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SUBMITTER: Paiva NM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5805688 | biostudies-other | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Paiva Nielce Maria NM Pascoal Lívia Bitencourt LB Negreiros Leandro Minatel Vidal LMV Portovedo Mariana M Coope Andressa A Ayrizono Maria de Lourdes Setsuko MLS Coy Claudio Saddy Rodrigues CSR Milanski Marciane M Leal Raquel Franco RF
Scientific reports 20180208 1
Total retocolectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) is the surgery of choice for patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) that are refractory to clinical treatment. Pouchitis is one of the most common complications after this procedure. Defects in autophagy have been reported in inflammatory bowel diseases. However, there are no studies on the IP. Therefore, we studied markers for autophagy in the IP mucosa of UC and FAP patients comparing them to controls with a normal distal ileum. Sixte ...[more]