Search results for: SECRETORY LEUCOCYTE PEPTIDASE INHIBITOR

• Population-based case-control study of alpha 1-antitrypsin and SLC11A1 in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

  Publication

  • R. Kotlowski
  • C. Bernstein
  • M. Silverberg
  • D. Krause

  - INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES - Year 2008

  Background: Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are chronic inflammatory diseases of the digestive tract. Genetic factors and an abnormal immune response to infections are suspected to be involved in inflammatory bowel diseases. Methods: In the present study 300 blood samples from CD patients (n 100), UC patients (n 100), and healthy controls (n 100) were taken from a population-based case-control study. PCR assays...

  Full text to download in external service