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SUBMITTER: Hayee B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4618314 | biostudies-other | 2010 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Expert review of clinical immunology 20100701 4
The pathogenesis of Crohn's disease (CD) has widely been regarded as the consequence of a dysregulated T-cell-mediated response to intestinal microbes, and the majority of the worldwide research effort has focused on characterizing and treating the chronic inflammatory phase of the disease. However, recent molecular biological and clinical investigations indicate that CD is actually a primary immunodeficiency. At first counter-intuitive, the apparent paradox of a pathogenic innate immune defect ...[more]