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Identification and quantification of putative active constituents of huangqin decoction for ulcerative colitis treatment through the integration of chemical profiling, network pharmacology, and bioinformatics
Frontiers in Chemistry

Identification and quantification of putative active constituents of huangqin decoction for ulcerative colitis treatment through the integration of chemical profiling, network pharmacology, and bioinformatics

The study nominates specific compounds and molecular targets from a traditional herbal formulation that could be investigated as potential anti-inflammatory agents for ulcerative colitis, helping bridge chemical...

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The Roles of Complementary Structured Exercise and Physical Therapy in The Aging and Older Adult IBD Patient Care Team.
Current treatment options in gastroenterology

The Roles of Complementary Structured Exercise and Physical Therapy in The Aging and Older Adult IBD Patient Care Team.

Older adults with IBD are at higher risk of functional decline; SE and PT are low-risk interventions that may help reduce frailty, sarcopenia, fatigue, joint pain, and improve postoperative recovery and quality of life.

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T cell immunity to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in inflammatory bowel disease patients treated with anti-cytokine biologics.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

T cell immunity to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in inflammatory bowel disease patients treated with anti-cytokine biologics.

People with IBD and those on commonly used biologics may have different early T cell responses and faster waning after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, which could affect timing or interpretation of immune monitoring and booster...

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Disability among Palestinian patients with inflammatory bowel disease: evaluation using the IBD Disk and identification of associated factors.
Crohn's & colitis 360

Disability among Palestinian patients with inflammatory bowel disease: evaluation using the IBD Disk and identification of associated factors.

Disability related to IBD affects daily functioning and quality of life; identifying factors linked with higher or lower disability (vitamin D status, azathioprine use, smoking) can help patients and clinicians consider...

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Psychosocial Experience, Impacts and Management of Fatigue in Young People With Inflammatory Bowel Disease—A Systematic Review
JCC Plus

Psychosocial Experience, Impacts and Management of Fatigue in Young People With Inflammatory Bowel Disease—A Systematic Review

Fatigue is a common, impactful symptom in pediatric and young-adult IBD but is poorly defined and measured, limiting the ability to design age-appropriate supports. This review highlights gaps that affect patients' daily...

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Chitosan-montmorillonite composite protects the intestinal barrier in DSS-induced colitis mice by modulating tight junctions and the TLR4/NF-κB pathway
Journal of Functional Foods

Chitosan-montmorillonite composite protects the intestinal barrier in DSS-induced colitis mice by modulating tight junctions and the TLR4/NF-κB pathway

The paper reports a material that preserved barrier proteins and reduced inflammatory signaling in cell and mouse models of ulcerative colitis; this could point to a low-cost adjunct approach for protecting the colonic...

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Optimizing Patient‐Reported Outcome Measurement in an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Care Pathway: Results of the PROMOTION Study
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Optimizing Patient‐Reported Outcome Measurement in an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Care Pathway: Results of the PROMOTION Study

PROM completion is important for monitoring symptoms and disease control between visits. The study shows a single empowerment campaign produced a short‑term boost in PROM response but not sustained engagement,...

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Host-microbe Interactions in the Appendix of Children with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.
American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology

Host-microbe Interactions in the Appendix of Children with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.

Researchers found distinct microbial and host molecular features in the appendices of children with IBD, which could help explain local immune activation and guide future studies of disease mechanisms or biomarkers.

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HIL1 Debaryomyces hansenii The role ofin strain-level adhesion and immune recognition in.
mBio

HIL1 Debaryomyces hansenii The role ofin strain-level adhesion and immune recognition in.

The work links fungal strain variation to differences in adhesion and immune recognition, which could help explain why a normally food-associated yeast is found in Crohn disease ulcers and point to microbial features...

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E-cadherin acts as a dynamic switch in epithelial regeneration in inflammatory bowel disease.
American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology

E-cadherin acts as a dynamic switch in epithelial regeneration in inflammatory bowel disease.

If validated, transient modulation of epithelial E‑cadherin could become a new approach to promote mucosal healing — a key goal in IBD care. The findings point to epithelial repair biology rather than an approved patient...

