Gastrointestinal inflammation: focus on the vascular endothelium.
Ischemia of the intestine predominantly affects the small bowel and colon, and may ensue from a variety of causes, ranging from radiation enteritis to the use of drugs that affect the intestinal vasculature. Gut ischemia has historically been thought of as "large-vessel" disease, but microcirculatory pathology and ischemia-reperfusion injury is increasingly being implicated in gut infections and even in chronic idiopathic inflammatory processes involving the gut, such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.
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Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Alta., Canada.
D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans