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From serum metabolites to the gut: revealing metabolic clues to susceptibility to subtypes of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
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Li F, Wang Z, Tang T, Zhao Q, Wang Z, Han X, Xu Z, Chang Y, Li H, Hu S, Yu C, Chang S, Liu Y, Li YAbstract
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a common chronic inflammatory bowel disease characterized by diarrhea and abdominal pain. Recently human metabolites have been found to help explain the underlying biological mechanisms of diseases of the intestinal system, so we aimed to assess the causal relationship between human blood metabolites and susceptibility to IBD subtypes.