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ReviewInflammatory bowel diseases2022

Immunological Regulation of Intestinal Fibrosis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Giorgos Bamias, Theresa T Pizarro, Fabio Cominelli

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In one paragraph

Review in Inflammatory bowel diseases, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed
6.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. IL1βJournal of translational medicine · 2026
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  7. The Role of microRNAs in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  9. TL1A Inhibition in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Pipeline Review.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2025
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  15. Pitavastatin reduces intestinal fibrosis in chronic colitis and inhibits colon fibroblast activation by enhancing MMP-9 expression via the IGF-1/IGF-1R pathway.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2025
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  19. The Diagnosis of Intestinal Fibrosis in Crohn's Disease-Present and Future.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Giorgos BamiasGastrointestinal Unit, Third Academic Department of Internal Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-5492-5717
Theresa T PizarroDepartments of Pathology and Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Fabio CominelliDepartments of Pathology and Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1571-1548
University School · USNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GR

Funding

The Cleveland Digestive Diseases Research Core Center (DDRCC)P30DK097948 · NIDDK · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI AMITABH CHAK · 2015 to 2026
$15.6M
NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK097948
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intestinal fibrosis is a late-stage phenotype of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which underlies most of the long-term complications and surgical interventions in patients, particularly those with Crohn's disease. Despite these issues, antifibrotic therapies are still scarce, mainly due to the current lack of understanding concerning the pathogenetic mechanisms that mediate fibrogenesis in patients with chronic intestinal inflammation. In the current review, we summarize recent evidence regarding the cellular and molecular factors of innate and adaptive immunity that are considered critical for the initiation and amplification of extracellular matrix deposition and stricture formation. We focus on the role of cytokines by dissecting the pro- vs antifibrotic components of the immune response, while taking into consideration their temporal association to the progressive stages of the natural history of IBD. We critically present evidence from animal models of intestinal fibrosis and analyze inflammation-fibrosis interactions that occur under such experimental scenarios. In addition, we comment on recent findings from large-scale, single-cell profiling of fibrosis-relevant populations in IBD patients. Based on such evidence, we propose future potential targets for antifibrotic therapies to treat patients with IBD.

Indexed as

ColitisCrohn DiseaseInflammatory Bowel DiseasesAnimalsFibrosisHumansIntestinesCrohn’s diseasecytokinesfibrosisimmunoregulationmyofibroblastsulcerative colitis

Identifiers

PMID34904152
PMCPMC8919810
OpenAlexW4200006954

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