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Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Future Therapies
1Department of Gastroenterology, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. s.j.vandeventer@amc.uva.nl
Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology
|May 11, 2002
Abstract:
Current medical therapies for people with inflammatory bowel disease are not satisfactory, and it is unlikely that improvement of traditional drugs will have a major clinical impact. The immunopathogensis of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are rapidly being deciphered, which is providing oppurtunities for radically innovative therapeutic approaches.