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ArticleScientific reports2021

Serum biomarkers confirming stable remission in inflammatory bowel disease.

Christoph Kessel, Miha Lavric, Toni Weinhage, Markus Brueckner, Sytze de Roock, Jan Däbritz, Jakob Weber, Sebastiaan J Vastert, Dirk Foell

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Christoph Kessel *Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology, University Hospital Muenster, Domagkstr. 3, 48149, Muenster, Germany.
Miha Lavric *Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology, University Hospital Muenster, Domagkstr. 3, 48149, Muenster, Germany.
Toni WeinhagePediatric Rheumatology and Immunology, University Hospital Muenster, Domagkstr. 3, 48149, Muenster, Germany.
Markus BruecknerDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
Sytze de RoockDepartment of Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology and Center for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Jan DäbritzDepartment of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
Jakob WeberBÜHLMANN Laboratories AG, Schoenenbuch, Switzerland.
Sebastiaan J VastertDepartment of Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology and Center for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Dirk FoellPediatric Rheumatology and Immunology, University Hospital Muenster, Domagkstr. 3, 48149, Muenster, Germany. dfoell@uni-muenster.de.
University Hospital Münster · DEUniversity Medical Center Utrecht · NLBühlmann (Switzerland) · CHUniversity of Rostock · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) have a chronic-remittent course. Optimal management of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) relies on early intervention, treat-to-target strategies and a tight disease control. However, it is challenging to assess the risk of relapses in individual patients. We investigated blood-based biomarkers for the confirmation of disease remission in patients with IBD. We retrospectively analyzed samples of 40 IBD patients (30 UC, 10 CD) enrolled in a tight-control follow-up study. Half of the patients had a flare during follow up. Serum was analyzed for S100A12 as well as S100A8/A9 and for 50 further biomarkers in a bead-based multiplex assay. The concentrations of 9 cytokines/chemokines and S100A8/A9 significantly differed in IBD patients with unstable remission (before flares) when compared to IBD patients with stable remission. Although the number of patients was small, ROC curve analyses revealed a number of biomarkers (IL-1β, IL-1RA, IL-8, IL13, IL-15, IL-21, IL-25, IFN-β, CXCL9, CXCL10, CXCL11, Galectin-1, G-CSF and S100A8/A9) that were elevated in patients with later occurring relapses. While earlier studies on peripheral biomarkers in IBD are limited to only few analytes, our study using a broad screening approach identified serum biomarkers with the potential to indicate unstable disease control in IBD, which may help to steer individual therapies to maintain remission.

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AdultAgedBiomarkersComputational BiologyCytokinesEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayFemaleHumansInflammation MediatorsInflammatory Bowel DiseasesMaleMiddle AgedPrognosisProteomeProteomicsROC CurveBiomarkersCytokinesInflammation MediatorsProteome

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