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SUBMITTER: Auernhammer CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4250713 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Auernhammer Christoph-J CJ Zitzmann Kathrin K Schnitzler Fabian F Seiderer Julia J Lohse Peter P Vlotides George G Engelhardt Dieter D Sackmann Michael M Goke Burkhard B Ochsenkuhn Thomas T
World journal of gastroenterology 20050201 8
<h4>Aim</h4>To study the role of the intracellular receptor domain of gp130 in human inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).<h4>Methods</h4>We amplified and sequenced the complete exon 17 of the human gp130 gene in 146 patients with IBD. According to clinical and histopathological signs, the 146 patients with IBD were classified as having Crohn's disease (n = 73) or ulcerative colitis (n = 63), or as indeterminate status (n = 10).<h4>Results</h4>No mutations in exon 17 of the gp130 gene could be detec ...[more]