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Extracellular Matrix Components as Diagnostic Tools in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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: Received: 18 August 2021 / Approved: 23 August 2021 / Online: 23 August 2021 (13:20:23 CEST)
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Golusda, L.; Kühl, A.A.; Siegmund, B.; Paclik, D. Extracellular Matrix Components as Diagnostic Tools in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Biology 2021, 10, 1024. Golusda, L.; Kühl, A.A.; Siegmund, B.; Paclik, D. Extracellular Matrix Components as Diagnostic Tools in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Biology 2021, 10, 1024.
Abstract
Work from the last years indicate that the extracellular matrix (ECM) plays a direct role in vari-ous cellular processes including proliferation, migration and differentiation. Besides homeostat-ic processes, its regulatory function in inflammation becomes more and more evident. In in-flammation like inflammatory bowel disease, the ECM composition is constantly remodeled which can result in a structuring of fistulizing disease course. Thus, tracking early ECM changes might bear the potential to predict the disease course. In this review, we will provide an over-view of relevant diagnostic methods focusing on ECM changes.
Keywords
extracellular matrix; glycosaminoglycans; inflammatory bowel disease; ulcerative colitis; Crohn´s disease; fibrosis; stenosis; magnetic resonance imaging; elastography; histopathology
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology
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