05-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Immunology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fimmu.2012.00107/full |