Treating inflammatory bowel disease in mice with engineered probiotic
Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital report they have developed an engineered yeast that can induce multiple effects for treating IBD.
Posttraumatic stress symptoms afflict patients with IBD
urvey results supported prior research that found one-quarter to one-third of patients with inflammatory bowel diseases report posttraumatic stress symptoms linked to their disease experience.
Fitness With Crohn’s or Colitis
If you are in the middle of a flare-up or hit by a wave of fatigue, exercising might be the last thing you feel like doing.
A gut feeling
Scientists link genetic makeup of bacteria in the human gut to several human diseases.
Support Groups- Do I or Don’t I
From the very time Support Groups were introduced as a means of peer support, the decision facing people whether to the meeting has been the source of many unwanted ‘butterflies’…to go or not to go!
Podcast: Perivascular nerve dysfunction in inflammatory bowel disease
What is the effect of vascular function in the pathogenesis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)?
Patients’ experiences and challenges in living with inflammatory bowel disease
The purpose of this study was to explore patient experiences in living with IBD and uncover factors that contribute to psychological distress.
You’ve Got Guts – May Is Crohn’s & Colitis Awareness Month
May is Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Month People living with Crohn’s and colitis urged to speak out and #FlushTheStigma By 2022 it’s expected more than 100,000 people in Australia will be living with Crohn’s and colitis
Sarcopenia and vitamin D deficiency in patients with Crohn’s disease: Pathological conditions that should be linked together
Sarcopenia is a prevalent condition in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD), representing an independent predictor factor for the development of major postoperative complications.
Wisdom, loneliness and your intestinal multitude
It may take guts — or more precisely, a diverse gut microbiome — to achieve wisdom and fend off loneliness. Or perhaps it’s the other way around, report UC San Diego researchers.
Defects in a specific cell type may cause ulcerative colitis
There are many variants of "goblet cells" in the intestines and they seem to have different functions, according to a new study from the University of Gothenburg.
Gluten intake not linked with IBD risk
Researchers have found an unexpected synergy between a T-cell stimulatory protein — the ICOS ligand — and interleukin-10, an immunoregulatory cytokine, to prevent inflammatory bowel disease in mice.