Is Crohn's Disease an Immunodeficiency?
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Digestive Diseases and Sciences
- Vol. 45 (6), 1121-1129
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1005541700805
Abstract
The current hypothesis for the etiology of Crohn's disease proposes an excessive immune response, largely T-cell driven, possibly against endogenous bacteria. Standard therapy is therefore directed...Keywords
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