Epithelial regeneration in inflammatory bowel diseases

276 Epithelial regeneration in IBD Introduction Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a gastroin-testinal disease featured by spontaneous inflamma-tion of the intestinal mucosa. Although its precise pathophysiology still remains to be elucidated, stu-dies have shown that IBD develops upon co-exis-tence of several risk actors, including genetic sus-

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