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Innate immune defence: NOD2 and autophagy in the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease.
Swiss medical weekly - 1 Jan 2010
Hruz Petr, Eckmann Lars
Abstract excerpt
Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the gut with a poorly understood aetiology. Epidemiological studies suggest that the disease occurs in genetically susceptible individuals as a consequence of defects in mucosal barrier function and disregulated immune recognition of commensal gut flora. Of more than 30 genetic loci associated with CD, two genes with important polymorphisms, encoding the...
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