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Chronic mucosal inflammation/inflammatory bowel disease-like inflammation after intestinal transplantation: where are we now?
Current opinion in organ transplantation - 1 Jun 2014
Matsumoto Cal S, Zasloff Michael A, Fishbein Thomas M
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The purpose of this review is to highlight the similarities between inflammatory bowel disease and the state of the intestine allograft after transplantation. RECENT FINDINGS: The mutant nucleotide-binding oligomerization protein 2 (NOD2) gene, which encodes for an intracellular protein that serves as an innate immune system microbial sensor in macrophages, dendritic cells, and certain...
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