Infectious Scarring: Setting the Trigger for Intestinal Inflammation

Publication date: 14 February 2018
Source:Cell Host & Microbe, Volume 23, Issue 2
Author(s): Andrew M.F. Johnson, R. William DePaolo
The initiating factors that trigger inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are poorly understood. In a recent paper, Yang et al. (2017) demonstrate that IBD-like syndrome in mice can develop as a consequence of recurrent pathogen infection. Pathogenic triggering of inflammatory disease is a re-emerging concept that has significant therapeutic implications.

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The initiating factors that trigger inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are poorly understood. In a recent paper, Yang et al. (2017) demonstrate that IBD-like syndrome in mice can develop as a consequence of recurrent pathogen infection. Pathogenic triggering of inflammatory disease is a re-emerging concept that has significant therapeutic implications.


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