Environment and the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Environment and the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), which consists of Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis, are chronic inflammatory conditions of the gas-trointestinal tract. In genetically susceptible individuals, the interaction between environmental factors and normal intestinal commensal flora is believed to le...

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Main Authors: Alexandra Frolkis, Levinus A Dieleman, Herman W Barkema, Remo Panaccione, Subrata Ghosh, Richard N Fedorak, Karen Madsen, Gilaad G Kaplan, on behalf of the Alberta IBD Consortium
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/102859

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