Cytokines in the cotton top tamarin model of human ulcerative colitis.
The cotton top tamarin is a unique model of human ulcerative colitis. This disease is clinically and histologically similar. It is also complicated in some cases by colon cancer. The cotton top tamarin provides an appropriate animal model for assessing new treatments in inflammatory bowel disease.
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John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.
D000818:Animals; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000378:metabolism*; D016207:Cytokines / Q000378:metabolism*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D006801:Humans; D012452:Saguinus
D016207:Cytokines