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Defective macrophage handling of Escherichia coli in Crohn's disease.
Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology - 1 Aug 2015
Elliott T R, Hudspith B N, Rayment N B, Prescott N J, Petrovska L, Hermon-Taylor J, Brostoff J, Boussioutas A, Mathew C G, Sanderson J D
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BACKGROUND AND AIM: Escherichia coli can be isolated from lamina propria macrophages in Crohn's disease (CD), and their intramacrophage persistence may provide a stimulus for inflammation. To further determine the contributions of macrophage dysfunction and E. coli pathogenicity to this, we aimed to compare in vitro functioning of macrophages from patients with CD and healthy controls (HC) in response to...
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