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ReviewTranslational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine2021

Epithelial wound healing in inflammatory bowel diseases: the next therapeutic frontier.

Cambrian Y Liu, Candace M Cham, Eugene B Chang

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Review in Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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42citing papers in PubMed
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Cambrian Y LiuDepartment of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Electronic address: Cambrian.Liu@gmail.com.
Candace M ChamDepartment of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Eugene B ChangDepartment of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Electronic address: echang@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu.
University of Chicago · US

Funding

ULTRASTRUCTURE AND CYTOMORPHOLOGY COREP30DK042086 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI CHANG, EUGENE B · 1990 to 2025
$29.8M
Host and microbial basis of human ulcerative colitis and pouchitis: Identification, role, mechanisms, and resource development of host susceptibility and pathobiont factorsRC2DK122394 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI CHANG, EUGENE B · 2019 to 2023
$10.2M
Exploring the role, regulation, and antimicrobial function of Paneth cell peptides PYY and NPY in maintaining gut microbial commensalism and innate immune defenseR01DK113788 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI EUGENE B CHANG, Joseph F PIERRE · 2017 to 2026
$4.6M
Mutualistic relationship between Hsp25/27 and gut microbes as a major and essential determinant of mucosal healing and microbial fitness following intestinal injuryR01DK047722 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI CHANG, EUGENE B · 1993 to 2020
$4.3M
Probing short and long term consequences of Small and Large Bowel Microbiota Transplants on Host Physiology: Implications for the development of future live biotherapeuticsR01DK138072 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI EUGENE B CHANG, Kristina Brooke Martinez-Guryn · 2024 to 2026
$2.1M
NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK042086NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK047722NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK113788NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK138072NIDDK NIH HHS RC2 DK122394
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with one of the many chronic inflammatory disorders broadly classified as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) now have a diverse set of immunomodulatory therapies at their disposal. Despite these recent medical advances, complete sustained remission of disease remains elusive for most patients. The full healing of the damaged intestinal mucosa is the primary goal of all therapies. Achieving this requires not just a reduction of the aberrant immunological response, but also wound healing of the epithelium. No currently approved therapy directly targets the epithelium. Epithelial repair is compromised in IBD and normally facilitates re-establishment of the homeostatic barrier between the host and the microbiome. In this review, we summarize the evidence that epithelial wound healing represents an important yet underdeveloped therapeutic modality for IBD. We highlight 3 general approaches that are promising for developing a new class of epithelium-targeted therapies: epithelial stem cells, cytokines, and microbiome engineering. We also provide a frank discussion of some of the challenges that must be overcome for epithelial repair to be therapeutically leveraged. A concerted approach by the field to develop new therapies targeting epithelial wound healing will offer patients a game-changing, complementary class of medications and could dramatically improve outcomes.

Indexed as

Wound HealingCytokinesHumansInflammatory Bowel DiseasesIntestinal MucosaRegenerationStem CellsCytokines

Identifiers

PMID34126257
PMCPMC8380699
OpenAlexW3166695044

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