Screen LibraryCrohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis : From Epidemiology and Immunobiology to a Rational Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approach /
This new edition is a unique combined resource for physicians and scientists addressing the needs of both groups. In addition to stimulating exchange and collaboration and shortening the path between discovery and application of new knowledge, the book helps clinicians understand new therapeutic con...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33703-6 |
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This new edition is a unique combined resource for physicians and scientists addressing the needs of both groups. In addition to stimulating exchange and collaboration and shortening the path between discovery and application of new knowledge, the book helps clinicians understand new therapeutic concepts from their origins. The volume serves as a comprehensive guide to the current diagnostic modalities, including enhanced imaging techniques such as MRI and CT enterography, virtual colonoscopy, ultrasound, and endomicroscopy, as well as conventional and complex immunomodulatory principles. Th |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9783319337036 |
| Index Number: | RC799 |
| CLC: | R57 |
| Contents: | Foreword.- Preface.- Environmental Factors in the Epidemiology of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.- The Immune System in Health.- Understanding the Epithelial Barrier in IBD.- Intestinal Microbiology and Ecology in Crohn s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis.- The Immune System in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Antimicrobial Peptides.- Vascular Responses to Intestinal Inflammation.- Immunobiology of Human Dendritic Cells in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.- Immunobiology of T-cells in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.- Immunology of B-cells in Inflammatory Bowel Disease -- Immune Cells: Monocytes and Macrophages.- |