Smoking and nicotine in inflammatory bowel disease: good or bad for cytokines?

Smoking has either a beneficial or harmful effect on the course and recurrence of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease respectively. Transdermal application of nicotine had similar effects in ulcerative colitis and therefore was considered to be an effective basic drug which could be further...

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Main Author: F. J. Zijlstra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 1998-01-01
Series:Mediators of Inflammation
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09629359891072
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spelling doaj-00f3ce84195b413080b07555ba505ff72020-11-24T22:18:44ZengHindawi LimitedMediators of Inflammation0962-93511466-18611998-01-017315315510.1080/09629359891072Smoking and nicotine in inflammatory bowel disease: good or bad for cytokines?F. J. Zijlstra0Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, PO Box 1738, Rotterdam 3000 DR, The NetherlandsSmoking has either a beneficial or harmful effect on the course and recurrence of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease respectively. Transdermal application of nicotine had similar effects in ulcerative colitis and therefore was considered to be an effective basic drug which could be further developed in the search for new compounds in the treatment of acute exacerbations of corticosteroid resistant ulcerative colitis. In this communication the short-term use of nicotine in ulcerative colitis is reviewed.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09629359891072nicotinesmokingCrohnn's diseaseulcerative colitiscytokines.
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author F. J. Zijlstra
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Smoking and nicotine in inflammatory bowel disease: good or bad for cytokines?
Mediators of Inflammation
nicotine
smoking
Crohnn's disease
ulcerative colitis
cytokines.
author_facet F. J. Zijlstra
author_sort F. J. Zijlstra
title Smoking and nicotine in inflammatory bowel disease: good or bad for cytokines?
title_short Smoking and nicotine in inflammatory bowel disease: good or bad for cytokines?
title_full Smoking and nicotine in inflammatory bowel disease: good or bad for cytokines?
title_fullStr Smoking and nicotine in inflammatory bowel disease: good or bad for cytokines?
title_full_unstemmed Smoking and nicotine in inflammatory bowel disease: good or bad for cytokines?
title_sort smoking and nicotine in inflammatory bowel disease: good or bad for cytokines?
publisher Hindawi Limited
series Mediators of Inflammation
issn 0962-9351
1466-1861
publishDate 1998-01-01
description Smoking has either a beneficial or harmful effect on the course and recurrence of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease respectively. Transdermal application of nicotine had similar effects in ulcerative colitis and therefore was considered to be an effective basic drug which could be further developed in the search for new compounds in the treatment of acute exacerbations of corticosteroid resistant ulcerative colitis. In this communication the short-term use of nicotine in ulcerative colitis is reviewed.
topic nicotine
smoking
Crohnn's disease
ulcerative colitis
cytokines.
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09629359891072
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