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STUDY OF THE ADDED VALUE OF A TRANSMURAL EVALUATION IN PATIENTS WITH CROHN'S DISEASE UNDER BIOTHERAPY WITH CLOSE FECAL CALPROTECTIN FOLLOW-UP
ClinicalTrials.gov

STUDY OF THE ADDED VALUE OF A TRANSMURAL EVALUATION IN PATIENTS WITH CROHN'S DISEASE UNDER BIOTHERAPY WITH CLOSE FECAL CALPROTECTIN FOLLOW-UP

The study tests whether adding MRI-based transmural assessment to a fecal-calprotectin–guided (CALM) strategy improves the ability to keep people with Crohn’s disease in corticosteroid-free clinical remission and may...

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Concordance Between Inflammatory Activity Assessed by Enteric MRI With and Without Intestinal Distension Product in Patients With Ileal Crohn's Disease.
ClinicalTrials.gov

Concordance Between Inflammatory Activity Assessed by Enteric MRI With and Without Intestinal Distension Product in Patients With Ileal Crohn's Disease.

MR enterography is an important tool to measure transmural inflammation in ileal Crohn's disease, but many patients find the oral distension agents unpleasant. Demonstrating that non-distended MR enterography yields...

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Multivariate functional linear discriminant analysis with feature selection: an application to inflammatory bowel disease classification.
Biostatistics (Oxford, England)

Multivariate functional linear discriminant analysis with feature selection: an application to inflammatory bowel disease classification.

New analytical tools for longitudinal microbiome data can reveal time-varying microbial signatures tied to Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Identifying such biomarkers may eventually inform diagnosis, monitoring,...

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Pulmonary injury in inflammatory bowel disease: intestinal barrier disruption, gut-lung axis remodeling, and treatment-related lung toxicity.
Frontiers in immunology

Pulmonary injury in inflammatory bowel disease: intestinal barrier disruption, gut-lung axis remodeling, and treatment-related lung toxicity.

Lung involvement is an underrecognized extraintestinal complication in IBD and can reflect disease activity, altered gut–lung immune signaling, or medication toxicity — distinguishing the cause is important for...

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MANAGEMENT OF CLOSTRIDIOIDES DIFFICILE INFECTION IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS OF ANTIBIOTIC EFFICACY.
Arquivos de gastroenterologia

MANAGEMENT OF CLOSTRIDIOIDES DIFFICILE INFECTION IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS OF ANTIBIOTIC EFFICACY.

CDI is a common and important complication in people with IBD; which antibiotic is used can affect recurrence risk and subsequent need for surgery. This review pools available studies and suggests vancomycin may reduce...

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Visceral Leishmaniasis-Associated Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in a Patient With Crohn's Disease in Therapy With Anti-TNFα: A Challenging Diagnostic Case Report.
Case reports in gastrointestinal medicine

Visceral Leishmaniasis-Associated Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in a Patient With Crohn's Disease in Therapy With Anti-TNFα: A Challenging Diagnostic Case Report.

HLH is a rare but serious complication in immunosuppressed IBD patients; visceral leishmaniasis can trigger HLH and may be overlooked outside endemic areas. Early bone marrow assessment can speed diagnosis and treatment.

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Automated readings of imaging reports by natural language processing (NLP) supplemented by clinical data predict disease course in children and adults with Crohn’s disease: report from the epi-IIRN
Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Automated readings of imaging reports by natural language processing (NLP) supplemented by clinical data predict disease course in children and adults with Crohn’s disease: report from the epi-IIRN

Based on the title and source metadata, this appears to be a clinical study related to Crohn's disease, Inflammatory bowel disease, and Imaging. The original article is from Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology.

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Dehydrodiisoeugenol ameliorates DSS-induced ulcerative colitis by suppression of cellular senescence through inhibiting AKT and activating GSK3B.
International immunopharmacology

Dehydrodiisoeugenol ameliorates DSS-induced ulcerative colitis by suppression of cellular senescence through inhibiting AKT and activating GSK3B.

The study identifies a compound (DDIE) that reduced cellular senescence and improved colitis in a mouse model by modulating AKT and GSK3B, suggesting a new avenue for drug development in ulcerative colitis focused on...

