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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Ann Walker
PROVIDER: E-TABM-733 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Smith Andrew M AM Rahman Farooq Z FZ Hayee Bu'Hussain B Graham Simon J SJ Marks Daniel J B DJ Sewell Gavin W GW Palmer Christine D CD Wilde Jonathan J Foxwell Brian M J BM Gloger Israel S IS Sweeting Trevor T Marsh Mark M Walker Ann P AP Bloom Stuart L SL Segal Anthony W AW
The Journal of experimental medicine 20090803 9
The cause of Crohn's disease (CD) remains poorly understood. Counterintuitively, these patients possess an impaired acute inflammatory response, which could result in delayed clearance of bacteria penetrating the lining of the bowel and predispose to granuloma formation and chronicity. We tested this hypothesis in human subjects by monitoring responses to killed Escherichia coli injected subcutaneously into the forearm. Accumulation of (111)In-labeled neutrophils at these sites and clearance of ...[more]