Key Genetic Component May Be Linked to More Aggressive Cases of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Key Genetic Component May Be Linked to More Aggressive Cases of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (1 of 2)

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Fluorescent imaging revealed the PAI-1 protein (red) was abundant in colon biopsies from patients with inflamed ulcerative colitis (UC). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Mar. 6, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by G.E. Kaiko at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and colleagues was titled, "PAI-1 augments mucosal damage in colitis."

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G.E. Kaiko<i> et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2019)

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