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Abstract
The diagnosis and management of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), i.e., Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, still present a number of challenges. The fecal biomarker lactoferrin has been shown to be useful in the diagnosis and management of these diseases. This review includes a discussion of the current literature on lactoferrin as a biomarker of intestinal disease, detection of disease activity in IBD, comparison of lactoferrin to endoscopy and histology, lactoferrin measurement in pediatric IBD and lactoferrin as a biomarker for monitoring medical treatment in IBD. Copyright 2012 Prous Science, S.A.U. or its licensors. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22384454 DOI: 10.1358/dot.2012.48.2.1732555
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Drugs Today (Barc) ISSN: 1699-3993 Impact factor: 2.245