Feedback loop explains inflammatory effect on intestinal lining

Friday, March 19, 2010 - 09:08 in Health & Medicine

Signals released by immune cells during a bout of inflammatory bowel disease interfere with intestinal cells' ability to regenerate. Yet people with inflammatory bowel diseases have a significantly higher risk of developing colon cancer: a hyper-activation of growth in those same intestinal cells...

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