Drug decreases gut leakiness associated with ulcerative colitis

Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 10:20 in Health & Medicine

A research team led by biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has found that a drug approved by the FDA to treat rheumatoid arthritis and ulcerative colitis can repair permeability defects in the gut’s epithelium. Affecting roughly 1 million Americans, ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease of the large intestine in … Continue reading Drug decreases gut leakiness associated with ulcerative colitis

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