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Quaternized chitosan-based double-network hydrogel for oral precise delivery of Sinapic acid in ulcerative colitis therapy.
International journal of biological macromolecules

Quaternized chitosan-based double-network hydrogel for oral precise delivery of Sinapic acid in ulcerative colitis therapy.

The study describes a novel hydrogel designed to deliver sinapic acid directly to the inflamed colon and release drug in response to a reducing environment—an approach that could improve targeted oral therapies for...

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Chronic paternal exposure to low-dose OBS reprograms progeny's intestinal cholesterol metabolism and increases IBD susceptibility.
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)

Chronic paternal exposure to low-dose OBS reprograms progeny's intestinal cholesterol metabolism and increases IBD susceptibility.

The study links paternal exposure to an emerging PFAS chemical (OBS) with epigenetic changes in sperm that may increase offspring susceptibility to colitis, highlighting a possible environmental pathway relevant to IBD...

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External validation of population pharmacokinetic models of adalimumab in adult patients with inflammatory bowel disease: towards model-informed precision dosing.
Journal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics

External validation of population pharmacokinetic models of adalimumab in adult patients with inflammatory bowel disease: towards model-informed precision dosing.

Personalizing adalimumab dosing could reduce underexposure, treatment failure, and immunogenicity for people with IBD. Validated popPK models are a key step toward reliable model-informed precision dosing in clinical...

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Atriplex portulacoides L. derived phytochemicals mitigate acetic acid induced colitis in rats via orchestrating Nrf2/Keap1 signalling and LncRNAs gene expression
Inflammopharmacology

Atriplex portulacoides L. derived phytochemicals mitigate acetic acid induced colitis in rats via orchestrating Nrf2/Keap1 signalling and LncRNAs gene expression

The study identifies a plant extract that reduced inflammation and oxidative stress and altered molecular pathways (Nrf2/Keap1, NF-κB) and lncRNA expression in a rat colitis model—potential leads for future IBD research...

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Tetramethylpyrazine ameliorates ulcerative colitis via B. pseudolongum-driven taurine metabolism and M2 macrophage polarization
Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Tetramethylpyrazine ameliorates ulcerative colitis via B. pseudolongum-driven taurine metabolism and M2 macrophage polarization

The work suggests a microbe–metabolite–immune pathway (B. pseudolongum → taurine metabolites → M2 macrophages) that could point to future microbiome- or metabolite-targeted therapies for ulcerative colitis, which may be...

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Retinal microvascular alterations detected by optical coherence tomography angiography in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver

Retinal microvascular alterations detected by optical coherence tomography angiography in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

IBD may involve small-vessel changes beyond the gut. If reproducible, retinal microvascular alterations detectable by OCTA could offer a non-invasive window into systemic microvascular involvement in IBD.

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A spatially organized immune-stromal program drives the fissure-to-fistula continuum in Crohn's disease.
Journal of Crohn's & colitis

A spatially organized immune-stromal program drives the fissure-to-fistula continuum in Crohn's disease.

The study maps cellular and molecular programs that drive transformation of fissures into fistulas in Crohn's disease, pointing to early remodeling processes and specific molecular pathways that could be targeted to...

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H7F ameliorates DSS-induced colitis through restoration of intestinal barrier function and inhibition of IL-17/NF-κb signaling.
Frontiers in pharmacology

H7F ameliorates DSS-induced colitis through restoration of intestinal barrier function and inhibition of IL-17/NF-κb signaling.

The study suggests a herbal formula (H7F) may protect intestinal barrier function, modulate the gut microbiome, and suppress IL-17/NF-κB inflammation in a mouse colitis model—mechanisms relevant to IBD pathophysiology.

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Cell cycle dysregulation: a central hub in colitis-associated colorectal carcinogenesis.
Frontiers in immunology

Cell cycle dysregulation: a central hub in colitis-associated colorectal carcinogenesis.

The review connects molecular cell-cycle changes to the progression from chronic IBD to colorectal cancer, pointing to pathways and cell-cycle regulators that could become prevention or treatment targets for...

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