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Infliximab and ulcerative colitis

2006

Expert Opin Biol Ther. 2006 Apr;6(4):401-8. Infliximab and ulcerative colitis. Cottone M, Mocciaro F, Modesto I. Università di Palermo, Istituto di Medicina Generale e Pneumologia, Via Trabucco 180, Palermo, Italy. dickens@tin.it Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha is an inflammatory cytokine that plays a main role in the inflammatory process underlying inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Despite the fact that the cytokine profiles associated with ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) are classically considered different (a Th2 pattern in UC and a Th1 pattern in CD), there are several evidences in vitro and in vivo that TNF-alpha has an important role in UC. For this reason, inflixi…

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