Inflammatory Bowel Disease (eBook)

Derek J. Chadwick and Jamie A. Goode are editors for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Crossroads of Microbes, Epithelium and Immune Systems and other scientific titles.

Chair's Introduction (Jewell).

Progress toward identifying inflammatory bowel disease
susceptibility genes (Rioux).

Phenotype-determining genes in inflammatory bowel disease
(Ahmad).

Pharmacogenetics of inflammatory bowel disease (Kelleher et
al).

Bacterial milieu and mucosal bacteria in ulcerative colitis
(Macfarlane et al).

Defensins and mucosal protection (Mahid and Cunliffe).

Intestinal mycoplasma in Crohn's Disease (Roediger).

Kong Probiotics, prebiotics and antibiotics in inflammatory
bowel disease (Cummings and Choon).

The eipthelium in inflammatory bowel disease: potential role of
endocytosis of junctional proteins in barrier disruption (Ivanov et
al).

Apoptosis or necrosis - colonic epithelial cell survival
(Gibson).

Genetic aspects of intestinal permeability in inflammatory bowel
disease (Takeuchi et al).

Animal models of intestinal inflammation: clues to the
pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (Powrie and Uhlig).

Homing of intestinal immune cells (Uhlig et al).

Anti-TNF therapy in Crohn's Disease (Ghosh).

Index of contributors.

Subject index.

"This is a well written book that provides a succinct, easy to read summary of the current concepts in IBD. The discussions following each chapter are invaluable." (Doody's Book Review Service)