Is smoking Associated With Extra-intestinal Manifestations in Inflammatory Bowel Disease?
There is a robust dose-dependent association between active smoking and EIMs in both CD and UC patients. Smoking cessation was found to result in a rapid reduction of EIM prevalence to levels encountered in never smokers.
Our findings revealed that NK1.1+T cells that survive at an early stage after irradiation play an important role in the balance of the immune responses at a late stage after irradiation.