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SUBMITTER: Yamamoto-Furusho JK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4684874 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yamamoto-Furusho Jesús K JK Ascaño-Gutiérrez Ilse I Furuzawa-Carballeda Janette J Fonseca-Camarillo Gabriela G
Mediators of inflammation 20151206
Background. Patients with UC have shown an important defect in the secretion and maintenance of the mucosal barrier as part of inadequate expression of mucin genes. The aim of the present study was to determine the expression of MUC12, MUC16, and MUC20 in colonic tissue from patients with UC in regard to their clinical outcomes. Methods. We included a total of 40 patients with UC and 30 normal controls. Mucin gene expression was performed by RT-PCR and protein expression was detected by immunohi ...[more]