Article
Bacteria-macrophage interactions in the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease
2017-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Crohn's disease (CD) is associated with defective innate immunity, including impaired neutrophil chemotaxis, and mucosal invasion by bacteria, particularly E. coli that replicate inside macrophage phagolysosomes. In this thesis several hypotheses were tested: (i) that CD macrophages might be defective at killing and or responding to Gram-negative bacteria, particularly E. coli; (ii) that killing of phagocytosed ba...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1d2ade0a-eb55-5bd3-aa44-46d9cf7eb7a2
- DOI
- 10.17638/03008673
