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SUBMITTER: Friedman DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2757811 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Friedman David J DJ Künzli Beat M BM A-Rahim Yousif I YI Sevigny Jean J Berberat Pascal O PO Enjyoji Keiichi K Csizmadia Eva E Friess Helmut H Robson Simon C SC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090928 39
CD39/ENTPD1 hydrolyzes proinflammatory nucleotides to generate adenosine. As purinergic mediators have been implicated in intestinal inflammation, we hypothesized that CD39 might protect against inflammatory bowel disease. We studied these possibilities in a mouse model of colitis using mice with global CD39 deletion. We then tested whether human genetic polymorphisms in the CD39 gene might influence susceptibility to Crohn's disease. We induced colitis in mice using Dextran Sodium Sulfate (DSS) ...[more]