Association of CD4-positive cell infiltration with response to vedolizumab in patients with ulcerative colitis

Abstract Not all patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) respond initially to treatment with biologic agents, and predicting their efficacy prior to treatment is difficult. Vedolizumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody against alpha 4 beta 7 (α4β7) integrin, suppresses immune cell migration by blocking...

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Main Authors: Haruka Miyazaki, Namiko Hoshi, Tsukasa Ishida, Chiharu Nishioka, Sachiko Ouchi, Daisuke Shirasaka, Tomoo Yoshie, Yoshinori Munetomo, Yoshio Sakamoto, Tatsuya Osuga, Saori Matsui, Toshiki Hyodo, Tamami Denda, Daisuke Watanabe, Makoto Ooi, Yuzo Kodama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-11-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47618-3