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Inflammation and inflammatory bowel disease

• Changing pattern of paediatric inflammatory bowel disease in northern Stockholm 1990–2001 (11 September, 2003)

  H Hildebrand, Y Finkel, L Grahnquist, J Lindholm, A Ekbom, J Askling
• Activated platelets are the source of elevated levels of soluble CD40 ligand in the circulation of inflammatory bowel disease patients (11 September, 2003)

  S Danese, J A Katz, S Saibeni, A Papa, A Gasbarrini, M Vecchi, C Fiocchi
• Short chain fatty acids stimulate epithelial mucin 2 expression through differential effects on prostaglandin E₁ and E₂ production by intestinal myofibroblasts

  (11 September, 2003)

  L E M Willemsen, M A Koetsier, S J H van Deventer, E A F van Tol
• Inducible CD40 expression mediates NFκB activation and cytokine secretion in human colonic fibroblasts (11 September, 2003)

  C M Gelbmann, S N Leeb, D Vogl, M Maendel, H Herfarth, J Schölmerich, W Falk, G Rogler
• Neutral endopeptidase (EC 3.4.24.11) downregulates the onset of intestinal inflammation in the nematode infected mouse (11 September, 2003)

  G Barbara, R De Giorgio, V Stanghellini, R Corinaldesi, C Cremon, N Gerard, C Gerard, E F Grady, N W Bunnett, P A Blennerhassett, S M Collins