Colonoscopy was repeated, which now showed rectal ulcerations and nodular lesions, pancolitis, and friability of the ileocecal valve (Figure 1); the terminal ileum could not be intubated.

There are two main forms: Crohn s disease, which can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract, but is most common in the colon and terminal ileum; and ulcerative colitis, which is a mucosal ...

In this study, the authors use the zebrafish to investigate how the microbiome affects a specialized gut cell called the lysosome rich enterocyte. They use a combination of functional assays for ...