Smoking, humoral immunity, and ulcerative colitis.
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Smoking, humoral immunity, and ulcerative colitis.
Since ulcerative colitis predominantly affects non-smokers and ex-smokers we have examined the possibility that smoking modifies the humoral immune response to an antigenic challenge from the gut lumen. Gut lavage was used in healthy subjects and patients with ulcerative colitis, including both smokers and non-smokers. Antibodies in the intestinal fluid to Escherichia coli (five pooled serotype...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gut
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0017-5749
DOI: 10.1136/gut.32.9.1016