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ReviewCell reports. Medicine2024

Mast cell modulation: A novel therapeutic strategy for abdominal pain in irritable bowel syndrome.

Samuel Van Remoortel, Hind Hussein, Guy Boeckxstaens

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Review in Cell reports. Medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Samuel Van RemoortelTranslational Research Centre for Gastrointestinal Disorders, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Hind HusseinTranslational Research Centre for Gastrointestinal Disorders, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Guy BoeckxstaensTranslational Research Centre for Gastrointestinal Disorders, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: guy.boeckxstaens@kuleuven.be.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most prevalent gastrointestinal disorders characterized by recurrent abdominal pain and an altered defecation pattern. Chronic abdominal pain represents the hallmark IBS symptom and is reported to have the most bothersome impact on the patient's quality of life. Unfortunately, effective therapeutic strategies reducing abdominal pain are lacking, mainly attributed to a limited understanding of the contributing mechanisms. In the past few years, exciting new insights have pointed out that altered communication between gut immune cells and pain-sensing nerves acts as a hallmark driver of IBS-related abdominal pain. In this review, we aim to summarize our current knowledge on altered neuro-immune crosstalk as the main driver of altered pain signaling, with a specific focus on altered mast cell functioning herein, and highlight the relevance of targeting mast cell-mediated mechanisms as a novel therapeutic strategy for chronic abdominal pain in IBS patients.

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Abdominal PainIrritable Bowel SyndromeMast CellsAnimalsHumans

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PMID39378882
PMCPMC11513802

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