Crohn's disease (CD) has been classically viewed as an overactive intestinal immune response to the normal constituents of the gut flora. Most therapeutic strategies to date have tried to suppress this overactive adaptive immune response. Recently, a novel, rather alternative therapeutic strategy has been proposed, wherein the approach is to stimulate the innate immune system with growth factors. This review will take a closer look at this unconventional hypothesis and the data that support it, and will place the information in the context of some of the other biological and experimental therapies currently under consideration for the treatment of CD.
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Medicine (Baltimore)
January 2025
Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China.
Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic inflammatory condition predominantly affecting the intestines, encompassing both ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease (CD). As one of the most common gastrointestinal disorders, CD's pathogenesis is closely linked with the intestinal microbiota. Recently, fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has gained attention as a potential treatment for CD, with the effective reestablishment of intestinal microecology considered a crucial mechanism of FMT therapy.
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January 2025
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center/Department of Colorectal Surgery, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Aliment Pharmacol Ther
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Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Eur J Clin Invest
January 2025
Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Background: The Crohn's disease exclusion diet (CDED) has been shown to induce remission in adult Crohn's disease (CD) patients. The aim of the study is to provide additional evidence-based validation.
Methods: We conducted an open-label, randomized trial on adult CD patients with mild-to-moderate symptoms to assess CDED efficacy in inducing symptomatic remission using Mediterranean diet as control.
Adv Ther
January 2025
Bristol Myers Squibb, 1-2-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0004, Japan.
Introduction: This retrospective claims analysis characterized contemporary ulcerative colitis (UC) treatment patterns and investigated the economic burden of UC in Japan.
Methods: This study used anonymized claims data in the Medical Data Vision database. Patients were included if they had a confirmed UC diagnosis and ≥ 1 claim of systemic treatment for UC (index date) between June 2018 and December 2022, in addition to continuous enrollment for ≥ 6 months before and ≥ 12 months after the index date.
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