Broad-spectrum antibiotics will alter the composition of the human gut microbiome, with transiently reduced bacterial diversity. Thus, it is reasonable to hypothesize that antibiotic-induced ...

Investigating the relationship between IL-1 and inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), researchers unveiled mesenchyme homeobox 1 (MEOX1), an IL-1-dependent transcription factor that is ...

A common antifungal medication may not just help with yeast infections, but also improve disease activity in some patients with IBD. | Health Sciences And Medical Research ...

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), encompassing ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), is a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract with a rising global burden.

Investigators at University Medical Center Utrecht (the Netherlands) and Yale University (USA) have isolated and characterized two new bacterial species from patients with inflammatory bowel disease ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) phenotype varies by race, but regardless of race, individuals born outside the United States develop IBD at later ages and have less aggressive disease, new data ...

Mendelian randomization (MR) permits the study of genetic variation unaffected by socioeconomic, environmental, and behavioral confounders. Single nucleotide polymorphisms pertinent to IBD (including ...

A commonly used systemic antifungal medication may help reduce symptoms in a subset of patients with inflammatory bowel ...

In a study published in Nature Immunology on January 6, a research team led by Prof. Qian Youcun from the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health (SINH) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...