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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
DISEASE(S): Crohn's disease
SUBMITTER: Thomas Langmann
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-1152 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) 20061021 12
Loss of intestinal mucosa integrity is an important factor in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The aim of this study was to characterize expression changes and allelic variants of genes related to intestinal epithelial barrier function in this disease. Therefore, ileal and colonic mucosal biopsies from nonaffected regions of patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), as well as non-IBD probands, were subjected to Affymetrix DNA-microarray analysis. Real- ...[more]