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Claudio Fiocchi1, Dimitrios Iliopoulos2

  • 1Department of Inflammation & Immunity, Lerner Research Institute, USA; Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Pharmacological Research
|May 20, 2020
PubMed
Summary

Chronic inflammatory diseases like inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) have emerged due to rapid environmental and lifestyle changes. Current treatments are insufficient, necessitating a network medicine approach for improved IBD therapy.

Keywords:
Artificial intelligenceDeep learningInflammatory bowel diseaseNetwork medicineOmicsSystems biology

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