Results of the 4th Scientific Workshop of the ECCO (Group II): Markers of intestinal fibrosis in inflammatory bowel disease

Journal of Crohn's and Colitis - Tập 8 - Trang 1166-1178 - 2014
Florian Rieder1,2, Jessica R. de Bruyn3, Bao Tung Pham4, Konstantinos Katsanos5, Vito Annese6, Peter D.R. Higgins7, Fernando Magro8,9, Iris Dotan10,11
1Department of Pathobiology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
2Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
3Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Tytgat Institute for Liver and Intestinal Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
4Division of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy, Department of Pharmacy, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
5Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Ioannina, Medical School of Ioannina, Greece
6Division of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Careggi, Florence, Italy
7Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
8Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
9Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de Sao Joao, Porto, Portugal
10IBD Center, Department of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
11Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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