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SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
Volume 5, Issue 190, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3004731
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- Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA [NIH-T32 1T32DK083251-01A1]
- GA Generic Assays GmbH, Germany
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In individuals with inflammatory bowel diseases, intestinal fibrosis is a serious clinical complication with no specific therapies. Patients develop bowel fistulae and strictures that usually require surgery and often reoccur. The main driver of gut fibrogenesis is believed to be chronic inflammation, which leads to mesenchymal cell recruitment and activation. Recent findings suggest that the environment-in particular, the microbiome-plays a critical role in this process.
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