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The pathologic galaxy modulating the genotype and phenotype of inflammatory bowel disease: comorbidity, contiguity, and genetic and epigenetic factors.
Minerva medica - 1 Dec 2016
Actis Giovanni C, Pellicano Rinaldo
Abstract excerpt
The inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are being seen as a gut inflammatory hub occurring: 1) with inflammatory spots in the eyes, skin, liver, joints (extra-intestinal manifestations); 2) with functionally contiguous disorders such as psoriasis and lung disease (barrier organ diseases); 3) as the consequence of genetic loss of non-redundant cell functions that are critical for gut homeostasis and defense...
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