SEBM Spring 2011 Newsletter (PDF)

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Experimental Biology and Medicine

December Feature Article

Inflammatory cues modulate goblet cell products important for intestinal barrier function

In this paper a team of scientists at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign led by Rex Gaskins PhD have demonstrated that both microbial and host inflammatory facts modulate sulfomucin production in a human cell line, LS174T, that models intestinal goblet cells. Dr. Steve Goodman, Editor in Chief of EBM said "Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis (UC), the two primary types of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), afflict 0.1-0.5% of individuals in Western countries with approximately 1 million Americans suffering from the disease at a cost of over $2 billion. This impressive study identifies sulfomucins as potential targets for future therapies for chronic intestinal inflammatory disorders".

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