Autophagy is a core molecular pathway for the preservation of cellular and organismal
homeostasis. Pharmacological and genetic interventions impairing autophagy responses …

Macroautophagy/autophagy is a cellular catabolic process that results in lysosome-
mediated recycling of organelles and protein aggregates, as well as the destruction of …

A general consensus exists that IBD is associated with compositional and metabolic
changes in the intestinal microbiota (dysbiosis). However, a direct causal relationship …

Key challenges for human genetics, precision medicine and evolutionary biology include
deciphering the regulatory code of gene expression and understanding the transcriptional …

Interleukin-2 (IL-2), the first cytokine that was molecularly cloned, was shown to be a T cell
growth factor essential for the proliferation of T cells and the generation of effector and …

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic gastrointestinal disease whose incidence has
risen worldwide in recent years. Accumulating evidence shows that oxidative stress plays an …

Genetic association studies have identified 215 risk loci for inflammatory bowel disease,,,,,,,,
thereby uncovering fundamental aspects of its molecular biology. We performed a genome …

IBD is a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract encompassing two main
clinical entities: Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Although Crohn's disease and …

The intestinal epithelium can be easily disrupted during gut inflammation as seen in
inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease. For a long …

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is associated with risk variants in the human genome and
dysbiosis of the gut microbiome, though unifying principles for these findings remain largely …