The interaction between host and external environment mainly occurs in the gastrointestinal
tract, where the mucosal barrier has a critical role in many physiologic functions ranging …

Abstract Background and Aims The inflammatory bowel diseases [IBD], Crohn's disease and
ulcerative colitis, are chronic, idiopathic gastrointestinal diseases. Although their precise …

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal
tract of uncertain origin, which includes ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) …

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic and relapsing inflammatory disease of the
gastrointestinal tract. Although the precise etiology of IBD remains incompletely understood …

The human superorganism is a conglomerate of mammalian and microbial cells, with the
latter estimated to outnumber the former by ten to one and the microbial genetic repertoire …

1H NMR spectroscopy of aqueous fecal extracts has been used to investigate differences in
metabolic activity of gut microbiota in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC)(n= 13), irritable …

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a multifactorial disorder that conceptually occurs as a
result of altered immune responses to commensal and/or pathogenic gut microbes in …

This study employs spectroscopy-based metabolic profiling of fecal extracts from healthy
subjects and patients with active or inactive ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) …

Serologic biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have yielded variable
differentiating ability. Quantitative analysis of a large number of metabolites is a promising …

Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis represent the two main forms of the idiopathic chronic
inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Currently available blood and stool based biomarkers …