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The microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: friend, bystander, and sometime-villain.
Nutrition reviews - 1 Aug 2012
Shanahan Fergus
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Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, collectively known as inflammatory bowel disease, represent the heterogeneous outcome of three colliding influences: genetic risk factors, environmental modifiers, and immune effector mechanisms of tissue injury. The nature of these inputs is complex, with each having distinct and overlapping contributions to ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Identification of...
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